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13 August, 2018

WRITER JEFF MAGUIRE REMEMBERS ME -- AND JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH

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The most pleasant surprises occasionally crop up when meandering though the Internet with the aid of my Google search engine.  Such was the ...
09 August, 2018

AUNT ANNIE'S HISTORIC METIS HOME IN SOUTHAMPTON

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Aunt Annie's House has been remodeled over the years. T here's a little nondescript cottage near the harbour in Southampton that...
07 August, 2018

JAYS CARE FOUNDATION HELPS WITH WALPOLE ISLAND FIELD OF DREAMS

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Walpole fans get a hug from B.J. Bird I stumbled across the following story quite by accident and thought that I would re-publish...
05 August, 2018

BLAME OUR TRIBAL INSTINCTS FOR POLITICAL VEXACTION

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"It is easier to be uncomplimentary and argumentative when you are sitting at a computer keyboard than it is when sitting/standing face...
01 August, 2018

TRUE LOVE OVERLOOKS THE IMPERFECTIONS OF TIME

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O h God...here I go again, shedding melancholia induced tears.  I'm trying to get over that! I have lately been throwing out and givin...
20 July, 2018

THE UNIVERSE DID NOT LISTEN TO ROSANNE

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R osanne was constantly praying...about everything. God bless her soul! At one point a few years ago when we were having difficulty mak...
08 July, 2018

FURTHER THOUGHTS ON "THE OTHERS AND US"

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“---we have a national identity, we are proud of it, you come into this country you have to integrate, you have to learn our language, there...
01 July, 2018

WE'RE ALL CANADIANS IN THIS COUNTRY, NOT US OR THEM

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A fellow writer talks about his first experience with the "us and them" syndrome so familiar to all of us, by harking back to his...
26 June, 2018

FAREWELL TO A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN -- MY WIFE

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On our wedding day, September 14,2002. I never got to say goodbye to Rosanne...Sadly, at times like this you rarely do. I left her al...
23 June, 2018

WE ARE CONNECTED: SAUGEEN RIVER BRIDGE RENAMED

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Saugeen Shores Mayor Mike Smith and Saugeen First Nation Chief Lester Anoquot with the new signage ... "We are Connected" O n ...
16 June, 2018

BABIES TEACHING EMPATHY TO SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN

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Roots of Empathy infant "teachers" in Grey Bruce. (Saugeen Times Photo) Empathy: n . the ability to identify oneself mentally...
15 June, 2018

HOW TO PRESERVE NEWSPAPER RECORDS...THAT IS THE QUESTION

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H istorical societies and genealogists are increasingly disturbed over the loss of newspaper records and the difficulty of accessing what i...
11 June, 2018

JANN ARDEN'S VISIT WITH ALZHEIMERS MOTHER LEAVES HER FEELING A SENSE OF RELIEF

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My Facebook friend Jann Arden (I'm old enough to be her father, but I love her just the same) posted the following on her timeline this ...
08 June, 2018

FAKE NEWS SUGGESTION IS DESTROYING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN MEDIA

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The Bible for all Canadian journalists T here is an over-riding tendency in today's society to cast aspersions on anything that is ...
04 June, 2018

THE STELLAR LIFE OF HOCKEY GREAT EDGAR LAPRADE

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Edgar "Beaver" Laprade gets my vote for being one of the best senior hockey players in Canada during the first half of the 20t...