Commentary

The Voice’s first editor remembers the early days When the Voice of Pelham launched in March 1997, I drove a Saturn sedan. My first cellular flip phone was still a few years away, and parenthood was something to consider in the distant future.

O ne of the first things Christians are taught in catechism class is that the Son of God is not a sausage roll. It’s part of a deeper theology, of course—other pastry snacks are not specified, but He is never, ever a sausage roll.

BY WAYNE OLSON Pelham Town Councillor I have always had a particular fascination with a particular Christmas Eve. The Yuletide season of 1941 was not a happy for one for the countries of the Commonwealth and the world.

Covid hasn’t gone anywhere. Here’s how we know. As the winter sets in it is obvious that we are still a long way from eliminating Covid. In fact the number of cases is not going down.

W hen Toronto lawyer and former NDP provincial candidate Julian Heller told me that his grandfather had scored the most goals in a single soccer game for Germany in that country’s history, I assumed it couldn’t be true. I was wrong.

"How did we get here? As they say, follow the money."

I don’t usually write book reviews in this space but in this case I simply couldn’t resist. Because “Our Daily Bread, From Argos to the Altar – A Priest’s Story” by Alex Frost, a Church of England priest, is a quite wonderful and essential volume.

A t long last it seems that issues of racism and racial injustice are being addressed properly, or at least being at the centre of an informed and caring response.

Developers are running the show The developers are laughing at us. We think we have some control over the way our environment is used, but in fact they have it all.

I suppose that there is something appropriate about a census discussing religion. It was the Roman demand for a census that led the holy family to travel, even with Mary so pregnant with the baby Jesus. That, at least, is how the story goes.