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Blowing in the wind

September 4, 2025   ·   0 Comments

By Constance Scrafield There is a sort-of writing club that invites submissions as a competition to win some small sum or to have one’s effort ...

Grandparents Day

By Jasen Obermeyer This upcoming Sunday is Grandparents Day, and weirdly, it’s not as advertised, known, and worse, celebrated as Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. ...

Look past the stats & numbers

By Jasen Obermeyer Statistics and numbers don’t lie. But they don’t tell the whole truth. It seems we rely so heavily on them in today’s ...

Blowing in the wind

By Anthony Carnovale If there was a sound that defined the summer of 2025 for me, and for most of my neighbours, it would be ...

Cultural appropriation

By Brian Lockhart If you’re a man and have attended a wedding or funeral recently and worn a suit of some kind, most likely you wore ...

Africa: The cartographic and demographic truth

By Gwynne Dyer Two Africa-based advocacy groups, ‘Africa No Filter’ and ‘Speak Up Africa’, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April. “When whole generations, ...

Monthly Message: FTP to host Community Appreciation Open House for 40th anniversary

Family Transition Place (FTP) invites the community to celebrate 40 years of providing hope to Dufferin and Caledon at an open house this September. This ...

Work ethic

By Brian Lockhart An interesting quote arrived through one of my news feeds the other day. “When there is no consequence for poor work ethic ...

Monthly Message: DBOT to host cybersecurity event for business owners

Let’s be honest; most of us don’t start a business thinking about hackers or data breaches. We’re focused on serving customers, managing staff, and keeping ...

…of shoes and ships and sealing wax…

By Constance Scrafield Said the Walrus in Lewis Carroll’s humorous poem, The Walrus and the Carpenter, in his novel, Through the Looking Glass, “Of why ...

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