Columns

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, [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist I will start by listing my qualifications: -For over 65 years I have attended church services regularly.  That makes my experience longer than the [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist In my declining years, I find that I spend too much time on my computer.  I decided a while ago to give up Facebook, but one of my sons started an [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist My wife is joining me in retirement at the end of June. She probably could have written most of this column (she told me to write that). These points I [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist I’m talking about possibly having Doug Ford as our next Premier!  Just like Donald Trump, our Progressive Conservative leader seems to have [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Some years ago, a newspaper published a special report that contained life lessons from eight senior citizens they interviewed.  While aging can bring [...]

By Bill Fox/Column Many of us, at least for a while, will be Humboldt Broncos.  The terrible recent accident taking the lives of 15 people in a hockey bus on the way to a [...]