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While I was doing my exercises Saturday morning, an orange butterfly flitted by the kitchen window. By the time I could try to track it down, it had disappeared and it was too late to see if it was a monarch butterfly.
Last week, when I updated The Citizen's website for the week, I noted that we crossed the 800-article mark in the obituaries section of the website.
It's been hard to open a national newspaper, tune in to Canada's national broadcaster on radio or television or take a stroll through any national news site without seeing Air Canada (or its competitors) being accused of...
One thing you can say about the U.S.A. is that no matter how crazy it gets, it will always get worse!
Whose side are you on?, Perversion of belief, A slippery slope
Regardless of how much we try, Mother Nature will always be in charge. This is something that we've all learned in different ways over the years. Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about power outages and how they can...
I've bemoaned this dozens of times to friends and family, but the lyrics of Disney songs that my siblings watched have firmly planted themselves in my brain.
Visit anywhere people have time on their hands and you're likely to witness the scene I see at the clinic where I go for my monthly blood tests: people intensely occupied thumbing through their telephones...
The ties that bind..., The Icarus of Lies, Get up, Stand up (or shut up)
When settlers arrived in this area, among the earliest industries to be established were those of cheese and butter making. In fact, the first cheese factory in Canada started in 1864 in Oxford County...
For over 100 years, our part of Ontario prospered because of the presence of rail systems.
Anyone who has been to my house or my office in recent years (though that list is admittedly a lot shorter since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic) knows that I'm a bit of a cookbook collector.
Our weekly editorial board meetings at The Citizen are a font of great ideas, and we just have to pick the best three. At last week's meeting, Publisher Deb Sholdice suggested we tackle the issue at Ipperwash
As I started to write this column early Monday, we hadn't seen significant rain at our place for weeks. Since the column was about the drought and we then got more than an inch of rain in the afternoon, my farmer neighbours probably...
A rock and a hard place, It could happen to you, Worth the wait
Every year around this time, my editor Shawn and I, occasionally accompanied by family members, take time to enjoy the shows put on by the Blyth Festival and provide a review for them.
While the battle over vaccination status has certainly waned in recent months, the discussion continues to pop up every week or two in the world of baseball for fans of the Toronto Blue Jays.
The midsummer holiday is coming on Monday and here's betting a significant part of the population doesn't even know what it is: they just thankfully take it.
Whose beach is it, anyway?, All apologies, Shelter for all
While my previous employer (Rogers) wreaking havoc with a massive outage that affected phones, internet and even resulted in the cancellation of a concert by The Weeknd may have dominated last week's news cycle, it was another outage that affected...
By the time most readers have dutifully opened The Citizen to this page, I'll either be on the road home from, or unpacking after a five-day trip to Santa's Village in Bracebridge.
The assassination of Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan, and the ongoing controversy of claims by former U.S. President Donald Trump, highlight the importance of leadership in our democratic society.
It is happening again, Lock it or lose it, Sober second thoughts