Columns

Although I am not a curler or would not even classify myself as a curling fan, last week, I got up early (5 a.m.) to watch the Olympic gold medal curling mixed doubles [...]

By Joel Wittnebel/The Oshawa Express The first time I met Dave Conway, I thought he was my competition. He sat in the back of the council chambers, a notebook perched on his [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Do you know who Saint Valentine was and how he become associated with this ancient rite? I’ve been celebrating with my wife for 43 years of [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist For children, Cupid and exchanging Valentine’s cards are fine, but as I get older, I appreciate more what real love is, and how it was shown to [...]

I have a friend with seasonal affective disorder (SAD). It is a type of depression that’s related to changes in seasons — SAD seems to be confined to the winter [...]

Some time in the last few years, I stopped believing in coincidences!  I think it may have started as a result of the following story, which I have related before. I was [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist While emphasis is often placed on how well students perform on tests, a principal at an unnamed school wrote a letter to parents urging them to worry [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Christmas, more than any other time,  is a ‘family time’.  Unfortunately, perhaps, like me, you know of families where there is conflict and [...]

We all recall the story Adam and Eve.  Biblical scholars will tell you that it is an allegory (a story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Facebook co-founder Sean Parker let us know what’s really going on and how apps like Facebook are wired to have you addicted.  He was [...]