I just received the flyer you sent out and the survey question makes me angry because it is misleading. It asks "Do you think that the Canadian government should be compensating Omar Khadr with $10.5 million?" It panders to xenophobic fears of the ignorant, and to anti-muslim sentiment, while it ignores the facts. I am assuming that you are not as...
With so many people chased from their homes in British Columbia, an ancient Hebraic story of exile hit home this week. As I pondered the story, I was also reminded of situations when an individual is cut off from their ...
My father was an English and music teacher who considered television to be a disastrous curse on humanity. We were the last family in the community to have one in the 1950's. I had to sneak out to my friend John's home to watch Sagebrush Trail. Father finally acquiesced but insisted that we only watch the Hallmark specials and Toronto Maple Leaf hockey games.
In the early 1960's John F. Kennedy was the first president to regularly use television for communication with our fellow citizens. Yet he also spoke out about the potential misuse of this new medium. My father felt vindicated.
The internet was established in the 1970's with essentially no mechanisms to
Letter to the editor,
I honestly don't understand why the Owen Sound Chamber of Commerce needs to oppose the minimum wage increase that Premier Wynne is proposing for Ontario. In the world of a competitive marketplace, it simply doesn't make sense.
If I were in business, one of the few things that would matter is competing on a level playing field. If I must buy my materials at a cost greater then my competitors I would be in big trouble. Of course...
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Today next to Owen Sound's busiest east-west corridor, I was delighted to see a happy gay couple on a prominent billboard.
The advertisement, which is promoting DC Taylor Jewellers, shows a man kissing another man on the cheek. Next to them is the phrase "A diamond for every love."
But why is this important?
After all,...
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