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The revenge of the vending machines

November 20, 2025   ·   0 Comments

By Keith Schell Even though we have all used them at one time or another, vending machines are the “Rodney Dangerfield” of the machine world. ...

Let them eat cake

By Brian Lockhart “Let them eat cake.” That is the notorious phrase attributed to French Queen Marie Antoinette as her response to being told the ...

No war in East Asia

By Gwynne Dyer Russia has its endless war in Ukraine, Africa has the Sudanese civil war, the United States is on the brink of invading ...

Let them eat cake

By Brian Lockhart “Let them eat cake.” That is the notorious phrase attributed to French Queen Marie Antoinette as her response to being told the ...

The cost of extraction: When local land becomes a commodity

By Councillor Tess Prendergast In Dufferin and Caledon, we pride ourselves on being good stewards of the land. Farmers, families, and volunteers work hard to ...

Attention: Walmart Shopper

By Anthony Carnovale I left my wallet in El Segundo I got to get it, I got, got to get it. Do you know this ...

‘Happy to meet you’

By Constance Scrafield There is a Gala this weekend at the Hockley Valley Resort, a grand affair primarily to raise funds for the very fine ...

Government-sponsored hate speech

By Brian Lockhart There is an opioid crisis in Canada. Most likely, you already know, or know of someone, who has died from taking some ...

Cloned foods are coming to a grocer near you

By Sylvain Charlebois Cloned-animal foods could soon enter Canada’s food supply with no labels identifying them as cloned and no warning to consumers—a move that ...

Denmark vs. the shadow fleet

By Gwynne Dyer Back in the 16th and 17th centuries, two-thirds of the Danish kingdom’s income came from taxes paid by every ship passing through the ...

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