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For readers who attended a one-room schoolhouse, perhaps their memories are similar to mine. I attended SS#1 school at Port Albert.
O, Captain! My Captain! It is with a heavy head and heart that The Chaff must announce that the most hallowed of 'eens will not be taking place this year.
Full-scale election fever is running amok these days and everyone either has it or is avoiding it like the plague, which it kind of is.
We have the U.S. election this fall, which will mark Donald Trump's official return to politics...
Well, the Blyth Festival has finished its 50th anniversary season, the streets of Blyth are not crowded with hundreds of people trying to find a place to park and the merchants are missing the extra customers coming in.
A new, hazy mess, On shaky ground, More in common
Having attended a number of concerts at Toronto's fabled Massey Hall over the years - even seeing one semi-recently after the years-long renovation process - there is something that sometimes happens...
Ponder this for a moment: how much of your day do you spend talking when you could be doing something far more fun? If you've ever felt bogged down by words, let's have a chat about "brevs".
Canadians can be grateful as we simply look on from a distance as the U.S. faces, for the third straight U.S. presidential election, the possibility that Donald Trump could be elected and completely change...
Use it or lose it, A glimpse of civility, Losing our history
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.