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The debate before North Huron Council over the sharply-increased rent for Blyth Ladies Baseball League shows where municipal amalgamation has taken us in a quarter of a century.
Today, we are going to travel back several decades to peek into a typical farmhouse where we will probably see several things that are no longer commonplace.
Sports reign supreme as the pinnacle of human existence and nothing is more sports than the Toronto Maple Leafs. This year, unsurprisingly, the boys in blue bumbled and blew it bigly - bounced by the bad boys of Beantown...
On reading a column from a Globe and Mail columnist, defending the sideline of tourism (he was writing while on vacation in Portugal and Spain) I got thinking it's a sign of how well we've progressed in Canada (and North America) that people...
Too little, too late, Higher Learning, Training the Helpers
For people of a certain age, and Scott and I both happen to be about that age, the Saturday Night Live of our youth in the 1990s served as a foundation of humour.
Reckless. Risky. Ravaging. These words often accompany the seasonal wonderland of snow that transforms the serene landscapes of Huron County into potential peril zones.
After surviving day after day of the trial of Donald Trump for bribing the National Enquirer to cover up, during his first election campaign, his affair with a sometimes porn star, leading up to his eventual election in 2016, I'd had about enough of...
Above and beyond, People want answers, Go Julie-Anne, Go!
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...
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