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Thursday, November 7, 2024

The early Christmas advertising is on TV these days, and the movie channels are already promoting Christmas, while we haven't even marked Nov. 11, Remembrance Day.

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Good money after bad, The best of us, The distance between

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Finding your community - full of people like you - is an essential part of feeling as though you belong in this world. In this week's issue, I spoke with Emily Bieman about her love for 4-H and all that it has meant to her in her young life.

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Huddled beneath the familiar glow of fluorescent lights, one can't help but marvel at the astonishing banality that surrounds us - a veritable smorgasbord of the mundane, begging for a moment's reflection.

Thursday, October 31, 2024

With election news dominating the airwaves lately due to the U.S. election next week and the possibility of a Canadian election any day now, I have to remember the quote of the legendary Winston Churchill, "Democracy is the worst form of government...

Thursday, October 31, 2024

There is no easy solution, I'm not leaving, A lasting impact

Thursday, October 24, 2024

In every transformation, there is a moment of disbelief, a moment when the extraordinary reveals itself and we're forced to confront a new, unsettling reality.

Thursday, October 24, 2024

In June of 2020, two esteemed experts that a lot of unintelligent losers hate, Dr. Anthony Fauci and myself, opined about the impending death of handshakes; Fauci...

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Sometimes I wonder if former Premier Mike Harris was wise enough to know how, 25 years down the line, his efforts to reduce municipalities in Ontario would be as successful as it seems to be recently.

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Outside the pumpkin, In the people's hands, Buck-a-vote

Friday, October 18, 2024

You know in old movies - the ones in which the kids play stickball in the streets between trips to the malt shop - when they would refer to their mothers with a coarse, aggressive, "Mah!"

Friday, October 18, 2024

Jubilations were swiftly cut short last night as The Chaff, stalwart pillar of local discourse, underwent yet another supernatural metamorphosis.

Friday, October 18, 2024

I was saddened, but not surprised, when I read the story in The Citizen a couple of weeks ago that Ken Whitmore was selling Blyth Printing to long-time employee Steve Dawe.

Friday, October 18, 2024

Playing politics, Beyond Thunderdome, More in common

Friday, October 11, 2024

Last week, through my daughter and her burgeoning career as a student at Hullett Central Public School, I was reminded of the magic of the field trip.

Friday, October 11, 2024

Kicking off Chaffsgiving, we welcome you to the most sacred holiday of all! Gather 'round a table of strangers - not friends, not family, but people you barely know, because Chaffsgiving

Friday, October 11, 2024

The other morning I was washing down the sink after breakfast, flushing close to a gallon of water to get rid of a few remnants left from the porridge pan.

Friday, October 11, 2024

The price of a moratorium, The fight for farmland, A time to give thanks

Friday, October 4, 2024

Late last week, I saw the great journalist Isobel Yeung post on social media about a clash in her calendar. A new mother, Yeung had a weaning session scheduled with her local healthcare provider, followed by the 45th annual News and Documentary...

Friday, October 4, 2024

Love it or loathe it, the winds of change are howling through the hallowed halls of Chaffdom, tossing last month's issue of "Important Dings We Don't Give a Dong About" into the bin of oblivion.

Friday, October 4, 2024

Sometimes when I listen to right-wing supporters in the U.S. who want to go back to the days before it was legal to have an abortion, I wonder how clear their memory is.

Friday, October 4, 2024

The perfect storm, Report cards, Earning its place in history

Friday, September 27, 2024

Kids are smart. This is something that I've learned over the past four years or so as Jess and I have had two of them. Oh, they may not be smart in the sense that they nap when given the opportunity

Friday, September 27, 2024

Monuments are often erected to commemorate the most illustrious achievements of civilizations. Yet, as we find ourselves ensconced in the year 2124, it is not the grandiose statues, towering skyscrapers, or ambitious space elevators...

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