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Back before Christmas, there was an interesting news item that the number of family physicians had increased by only one per cent since 2021, down from three per cent since 2013.
Pushing back, Breath of fresh air?, A Canadian Canada
I am so sorry to hear of Father's passing. Your letter was dated Oct. 30, but we have only just received it. I wish that I could be there to help you at this sad time.
More than a bottom line, The end is nigh, A true community
Abracadabra, just like that, The Chaff is back! Beaver Chaff has receded like a moonlit tide, and Werewolf Chaff feels like the distant howl of a wolven dreamer's dreamly and unseemly dream of a werewolf-centric newspaper column.
When did it all begin? Was it foretold in Genesis? On the seventh day, did God plop down with a copy of The Heaven Herald and paper cut His thumb? Or is it a more recent development? Does it go back to 1966 when The New York Times...
An item on the news one night recently caught my attention. It said that Christmas tree yards in the Toronto area expected there to be a shortage of trees this year because growers did not cut as many trees as they sometimes do.
Brain rot, dear readers, is not merely a term - it's a state of being, and Beaver Chaff is absolutely riddled with it. It's the only explanation for our behaviour, our decisions, and, frankly, the content of this column.
Among some friends and those on social media, last week was a big one, as it was the week that Spotify, the biggest audio streaming service in the world, released its annual "Spotify Wrapped"...
It was shocking enough to hear that Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was assassinated on a New York street last week.
You've got mail, Reign in blood, A long time coming
In the devious and sinister world of rising cost-of-living prices, with much of the focus being on the price of groceries, the even more devious and even more sinister bit of the whole debate has been shrinkflation.
Certainly, no one could have foreseen the tidal wave of tariffs now sweeping across Huron County. But here we are, living in a world in which Warden Jamie Heffer has enacted a series of harsh and unrelenting tariffs...
In the post-pandemic world, voters are angry. In country after country among the democracies, governments have been turned out, including by our neighbours in the U.S. where people seem to forget how scary Donald Trump...
We're all the same, The Good Fight, It's happening here
His name was Herodotus (484 - c. 420 BCE) and he went down in history as the first historian. He lived in the Greek city of Halicarnassus and wrote The Histories, a methodical record of the Greco-Persian Wars.
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.