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Brown-John: Colonel Talbot — SW Ontario's first autocratic despot

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Brown-John: Ontario's Sunshine List needs some 'mooning'

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. By: Lloyd Brown-John There is a term of behaviour which...

19.04.2024 10

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Brown-John: Broad sweep of Windsor-Essex public school trustees overdue

12.04.2024 5

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Brown-John: 'Axe the Tax' — but then do what to curb pollution?

05.04.2024 4

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Brown-John: Humour, or lack thereof, says lots about politicians

29.03.2024 7

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Brown-John: Some public 'consultations' don't really want your input

22.03.2024 3

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Brown-John: When spending, know the difference between wants, needs

15.03.2024 7

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Brown-John: Premier Ford is tainting our judiciary

Many years ago my late colleague and former Premier of Manitoba Howard Pawley and I spent several hours while working on a book chapter debating his...

09.03.2024 10

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Brown-John: Of perils and pretension in naming new schools

Sometimes, contrived names we attach to buildings and places can lead to questions about the thinking of those who made naming decisions. Names...

02.03.2024 9

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Brown-John: Protecting Hillman Marsh means conserving our future

I still have a compact disk of a flood simulation showing what might happen around Hillman Marsh and east Leamington should protective dikes give way...

24.02.2024 4

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Brown-John: Canada 'walking the line' with Donald Trump

Lines define relationships. Some lines represent borders that separate countries. When a line is drawn in such a manner as to separate a single...

17.02.2024 7

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Brown-John: Human rights champion Dan Hill a remarkable person

The start of Black History Month reminded me again of one of the finest gentlemen I’ve ever been privileged to meet — Dan Hill. Sitting across...

10.02.2024 8

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Brown-John: Is Canada's higher education addicted to foreign students?

They were a mass of younger people all anxiously waiting in London, England’s Heathrow airport. Quiet, nervous — a pushy crowd of students...

08.02.2024 8

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Brown-John: Ed Broadbent was 'a truly civilized politician'

Not surprisingly, upon learning of the January 11 passing of former federal NDP Leader Ed Broadbent nobody asked me about him. I suppose that as...

02.02.2024 4

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Brown-John: Feds need to show more compassion — and funds — for Windsor

Take a moment and offer some compassion to local Liberal MP Irek Kusmierczyk (Windsor — Tecumseh). Irek is a hard-working, very intelligent and...

27.01.2024 3

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Brown-John: No matter where you live in Essex County, 2024 taxes are going up

A month ago we would have been celebrating “Tis’ the Season to be Jolly!” But this the start of a new year and we might now re-phrase it as...

20.01.2024 5

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Brown-John: As demand rises, battery technology rapidly evolving

A recent e-bike battery fire on Toronto’s subway garnered both attention and expressions of concern about such lithium-ion batteries (Li-ion)....

13.01.2024 20

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Brown-John: Perilous political journey ahead for new Ontario Liberal leader

In the torrential rush to prepare for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, New Year’s Eve, National Cookie Day, or Maple Syrup Day...

06.01.2024 20

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Brown-John: Dragging in another new year

I have never been tuned into the mentality that plows forward into a new year sparkling with resolutions for reform of self and/or the world. As you...

30.12.2023 8

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Brown-John: Are we forgetting the meaning of Christmas?

Far too early each Christmas morning I’d sit by the fireplace in our small one-bedroom house, eager for parents to awaken and see what Santa had...

23.12.2023 6

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Brown-John: A Christmas Tree Story

I cannot abandon my passion for real Christmas trees, and each year we decorate our late live tree with hundreds of unique decorations acquired in our...

22.12.2023 5

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Brown-John: Politics, jobs and Windsor's EV battery factory

This local region has three members of Parliament, each representing a different political party. Each brings to their respective roles as an elected...

16.12.2023 5

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Brown-John: Time to shed COVID's lingering negative social impacts

In some respects, many Canadians have rebounded from three years of social isolation. Our unemployment levels have dropped and our sporting and...

09.12.2023 5

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Brown-John: True democracy relies on free expression, but with empathy

Many of us have an intuitive sense of what we consider ‘democracy.’ The diversity of understanding of what constitutes democracy leads to a...

02.12.2023 3

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Brown-John: We deserve transparency with battery plant jobs

Isn’t it a little unusual that information about the prospect of up to 1,600 South Koreans arriving to work on Windsor’s new electric-vehicle...

27.11.2023 4

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Brown-John: Democracy being 'side-stepped' in rush to build new homes

By: Lloyd Brown-John One highlight of this year’s Stratford Festival season of live theatre was Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles...

18.11.2023 3

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Brown-John: In an age of cyberattacks, ‘pay attention to your privacy’

By: Lloyd Brown-John I am not a fan of either social media or of the extent to which so many people and institutions have become impacted by social...

11.11.2023 2

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Brown-John: Essex County's Highway 3 becoming a real highway

I always enjoyed time spent with the late Ontario MPP and Essex County mayor Bruce Crozier. I first met Crozier when I was conducting one of the...

04.11.2023 9

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Brown-John: Perhaps time for prime minister to retire, eh?

By: Lloyd Brown-John Mr. Trudeau: As I contemplate your future I am reminded of a car we bought 12 years ago which is now somewhat worn and...

27.10.2023 3

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Brown-John: A most worthy celebration of local Black history

Black history is integral to southwestern Ontario’s cultural and social history. The region’s Black history is replete with successes and,...

20.10.2023 4

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Brown-John: Essex County’s 'vanished communities' ready for re-discovery

by Lloyd Brown-John Chris Carter is well known to many as a capable local historian. His passion for identifying everything in Essex County with...

14.10.2023 10

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Brown-John: Give Canada’s military the tools to do the jobs we expect

By Lloyd Brown-John Mac Johnston, former editor of Canadian publication ‘Legion Magazine,’ published a book in 1994 titled “Corvettes Canada:...

06.10.2023 2

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Brown-John: Tales of two premiers — and 'political foolishness'

by Lloyd Brown-John Charles Dickens began his famous French Revolution novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ with the line: ‘It was the best of times,...

29.09.2023 3

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Brown-John: Canada experiencing 'widespread insanity' of book-banning

Lloyd Brown-John I have always been an inveterate book reader. In those enchanting days before television and social media, radio and books were...

22.09.2023 3

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Brown-John: Doug Ford cabinet played cards wrong in Greenbelt scandal

Canada’s 10th prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King is reputed to have kept undated letters of resignation of each of his cabinet ministers in...

08.09.2023 6

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