Opinion

Goodbye, USA It's been fun But now you are Too evil for for me. We once were side by side And helped each other out. Now we're a security risk And don't even want to visit you any more.

What to do? There is no right answer for anxious parents wondering if or when they should send their kids to school next month.

It will only take 100 days but we should all know by the end of November whether Erin O’Toole is ready to not only be the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada but the next prime minister of Canada.

Many things have changed in our lives since the coronavirus outbreak; changes like social distancing and working from home. It has gotten to the point that the dog is no longer the only one who gets excited about seeing the postman at the mailbox.

“Mud, mud, glorious mud. Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So follow me, follow. Down to the hollow. And there let us wallow in glorious mud!” So sang Flanders and Swan in their hilarious Hippopotamus Song.

If we look honestly at the media much of the world consumes, we should not be surprised that we are living in a time of crisis. One of the goals of education is to develop the capacity for critical thinking in our young people.

In response to Gerry Chidiac's Aug. 17 column.

A friend’s father-in-law posted this on his Facebook page on Aug. 16 It is a desperately sad but remarkably restrained post calling for more consideration of the unintended consequences of Covid rules.

When I was 21, my younger brother Rob (who apparently thought he was a marriage counsellor) told me that there was no perfect wife. That I should find someone “good enough” and I could make it work if I put in enough effort.

The goal of history, Yuval Noah Harari writes, is “not to perpetuate the past, but rather to be liberated from it.