New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – PARENT OR PARENTING?

Being a parent is a role assigned when your child is born or adopted. It continues as long as you live. In contrast, parenting...

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things – by Rev. Heather McCarrel

On the wooden shelf in my dining room sits a metal tin box that is painted blue with multi coloured flowers on it.  Over...

Grey Bruce Labour Council on return to in-person learning

Worker by worker or in the context of community, or both, the cornerstone of organized labour is health and safety. Demonstrated over decades of...

New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – ‘A LISTENING EAR’

With our kids and grandkids returning to school Monday, this round of on-line virtual learning is over—we hope permanently! But I must confess that...

Practice the Golden Rule says reader

"If you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all”  Such a sage piece of advice, but I would like to add to...

New Perspectives: Make Your Life An Event! by Rev. Heather McCarrel

Here we are at the beginning of a new year with 365 blank days ready to be filled.  Each day is like a page...

New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “MY DIARY AND ME”

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.----- Oscar Wilde As I was writing yesterday’s first entry in...

Contented Christmas – by Rev. Heather McCarrel

Do you recall the children’s game Snakes & Ladders?  It is a square game board with 100 squares on it with the first one...

Op-Ed: Will music around the world bring us all together?

United Kingdom Transit System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-SgPRS00i0 Montreal Cathedral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43V0KdTbqxI Children's Cancer Centre Sweden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGQ73MgqtvA Switzerland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92WKbtocEA0 Nairobi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-c48rzOWwc Jerusalem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ1AB5OrCks Palestine Ireland Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj23_Z6UECk

Winter solstice fast approaching … a countdown to Spring

For anyone who has looked up into the sky last night or tonight, (Dec. 18th & 19th), the full moon is spectacular. According to the...