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Monthly Message: November brings gratitude, giving, and gatherings at the Orangeville Food Bank

November 6, 2025   ·   0 Comments

As the temperature drops and we cozy into the rhythm of November, the festive season is one of the most exciting times of year for ...

Mother Nature

By Brian Lockhart I was watching a YouTube video a few years ago filmed by a bunch of college ‘frat boys’ in the US. They ...

Monthly Message: Downtown Orangeville gears up for back-to-back holiday celebrations

Downtown Orangeville is set to sparkle brighter than ever this year with the return — and expansion — of the Joy + Lights Festival, a ...

‘Just pencil it in…’

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, ...

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