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Psst! Don’t tell City Hall, but I know a guy who knows a guy who can get you bottles of vitamin C for just $5.99. If you’re willing to spend a little extra, he can find you some of that echinacea all the kids are into, too. He buys the stuff at the local drugstore, I’m told. I don’t ask too many questions, but I hear it helps to ward off colds and generally boosts your immune system. Combine that with sleep and you’ve...
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Look into their cold, beady eyes my friends. Do you see any speck of compassion, any concern for our well-being? No you do not. Why? Because beavers do not have hearts. They do not care for our troubles. They do not care for us. Beavers care only for themselves and nothing else. But I am mistaken. There is one thing beavers care for more than themselves. And that’s killing our trees. And they will stop at nothing to kill and maim and destroy as...
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What a wild week for news. Without warning, Guelph was thrown into the national media spotlight. The stories only grew stranger by the minute. If you’re looking for someone to explain it all, call Peter Mansbridge. But if he’s busy, here’s all you really need to know: Robo-calls: A rash of phone calls made by a group of robots who really, really didn’t want you to vote Liberal in the last election. Somehow they overthrew their human masters and figured out how to make...
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Ah, city life. Guelph’s municipal leaders recently announced they want to double the city’s so-called tree canopy, or the amount of land covered by trees when viewed from above, to up to 40 per cent of our total space. Right now, we’re at 20 per cent, about on par with most Canadian cities. Mayor Karen Farbridge said she’d like to see Guelph have more trees than any other city of our size. It’s a formidable goal, and should be embraced on principle. We all...
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The middle-aged lady sitting next to me on the plane leaned over and confessed. “I don’t think women should be boxing. It doesn’t seem right to me,” she said. This was after I’d just told her I had spent the week in Sydney, N. S., covering the Canadian amateur boxing championships for my newspaper, where men and women were fighting. It was a good thing she kept her voice down. In the seat behind her was Mandy Bujold, Kitchener’s seven-time national flyweight champion. Two...
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