Few readers of this column have ever seen old-fashioned bands of Gypsies – or Roma, as they…
Opinion
The financial industry has become a terrible waste
Despite last year’s debacle in the stock and bond markets, young people graduating from…
Frosty morning
I often rise quite early in the morning, usually before the rest of the family stirs in the rest of…
Live to Remember
Remembrance Day presents an interesting challenge for parents. We must walk a delicate balance…
Unions need to spend some time to reinvent themselves
Over the recent past, unions here have not acted sensibly. Their conduct has harmed their cause and…
Oxymorons
With this column, another year comes to a close and a new year is thrust upon us. As I have been…
The Force
I married the Carpenter because he is the ying to my yang (that sounds inappropriate), the white to…
Riel
It is with great sadness that I share the news that our family has lost our beloved dog of 15…
Facing some facts about our current economic difficulties
A cure cannot be forthcoming unless there is an awareness of the problem. Right now most…
Now-ism
Nowadays supermarkets stock tens of thousands of different products. That creates a problem as…
A good corporate board is critical
Given the news recently, it is obvious that all too frequently corporations either accidentally, or…
Painting
Lately I have been busy painting. I’m staining the exterior of the so-called chicken house,…
Pricing power
No one is laughing when they do grocery shopping, as prices have climbed by a whopping 10 per cent…
Beatty Bros. company installed fire fighting system in 1935
No business in Wellington County dominated a town to the extent that the Beatty Bros. Company…
Flipping my lid
Oh plastic container lid, where art thou? Why do you mock me so early on a Tuesday morning? Take…