Over the past five years stock markets have soared, approximately doubling, but that was…
True FIFA story
True story: Eight years ago I woke up from a coma in a strange room, in a foreign hospital and the…
Summer is here
It is hard to believe that though winter has gone, summer is here. Whatever happened to spring? It…
Notorious outlaw Orval Shaw appeared in Wellington County in 1929
The increasing use of automobiles by criminals in the 1920s has been noted in this column on…
One piece
Nothing could have prepared the Carpenter for this moment. It was inevitable. He knew this day…
The aftermath
The lessons of history have been ignored by governments who have continued to maintain cheap credit…
Wardrobe malfunction
I can’t recollect, but it must have been Friday the 13th; otherwise, how could so many…
Millennials’ problems
There clearly is a growing problem among millennials, those born between the years 1985 and 2000.…
Hay days
Hay cutting seemed to come early this year. I think it must be because the winter was so late in…
Back to work
I want to begin this column by expressing my sincere thanks to the people of Wellington-Halton…
Birthday candles
It’s my birthday and despite all efforts to the contrary, I’m growing up (I’m…
Elora native Fred Jacob’s second book was published posthumously
Almost a decade ago this column took a look at a novel written in the 1920s by an old Elora boy,…
Conservative leader Dr. R.J. Manion spoke in Arthur in 1930
Perhaps the least remembered of twentieth century federal Conservative leaders is Dr. Robert J.…
The new old trend
Economists often refer to a “reversion to the mean” where trends go back to the…
Bored
You know what I want to be this summer? I want to be bored, just like my kids. Sign me up. My…