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The middle-aged lady sitting next to me on the plane leaned over and confessed....
If we could see into the future, how our lives would be different. I...
It’s the kind of story that seems too far-fetched, too ridiculous to be true....
We try to lead good lives. We help old ladies cross the street. We...
When is a dead person not a dead person? Apparently, that can be the case when they’re part of a crime scene investigated by the Guelph Police Service. I’m talking, of course, about this strange story that’s been unfolding in the newspaper over the past few days. Some background. When the police were called to a local Gordon Street hotel last week, they found a woman who appeared to be dead. Hotel staff had stumbled on the guest inside her room. Later, police said...
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My grandmother could teach a course in living simply. Nothing is wasted at her house. The water from boiled potatoes makes the base for another soup. She doesn’t need a fancy stereo when her 30-year-old clock radio brings the CBC in just fine. And although she could afford to eat whatever she wants, she prefers to live off simple vegetable soup, sandwiches and homemade wine. As grandkids, we like to joke about how she stretches every dollar as far as it can go. But...
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You’ve tried horoscopes and gypsies. Financial planners and Harvard economists. And yet none of them have been able to accurately predict the future. My only question is this: Why didn’t you come to me sooner? Columnists have been accurately predicting the future since cavemen first wore mullets. It’s kind of what we do. So, without further ado, here are my predictions for 2011. • Ontarians, determined to follow through on their New Year’s resolutions, will head to fitness clubs in record numbers, hogging the...
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It’s so crazy, it just might work. The brand-new Guelph Centre for Innovation was announced this month with a lofty goal from the chamber of commerce of creating 250 start-up companies in the next three years. While your first reaction might be that someone has had too much rum and eggnog to make a declaration like that, think again. What an attention-getting goal like that really does is declare to entrepreneurs they’ll be welcomed and encouraged in Guelph. It tells our professors and researchers...
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Ah, Christmas. Can’t you just hear the sleigh bells ringing and that distinct sound of Visa and MasterCard executives lighting their cigars with $100 bills? Yes. It’s that special time of year when we forget the recent recession, ignore our growing debt loads and head off to the mall to spend like it’s our last day on earth. But there is help. If your wallet could use a break from all that yuletide spending, read on. Without further delay, here are my tips for...
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When I heard about the hard times facing our beloved Christmas tree industry, I did what any good, patriotic consumer would do. I bought two trees. I just wish I could say it was on purpose. I know, I know, what about global warming and all that – but you could consider this my personal economic stimulus package for an industry facing shrinking revenues and an ever-conniving army of tree bandits. Sure, Christmas trees are still big business here. Across Canada, growers earned almost...
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The middle-aged lady sitting next to me on the plane leaned over and confessed....
If we could see into the future, how our lives would be different. I...
It’s the kind of story that seems too far-fetched, too ridiculous to be true....
We try to lead good lives. We help old ladies cross the street. We...
Shhhh, use your inside voice. That’s better. Our fair city, it turns out, has...
At the very least, give them an award for creativity. Guelph residents wrote impassioned...
Behind all the screaming and shouting over tax breaks for “foreigners” and rising hydro...
I don’t need to tell you the news from the south has not been...
At least now I know my blood is too thick for the South Pacific....
First, they legalized bikinis. And now they want to relax Ontario’s liquor laws? What’s...
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