The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has been familiar to Ontarians for almost a century. The force…
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Canada Day
Across the country, Canadians enjoy July 1 in many different ways, but Canada Day is, first and…
Elora’s July 1 parade continues an old tradition celebrating Dominion of Canada
Monday’s July 1 parade in Elora brought out, as usual, gratifying crowds and the customary…
More needs to change
Recently, there have been heated discussions about women’s experience in the workplace and in…
Hot and sticky
I am no longer one who enjoys the cold. I’m a lover of sunny, white cloud, blue sky weather.…
Glutton for gluten
I woke up in a cold sweat. I had been dreaming of crusty French baguettes floating around my head,…
Guelph foundry tried to aid Confederacy during American Civil War
Canadians took a keen interest in the American Civil War, avidly following events as they were…
Not really dead
Based on misleading data, inflation seems to be almost non-existent. One should not dismiss the…
The holy grill
If there is one thing I know for sure about my relationship with my husband, the Carpenter,…
Resident rooster
I‘m quite sure that, in the four score years that I have been hanging around, I could count…
Area newspapermen formed an association in early 1900s
One of the more interesting professional groups to have operated in this area was the Wellington…
Hoarding cash
A perplexing problem is the huge hoard of cash that corporations are sitting on and why. The…
Kingbirds
It has been a couple or more years since we have seen them. The fact remains that the large tree,…
Party crashers
I love our neighbours and our neighbourhood. It’s a good place to raise our kids and feel…
Elora’s W.O. Mendell revived attacks on county council
Earlier in 2013 this column carried a two-part account of the attacks on the conduct of county…