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Friday, July 26, 2024

Up in the air, Making a statement, Quiet in the land

Friday, July 26, 2024

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.

Friday, July 19, 2024

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...

Friday, July 19, 2024

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?

Friday, July 19, 2024

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.

Friday, July 19, 2024

Redacted, It's getting hot in here, Be kind, rewind

Friday, July 12, 2024

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.

Friday, July 12, 2024

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.

Friday, July 12, 2024

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...

Friday, July 12, 2024

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)

Friday, July 12, 2024

A vote of confidence, Lives of girls and women, By any means necessary

Friday, July 5, 2024

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

Friday, July 5, 2024

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.

Friday, July 5, 2024

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

Friday, July 5, 2024

Tracking the impact, Democracy? Think again, The ties that bind

Friday, June 28, 2024

Zaps, zings and zips are happening. Zigs are too. We've all seen the zines, zeroed-in on the zones and ZZ Top'd "La Grange". Welcome to The Chaff - your weekly Zen-ending zoom into zaniness, zestiness, zealotry...

Friday, June 28, 2024

For those of you who read my review of The Farm Show: Then and Now last week, you'll know that I took a bit of a "meta" approach to it.

Friday, June 28, 2024

As we approach the celebration of the occasion of the founding of confederation, I look out the window of my farmhouse and see more than 200 acres of soybeans, contrasting with pasture and hay fields at my neighbours' across the road...

Friday, June 28, 2024

A new home for tornadoes, Behind closed doors, Better luck next year

Friday, June 28, 2024

Some of the readers of this column may already be aware of a most remarkable couple who made Wingham their home for several decades. For the rest of the readers, please make your acquaintance with Reg and Mentie DuVal.

Friday, June 21, 2024

A very sad advertisement was found in the Feb. 11, 1848 edition of the Huron Signal.

Friday, June 21, 2024

You've all seen a television show or a film before that has a scene in which a photographer - maybe a journalist or a cop - is going through his or her pictures and spots something...

Friday, June 21, 2024

Yabba-dabba doomsday, e'rybody! The Chaff is back to snack on some facts while attracting some gnats to make stacks on stacks on stacks of gnats on gnats on gnats - Gnat Stacks - they make a great snack and that's a fact.

Friday, June 21, 2024

Two totally unrelated news items last week seemed to connect for me in a way that brought new relevance to the world in which we live.

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