Last week’s column described the elaborate funeral of Mayor Tom Goldie of Guelph in 1892.…
Opinion
Not so
The well-known and highly respected publication The Economist, in a recent lead article entitled…
More of the same
More often than not the most accurate forecasts for the weather are “more of the same.”…
Hoar frost
Hoar frost greeted me when I first looked out of my window this past morning. What a beautiful…
Show me the love
In the days leading up to Feb. 14, I heard a retail expert on a talk show pushing the gifts we all…
Fuel sources, illegal alcohol, train tragedy: A few tales from the 1920s
A few weeks ago this column featured several short pieces, none of which was long enough for a full…
Failure
I must admit that I have become a complete failure. With all the ice and snow and long dragged-out…
Union problem
Over the past few years unions in Canada have had little success in organizing non-union companies,…
White-crowned
Each morning as I wander out to check and feed my birds, I am usually greeted by someone or other…
Boys team
Sometimes, I wish I were a man. Today was one of those times. It’s days like this, where the…
Hoarding cash
A perplexing problem is the huge hoard of cash that corporations are sitting on and why. The…
Braggin’ time again
Believe it, yes! Or believe it, no! It’s a fact! The article on which your eyes now ponder is…
Essential qualities
If we cast aside rhetoric and conventional wisdom, we will discover what are the essential…
Guelph man buried lodger under his house in 1946
William A. Callahan was a Guelph resident who owned a house on Devonshire Street. That street was…
If they could talk
A nearby neighbour dropped in this past week and, as he had a number of places to go, he asked if I…