As We See It Barely a month into his tenure, Ontario Premier Doug Ford continues to launch rockets from his perch at Queen’s Park. The biggest bombshell landed last Friday, when Ford announced that his…
For 90 minutes on Saturday, Summerfest was Doug Ford’s party BY DAVE BURKET The VOICE Ontario Premier Doug Ford stopped by Summerfest on Saturday afternoon, arriving at the foot of Church Hill Street around 3:45,…
BY JOHN SWART VOICE Correspondent Being humbled can occur in many ways, at any time. The occasions we tend to remember, or that our friends remind us of, are those during which the humbling takes…
I always thought of myself as an emotionally stable person. And then I had a baby. BY EMILY BOSS Special to the VOICE The fierceness of parental emotions first struck when my child was less…
Encouraging life’s meaningful conversations BY DON RICKERS Special to the VOICE Having spent most of my career in schools, it should not be a surprise that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is one of my all-time…
Editor’s note: After meeting Sam Piccolo the first time, over coffee at Keith’s in early 2017, I went home and told my wife, “I just met myself, thirty five years ago.” The more I…
Editor’s note: Mayor Dave Augustyn brought forward a motion at last Thursday’s Regional Council meeting to curtail the use of tax dollars for promotion of regional business by individual councillors. The Voice reached out…
Maybe the past is a dreamer best left sleeping BY COLIN BREZICKI Special to the VOICE Time and memory go in opposite directions, it’s said, and that can make things awkward. With time it’s simple…
Considering what could have been BY DON RICKERS Special to the VOICE I missed my calling. For 35 years I worked in education…as a teacher, university recruitment officer, boarding school administrator and housemaster, and headmaster…
A converted city-slicker’s ode to the rural life BY JANE BEDARD Special to the VOICE Three and half years ago, we transplanted from the thick, chunky stew of Toronto to the thin, translucent broth of…