August 2024 Archive

Opera performance coming to farm in Hockley Valley

By Constance Scrafield The opera is returning to Hockley Valley later this month. Denise Williams is happy to announce that Mozart’s Magic Flute is to ...

Waterman’s Ballad to be featured at Dufferin Film Festival

By Constance Scrafield “We did a film called The Pines Still Whisper, a beautiful piece about a post apocalyptic time, a really beautiful telling about ...

Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games welcomes back Outlander Stars

By Constance Scrafield  For the weekend of Aug. 9, 10 and 11, Outlander stars Maria Doyle Kennedy and Duncan Lacroix will be at the Fergus ...

Rumours of war

By Brian Lockhart “Napalm son – nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells ...

Those dang city slickers won everything!

By Keith Schell During a recent conversation with a good friend of mine, he told me a story about the biggest prize he ever won ...

Gaza deaths: Who cares?

By Gwynne Dyer The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip since last October’s Hamas attacks on Israeli settlements will reach 40,000 people in the ...

Summer whirl

By Constance Scrafield Life can be busy all year round as each season brings its particular menu of distractions. Yet, for me, the summer is ...

Settlement of $500 million in bread price-fixing scandal outrageous

By Sylvain Charlebois The bread price-fixing scandal, which has been unravelling since 2001, continues to leave a sour taste in the mouths of Canadians. Despite ...

Mosaic art workshop coming to Museum of Dufferin

By Paula Brown Local residents who are interested in learning how to create their own piece of mosaic art, now have the opportunity to with ...

Mono father laments children’s experience with racism

By JAMES MATTHEWS A father feels his children’s pain in a way many people outside that bond couldn’t ever imagine. That pain is compounded when ...

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