Opinion/Letters to the Editor

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.

Harry Gairns, a former president and manager of Industrial Forestry Service Limited, was born in the northwest village of Atlin in 1932. His grandfather came to Atlin from Scotland near the end of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898.

Do you remember what you were doing on Jan. 25? That was the day the first case of a novel coronavirus was reported in Canada. On Jan. 22, a man returned from Wuhan to Toronto and felt fine with no symptoms.