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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...
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...
Sometimes, contrived names we attach to buildings and places can lead to questions about the thinking of those who made naming decisions. Names...
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...
Lines define relationships. Some lines represent borders that separate countries. When a line is drawn in such a manner as to separate a single...
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...
They were a mass of younger people all anxiously waiting in London, England’s Heathrow airport. Quiet, nervous — a pushy crowd of students...
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...
Take a moment and offer some compassion to local Liberal MP Irek Kusmierczyk (Windsor — Tecumseh). Irek is a hard-working, very intelligent and...
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...
A recent e-bike battery fire on Toronto’s subway garnered both attention and expressions of concern about such lithium-ion batteries (Li-ion)....
In the torrential rush to prepare for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, New Year’s Eve, National Cookie Day, or Maple Syrup Day...
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...
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...
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...
This local region has three members of Parliament, each representing a different political party. Each brings to their respective roles as an elected...
In some respects, many Canadians have rebounded from three years of social isolation. Our unemployment levels have dropped and our sporting and...
Many of us have an intuitive sense of what we consider ‘democracy.’ The diversity of understanding of what constitutes democracy leads to a...
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...
By: Lloyd Brown-John One highlight of this year’s Stratford Festival season of live theatre was Quebec playwright Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles...
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...
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...
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...
Black history is integral to southwestern Ontario’s cultural and social history. The region’s Black history is replete with successes and,...
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...
By Lloyd Brown-John Mac Johnston, former editor of Canadian publication ‘Legion Magazine,’ published a book in 1994 titled “Corvettes Canada:...
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,...
Lloyd Brown-John I have always been an inveterate book reader. In those enchanting days before television and social media, radio and books were...
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...