Columns

By Bill Fox/Columnist On a recent Thursday I’d just come back from a doctor’s appointment when my wife informed me that her iPhone 7 was not working. It had been charging [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Why a buck a beer? Statistics reveal that almost one in five of Canadians regularly binge on booze resulting in relationship difficulties and even [...]

By Joel Wittnebel/The Oshawa Express I’ve never been one for goodbyes. Yet, the time has come. For the past four years I have covered this city in all of its nooks and [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist So you might be wondering what indeed is the world’s oldest game.  We pretty well play it every day…it is called blame.  I don’t know about [...]

By Jennifer Weymark/Archivist The first Monday in August is a civic holiday in Ontario.  While not a statutory holiday in the province, many workers have this day off [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist 1-It was mealtime during a flight on a British Airways plane: “Would you like dinner?” the flight attendant asked the man seated in the [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist My first visit to Brockville was as a result of a funeral for my wife’s 95-year-old Aunt Mona Latham, a long-time nurse in the community.  There are [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. Don’t worry about what people think, they don’t do [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist In a recent study of 74 of the world’s greatest cities, the Toronto area ranked sixth worst for commuting in the entire world. The key reason [...]

By Jennifer Weymark/Archivist By the late 1920s, Oshawa was home to a large number of Ukrainian immigrants.  The Ukrainian community had grown so much that, by 1928, [...]