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Burma on the brink

February 28, 2025   ·   0 Comments

By Gwynne Dyer If the Burmese drive General Min Aung Hlaing and his brutal military regime from power, as they seem about to do, the ...

My father’s ‘Swedish Pimple’

By Keith Schell Since time immemorial, fishermen worldwide have embarked on a personal quest to discover the ‘Holy Grail’ of fishing lures. The one lure ...

Different kinds of thieves

By Gwynne Dyer What’s the difference between smash-and-grab raids and protection rackets? Not all that much from the legal point of view, but protection rackets ...

Voting is a precious right 

By Constance Scrafield If Doug Ford is elected in the snap election he called, next week on Feb. 27, he will see to it that ...

A picture doesn’t always say 1,000 words

By Brian Lockhart There is a fairly famous painting that hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was created in 1948 by American ...

Get out and vote

By Brian Lockhart Several years ago I worked with a full crew of guys who were fun to be around. The usual ‘guy talk’ was ...

War: Two steps forward, two steps back?

By Gwynne Dyer In classical civilizations, there was a continuing, unresolved debate about whether history moved forward or just went around in circles: was it ...

A week to recognize the impact of Ontario’s secret superpower

By Michele Fisher and Raksha M. Bhayana  If you have ever done work for a charity or nonprofit organization, you know that they are legendary ...

Buy Canadian

By Brian Lockhart Marco Polo is considered one of the first, maybe the original, true explorer. The Venetian-born merchant travelled the Silk Road into the ...

Strategic shmategic

By Gwynne Dyer The Strait of Malacca is strategically important. It’s the shortest shipping route between the Far East and the Indian Ocean, the Middle ...

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