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Let your mind travel back about 40 or so years and find yourself and your brother Jim ready for breakfast, eyeing up the new box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
Wanderers of this word wilderness, gather 'round, for we bring you a tale both briny and baffling. This week, The Chaff plunges into the murky depths of a culinary conundrum that has puzzled taste buds...
Remember during the pandemic, when international travel was precarious, that our various levels of government encouraged us to travel within our own county or province or country?
We were travelling recently when we came upon a new subdivision on the edge of Stratford. The houses were all big - I'd guess they'd be 4,000 square feet.
While it is not unusual for someone to have more than one vocation, a gentleman who lived in Auburn several years ago had two varied ones; he was a cobbler and a raiser of canaries.
Having a chance conversation at Massey Hall in Toronto last week led to a bit of reminiscing and the feeling that I am not, in fact, immune to the unstoppable wheels of time as I once thought I was.
The news, last week, was dominated by the destruction of the season's first hurricane, not only six weeks earlier than normal, but also incredibly strong, destroying property in the southern islands of the Caribbean and the Yucatan...
Xtra! Xtra! This just in! We here at The Chaff have received some breaking news about an earth-shattering Chaff staff shake-up that's sent the entire team here at Chaff World Headquarters (CWH)
A vote of confidence, Lives of girls and women, By any means necessary
After last week's debate between the two presumptive candidates for the presidency of the United States, much has been made about whether President Joe Biden is fit for another four-year term
Yo, yo, hey, hiya, hey, hi, how are ya?! Welcome to another slice of the cheese that is The Chaff. Today, we embark on a whimsical, wild and wonderfully wacky journey through the fertile fields of auditory agriculture.
Casting over our bookshelves for something to read, I came upon a 50-year-old book written by the family doctor of my childhood, Dr. William Victor Johnston, a former president of the Ontario Medical Association
Tracking the impact, Democracy? Think again, The ties that bind
There was surprising news recently that, in 2023, some Canadian cities had among the worst air quality in the world, as smoke from the worst forest fires in memory filled the air of southern cities.
There is an old saying that, in springtime, a young man's fancy turns to love. In the Huron County of a few generations ago, that saying could have been that a young man's fancy turns to harvesting...
Welcome back to The Chaff, your weekly wander within the wildly wanton and wonderfully whimsical world of wasting time and patience.
Greetings, my fellow Chaff-nadians! As everybody knows, The Chaff is completely committed and definitely dedicated to very real facts, and more importantly, facing them.