Opinion

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."

They paved Paradise and put up a mega-mansion The Ford Government’s rushed and rammed-through Bill 23 is predicted by housing experts to do next to nothing for alleviating Ontario’s housing affordability crisis, but it will make a lot of Mr.

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.

Backyard chickens a slippery slope to Green Acres I am baffled by the controversy over fowl in backyards. There is a bylaw that opposes this.

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.