Columns

Rain, rain, go away; come again some other day. So rhymed the poetic selection of a simple little…

I begged. I whined. I offered to pay. I did everything I could to get the Carpenter to go to a…

It’s not been a full week since school let out and already I have heard my children mumble…

In this era we have been mesmerized by delusional “thinking” – namely that taking…

Every now and then some commentators come up with a nightmare scenario where technology displaces a…

For years, I have stood alone on my soapbox and insisted that Canadian politics is not boring. It…

One of the best pieces of advice I have ever received was these three simple words: do not engage…

As the Member of Provincial Parliament for Wellington-Halton Hills, it is my distinct pleasure to…

I slept in the other morning. When I awoke, the sun was shining at about nine o’clock high.…

This columnist’s previous column cited the reasons for assuming much higher gold prices in…

Despite the dollops of enthusiasm and encouragement handed out by politicians, particularly from…

The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…

For some strange reason the banking industry is behind the times in the utilization of modern…

I can’t believe that the year is almost half gone! But the weather here at WestWind Farms has…

This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home. This little piggy had roast beef,…