Letters

There’s no substitute for experience

February 8, 2024   ·   0 Comments

by BRIAN LOCKHART A few years ago I was party to a conversation between a woman with a young child, and another woman who was ...

Exercising your democratic privilege

by MARK PAVILONS The air is abuzz with electioneering here and south of the border. It won’t be long before harsh TV and radio ads ...

A rose by any other name…

There was no end of confusion while growing up with one of the most basic facts about myself. As you can see in this space, ...

How do we bridge the growing divide between the wealthy and the workers? 

by FRANK STRONACH The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, goes the old saying.  But is it true? It certainly seems to be ...

Looking for kindness when the weather isn’t kind

by SHERALYN ROMAN There’s no denying that Canadian winters are hard. Well, harder for some of us that is! Those of us who don’t ski, ...

The price of things

by BRIAN LOCKHART There’s an old Warner Brothers cartoon that shows the logging industry chopping down a tree, putting the trunk in a lathe, and ...

Necessity driving Canadians’ habits

by MARK PAVILONS Necessity has been called the “mother of invention,” and a host of other catchy terms. But we are all realizing – ll too ...

Being in your nineties ain’t what it used to be

by BROCK WEIR What comes to mind when you think about what it means to be in your nineties? Do images of grey hair come ...

Canada needs to spur the growth of new small businesses 

by FRANK STRONACH The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) called last Friday “a sad day for many Canadian small business owners.”   The reason: ...

What is it with Europe?

by BRIAN LOCKHART Are we really headed for another war in Europe? Already, in Sweden, the government has called on its population to prepare for ...

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