OPINION -- Who doesn’t love Jason Statham? Homefront is a great movie starring Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder and Kate Bosworth. This movie will keep you on...

OPINION -- OK, so first off I must apologize profusely. It seems that by mentioning spring in this column a couple of weeks back I could of – and indeed have – jinxed its onset...

OPINION -- Justin and I visited home in Canada twice during our eight years abroad. We would have loved to visit every year – if only to satiate our family’s need to see our faces in 3D...

OPINION -- I’m a stubborn person, which means sometimes it takes a harsh lesson to get through to me. Up until this week, I drove a 2001 Cavalier. She (yes, it was a she) was called ...

OPINION -- Middle aged men with ponytails. I don’t quite know how I feel about that. In my past life in the city there were middle-aged men with ponytails and they tended...

OPINION -- I was lying on my back when I realized I’d had enough of the winter. I had been trying to hold off joining the chorus of voices crying out for a little reprieve...

OPINION -- Statistically speaking, 2014 is unlikely to be the first year of a new ice age, though many of us are starting to wonder. As we enjoy or endure the first day of spring...

OPINION -- For me, video games are more than just something fun to do. They are a release for the pent-up emotions I keep inside...

OPINION -- We are almost three months into the election year, and already I’m starting to get flashbacks.You see, I spent three years working for a big corporation.

OPINION -- Let's be honest: if we were to make a list of the types of businesses we'd like to have in Haliburton County, a military testing site probably wouldn't be on it...

OPINION: I don’t want to jinx it and be blamed for the mercury taking another dive into the double-digit minuses...

OPINION -- For a moment, I thought that writing a bi-weekly column in a small town, about a small town, might be daunting.

OPINON -- Holy Crap! How can snow be this heavy, this hard? It’s like chipping away at the Canadian Shield. I must be dreaming. I’m in some nightmarish world...

OPINION -- When CityTV's Moses Znaimer hired the very black, heavily-accented Jojo Chintoh to be an on-air reporter in 1978, it wasn't to fill any quotas.

OPINION -- Not in my back yard. NIMBY. It’s a term used to describe people who fight against any development they believe will negatively affect their interests.

OPINION -- If words were as deadly as bombs, Armatec Survivability representatives would be missing limbs. That’s because local residents and seasonal property owners who attended a recent information session hosted by the tank manufacturer...

OPINION -- Population is up by 11 per cent over the last 15 years and, as we already know, we’re getting older. Seniors now comprise 27.9 per cent of permanent residents, compared to 22.4 per cent in 1996. Though the labour force increased...

OPINION -- And so I bathed in the glory of it all.
I soaked up the exuberant pre-game atmosphere, the excitement of the game itself, the elation at the goals, the pride
of Canadians on top of the world.

OPINION -- It’s the county’s slogan about which most, if not all, Highlanders have an opinion. Whether you like it or hate it – or even understand what the hashtag is doing there - you have to respect the county for trying something new...

OPINION -- In 1982, as the newly elected president of the St Andrew’s Junior High School Computer Club, my first official duty was to acquire for the group a copy of the Eliza program, an early foray into artificial intelligence...

OPINION -- What amazing athletes. What death-defying sports. What the hell are those kids thinking when they opt to compete in the moguls? Don’t they know that they’re looking at a world of arthritic knee joint agony...

OPINION -- This being an election year, we can expect to hear from the perennial pool lobby, a group of earnest would-be swimmers who have been trying to get a recreation centre built in our community.

OPINION -- The engine screamed, its high-pitched whine audible above the loud rap music that I’d slammed into the CD player, such was my foul mood.

OPINION -- I’d never paid much attention to snowcross before and knew next to nothing about the sport. Hockey yes – especially here in a county that has developed so much talent on the ice.