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Sharing information gives us all power

Like so many other people, I have found myself in awe of the new technology that is being introduced today. Many of the products and the software that runs them are truly remarkable. The tools we have that allow us to communicate and provide us with the ability to...

Street corner newspaper boxes

Real estate newspapers — newspapers that contain advertisements of properties for sale as their main content, first began to flourish in the 1970s. They really came into their own during the 1980s. The reason real estate newspapers began publishing, was to...

Are we talking the same language?

BY HEINO MOLLS – I immigrated to Canada in 1953. Soon after my arrival, when I was five-years-old and started school, I quickly learned to speak English. I came to believe that English was a language just for children. I believed in my heart that only kids spoke...

The old man and the rose

During the mid 1950s when I was a kid, my dad worked in a furniture shop at Spadina and Queen in downtown Toronto. Sometimes, I got to go to the shop with him and I made a bit of pocket change running to the restaurant and getting coffee for everybody. I would pass...

It’s open season in politics

For the last little while we’ve had a lot of political activity in almost all the provinces across Canada. There are relatively new governments in British Columbia and Quebec. We’ve had parties return to power in Manitoba and New Brunswick. They’re going to the polls...