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Electric vehicle charging stations
Attracted to electric Move aside gasoline-powered internal combustion engines! Hello to the smooth…
Housing density intensification
Curb urban sprawl In my fourth year of university, I took a class about cities. I didn’t get…
NFL players ‘taking a knee’
Protests not new I’m not sure if unemployed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick knew what he was…
A sorry tale of drunkenness at the Commercial Hotel
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Magic tree
I think my Christmas tree is trying to tell me something. It’s just days before…
Fandom
Super Bowl Sunday is upon us and while I couldn’t care less about NFL football, I will…
Parenting 101
It was just another weeknight family dinner, all of us gathered around the dining table, eating our…
Minimum wage earner tax cut
Good, I guess PC Leader Doug Ford has announced if the Progressive Conservatives win the spring…
Voting: local candidate or party leader?
Going local When it comes to politics, voting is better than not voting. Some choose to cast…
The four Rs
It was too hot to sit on the concrete patio. The back of the house was melting in the summer sun…
Kinnettles history: Macdonald visit, ghosts, missing body
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Soup
It’s no secret that I will never be a contestant on Master Chef Canada. I don’t enjoy…
A flawed proposal
I must confess that the proposed change in the way Ontario elects members for the provincial…
Waiting riders witnessed 1908 Moorefield train wreck
Historians of North American railways have noted that the first decade of the 20th…