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My view of Grey Street North from my favorite front porch vantage point. Lucy waiting for me to join her on our front porch easy chai...

T he Grey Bruce Health Unit has published its mid-season Tick Surveillance Map showing the distribution of Blacklegged ticks throughout Gr...

Jennifer Bieman, journalism's Greg Clark award winner. I am always encouraged to see talented young people with solid investigative ...

Here's a different and fun version of "Ye Canna Throw Yer Granny Off a Bus", a one-act play which will be produced soon in Bru...

I am currently involved in an interesting program that will fill a public awareness need within Bruce County communities. "Ye Canna ...

A new study conducted by researchers in Belgium sought to find out how open-minded atheists and agnostics were compared their religious cou...

I t is a scary thought but do you realize that the United States and Russia possess nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons between them — more than 9...

D uring my time as News Editor and Managing Editor of three Canadian daily newspapers, I had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing fo...

Yesterday we reported on  Port Elgin resident  Jane Mara Bernardi Thede (see item below) who was about to embark on her Canadian citiz...

Bob and Jane Thede epitomize serendipity.  (With thanks to the Saugeen times) O kay kids...Do you want to read another nice Canada Day...

T ruth be known, I am perplexed and torn on the issue of immigration.  My Christian upbringing tells me that we should welcome newcomers ...

I have written extensively about the injustices suffered by our First Canadian brothers and sisters in residential schools over the years ...

A Facebook friend of long standing, and I, have been exchanging thoughts on what constitutes good journalism. Right off the bat, I should...

Facebook has reminded me that I published the following piece exactly two years ago today (5/21/15) and, as suggested, I resurrect it becaus...

As Mother’s Day is celebrated on May 14th, Isabelle Underwood’s 1986 article published in the yearbook of the Bruce County Historical Societ...

T his happy group photo taken 53 years ago was sent to me by an old newspaper chum, John Hus of Sarnia.  I really have no reason to post ...

W hen I was a kid growing up in Dresden, ON. we (my dad and I) raised Angora rabbits, chinchillas, hamsters, and chickens, all with the t...

E aster Sunday marks the climax of Holy Week in the Church calendar. Seven days earlier, Christians around the world had celebrated Palm Sun...

S outhampton resident Bill Streeter has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the battles in which Canadians participated. With ...

I was thinking this morning as I was getting dressed: "I wouldn't wish me on my worst enemy!" That startling, self deprecat...