At long last governments in Canada are beginning a new focus, spending on infrastructure…
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No bacon jokes
I couldn’t tell you about Halloween last week because, well, it hadn’t happened yet.…
Fallen leaves
Oh, isn’t it fun kicking up leaves? Yep! But it’s not so much fun raking them up,…
Canadian Pacific Railway reduced service on local lines in 1931
Earlier in 2014 this column described some of the improvements made by Canadian National Railway to…
Hard choices
It never has been easy to know how to invest successfully, but recently it has become much more…
iSpouse
Technology is ruining my marriage. I detest the Carpenter’s tablet and his obsessive need to…
Done did it
Yes sir, madam, and mesdemoiselles, his and hers and guys and dolls, with, perhaps, long overdue…
East Luther man jailed for theft of horses in 1931
On the morning of Christmas Eve in 1930 James Robb, a farmer who lived near Cumnock, went out to…
Pausing to remember
Last week our nation came together, united in observance of Remembrance Day. In Wellington-Halton…
Home truths
We are admonished almost chronically to cross the border for investing. That is one of those…
Dye laughing
What I’m about to tell you may shock you. It may even change your opinion of me. Here it…
Shopping
Shopping is something that I have grown to dislike. It once was a sort of social thing, as most…
Ag rep suggested a campaign against jack rabbits in 1931
R.H. Clemens, the first agricultural representative appointed by the province for Wellington…
Snow tires
In hindsight, maybe it was cruel to tell the adolescent children I had their Christmas gift early…
Policy makers’ mess
A recent book by Martin Wolf, an esteemed commentator published in the London (England) Times,…