COLUMNS

By Bill Fox/Columnist A few weeks ago, I wrote a column on “Hunting for Happiness.” This week, I thought I would share some of the things that make me happy. Perhaps you [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist There are not many people with a greater understanding of our society than Jean Vanier. Do you know of Jean Vanier? His father, Georges Vanier, was a [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Recently, dentist Walter Palmer went hunting. I presume hunting made him happy. So shooting the famous lion, Cecil, I assume, at the time, made him very [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist I was watching the movie Back To The Future recently and noticed when Michael J. Fox went back to 1955, a car pulling into a gas station had three [...]

By Jennifer Weymark/Archivist Fun at the beach, 1915 style! Courtesy of the Oshawa Community Museum. [...]

By Jennifer Weymark/Archivist Summer weather is finally here and Lakeview Park is the place to be to beat the heat. In 1924, children beat the heat on the beach and the brave [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist This past winter, with the windchill, the temperature twice went down to -40 C (which is also -40 F). Having just moved into a three-bedroom [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Some of our grandparents, wanting us to have the legacy of a wonderful Earth, actually lost their lives in the Second World War, ensuring that we had [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Probably like a lot of readers, I wasn’t born in Canada. My parents had the wisdom and foresight to bring their young children here in 1950. I was [...]

By Jennifer Weymark/Archivist Summer is officially here! This photograph comes from a photo album full of images of summer at Lakeview Park in the 1930s. [...]