COLUMNS

By Bill Fox/Columnist Are we becoming a nation of cynics and skeptics? I’m not sure of the source of this, but I believe that during the two world wars, people banded [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist My brother Mark and I had planned a visit to California after Easter to see our brother Brian. We had gone down last year right after Easter when we had [...]

Back in 2013, activists in Switzerland dumped millions of coins in a public square in Bern to celebrate the successful collection of signatures for a petition that would [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist My life was completely changed not as a result of a letter or email, but a telegraph…a telegraph that we never received in time! For you [...]

By Joel Wittnebel/The Oshawa Express There is a truly awful cliche that says even if you shoot for the moon and miss, you’ll land among the stars. It makes me cringe to [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist I’m told that people in Germany can clearly see the similarities between Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump. I never really gave it much thought until [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Did you ever, in your youth, ask the question, “Who am I?” What if someone were to ask you that today? How would you answer? My guess is that you [...]

By Jennifer Weymark/Archivist A recent photograph donation to the archival collection has brought to mind an important event in Oshawa’s history: the Oshawa Arena fire. The [...]

By Bill Fox/Columnist Are we becoming more like the States? This past weekend near the Entertainment District in Toronto, the police described a crime season as being like [...]