Columns

By Bill Fox/Columnist -You look for your glasses for half an hour and they were on your head the whole time. -It takes more than 10 minutes to find your keys, purse, wallet, [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Are diseases based on our lifestyle choices? In Canada, about 28 per cent of people die of cancer, another 20 per cent die of heart disease, ten per [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist From an early age I knew that one of the greatest vocations and careers someone could have would be in nursing. My wife’s two aunts who passed away [...]

By Garth Johns/Columnist In the 1960’s, the population of the City of Oshawa was approximately 50,000.  Downtown Oshawa was, at that time, home to several hotels, four [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist In today’s world there are a lot of outside factors that sometimes concern me. Trump and new Cannabis laws are just two. So in an effort to fight [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Halloween or Hallowe’en, also known as All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on the [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist I have some very humorous friends who brighten up my day (sometimes) with things they forward. Some of these were forwarded, some researched. [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist A while ago I wrote about having to go to the Apple store in Markville Mall to get my wife’s iPhone 7 repaired and I used my son, Brendan Fox’s [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Some people believe that Thanksgiving Day celebrates the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.  If we are not careful about the real meaning, [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist 1. New laws for distracted driving are set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2019.  Are they enough?  The fines for distracted driving would increase from a [...]