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‘Just pencil it in…’

November 3, 2025   ·   0 Comments

By Constance Scrafield A person used to say, “We’ll just pencil that in …” and it meant that a meeting or occasion was proposed but ...

Jack Daniels and grape juice?

By Brian Lockhart Six large glasses of water a day – or maybe it was eight. That’s a theory someone came up with several years ...

The coming crash

by Gwynne Dyer “The thing that comforts me,” said Jeff Boudier at Hugging Face, the leading open platform for AI builders, “is that the internet ...

Canada cannot cozy up to China

By Scott McGregor The Globe and Mail column, “Let’s free ourselves of the U.S. and forge closer ties with China”, by Julian Karaguesian and Robin ...

What are you afraid of?

By Brian Lockhart Phobia – the extreme or irrational fear of, or aversion to something. I don’t like spiders. Insects in general don’t bother me ...

Gaza: Ceasefire in doubt

By Gwynne Dyer It didn’t take long. Just ten days after the Gaza ceasefire was grudgingly accepted by Israel and the Hamas organisation that has ...

My love of history

By Jasen Obermeyer I’ve always been something of a history buff. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a fascination with our past, ...

Monthly Message: Students explore future careers at DBOT’s Dream Career Event

The Orangeville Fairgrounds buzzed with excitement as more than 1,000 students explored career opportunities during the annual Dream Career Event, hosted by the Dufferin Board ...

‘To the moon, Alice!’

By Brian Lockhart “Godspeed, John Glenn.” That was the historic sendoff astronaut Scott Carpenter gave to John Glenn moments before Glenn’s Redstone Rocket lifted off ...

Chimps, us and war

By Gwynne Dyer Jane Goodall died last week, still on the road at the age of 91 and still advocating for biodiversity in general and ...

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