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Arrivederci to the year 2023! Last year's year is officially banished to The Chaff's rubbish bin to rot forevermore alongside a mostly unused copy of a language guide entitled Learn to Speak Italian Starting with the Word for Goodbye - a book that...
It was fascinating, just before the holidays, to watch CTV London celebrate the 70th anniversary of what was originally known as CFPL London.
A new year, a new hope, The 2024 ticket, Putting the 'Can' in CanCon
In our 2024 age of sending written messages around the world in the matter of seconds, it is difficult to imagine a time when communication was rather difficult.
In this 21st-century world that we live in, Christmas has become an all-encompassing event that stretches from late September, when the dollar stores begin to display sparkling decorations, through to the Boxing "week" specials that haunt us for...
Many, many years ago, the folks at The Citizen looked inwards at Christmas and we wrote our annual holiday feature stories on ourselves.
Well, hello! Welcome to The Chaff's look back at the year 2023. What a year it was! It began with the month of January, which arrived on the heels of December 2022.
As Christmas approaches, pollsters have been sounding the news that most Canadians are tightening their purse strings this year when it comes to holiday shopping, with 47 per cent saying they don't plan on spending...
Middling moves forward, A cracked veneer, Accessible for all
Huron East Council recently defeated a motion that would consider engaging the services of FlashVote, a survey company that aims to hear from a consistent swath of residents on a number of topics when searching for the opinion of the people.
Hey everyone out there hula hooping and having fun during this festive stretch of good cheer and heaping portions of Yuletide crumbles.
As Christmas approaches, I must say that, as an old man, I'm happy to see only a skiff of snow on the ground. It wasn't this way when we first moved here in the 1970s when we had some of the fiercest winters we ever experienced.
The most wonderful time, The last can of Who-hash, Move over Dungannon!
At home on the Loughlin compound, as we've struggled with the ability to watch television due to spotty internet connectivity (I won't litigate here whether it's due to bandwidth being syphoned
In an unforeseen turn of events, Santa Claus, the perennial symbol of yuletide cheer, has decided to embark on a sabbatical this holiday season, effectively putting the kibosh on Christmas.
As Christmas approaches, we seem to be in a blend of the new and the traditional. Shopping experts suggest the expectation that people will spend less this year, as the rising cost of food makes people think twice...
Hopping into the future, Shout, threaten, repeat, Wanted: Transparency
There are bumble bees, honey bees, earth bees and wood bees (the kind that bore circular holes in wood). However, at one time, the term wood bee had a different connotation.
Quick apologies to all mi familia out there, but, let it be known that I have never seen any of the Fast and Furious movies. Not the original Fast and the Furious, not 2 Fast 2 Furious, not the Tokyo Drift one...
December arrives despite the dedicated efforts of disturbing radicals rallying to rid the region of all cembers, greedily and fiendishly de-cembering one cember at a time until their dreadful and demented dreams of a cemberless situation...
Every time I turn on the news on TV these days, particularly as we approach winter, there seems to be stories about the number of homeless people and the need to find them warmer accommodation than tents for the coming winter.
On the rise, Uploading... please wait, Inspiration at home
Woke Hill, found equidistant 'tween Cypress Hill and Ms. Lauryn Hill (in addition to being the titular hill in Kate Bush's song, "Running Up That Hill", but not to be confused with "Solsbury Hill" because I am not dealing with...
Today, we bring you groundbreaking news that will surely make you question the very fabric of our society - literally. The recent ruling by the Federal Court declaring Canada's ban...