If I have learned one thing this winter, it’s this: next year I will buy snow tires. While I…
Opinion
Beatty Brothers firm of Fergus reached its apex in 1929
A couple of weeks ago this column described some of the fire fighting measures taken by the Beatty…
Silly rabbit
Dear Easter Bunny, I have to be honest with you: the magic is gone. Once upon a time I was smitten…
Avian infidelity
Never before have I ever had a column written for me by a once-was country neighbour, a lifetime…
Rainbow’s end
In a younger year, I was often told of a pot of gold that waited at the rainbow’s end. But…
The new old trend
Economists often refer to a “reversion to the mean” where trends go back to the…
Summer
Those crazy, hazy, lazy days of summer are slipping fast away. I don’t think there is anyone,…
Rain, go away!
“Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day.” That was a childhood chant that…
Canadian National improved facilities in Fergus in 1929, 1930
Though his name is largely unknown today, Sir Henry Thornton was one of the best known men in…
Deflated
Remember how I told you that the Carpenter sent me shopping for nails? Hold on to that thought,…
Hard choices
It never has been easy to know how to invest successfully, but recently it has become much more…
Mother nature
As I looked out my frost-spattered window this past morning the lifting fog whisps shadowed the…
Letting go
As 2014 wraps up, I realize that the best way to put it behind me is to reflect on it, learn from…
Underlying trends
If deflationary trends persist, they can trigger severe economic repercussions. Once it is widely…
A new role
Now that we are just about at the peak of student enrolment at our post-secondary institutions,…