Gwynne Dyer
Saving the old over the economy
The basic choice all along with COVID-19 has been: do we let the old die, or do we take a big hit...
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Current plague will bring some changes
They teach you in journalism school never to use the phrase “...X has changed the world forever.” Or at least they should. Covid-19...
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Playing a game of British Roulette
“I must level with the British public: many more families are going to lose their loved ones before their time.” British...
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COVID-19 prompts change in China
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has run afoul of the language police. Last week he publicly called the ‘coronavirus’ that has already killed...
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Has India had it’s Kristallnacht?
The anti-Muslim pogrom in north-eastern Delhi last week killed only 43 people, and a few of them weren’t even Muslims. But then on Kristallnacht...
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Assange hearings hinge on vengeful
The cost of being a whistleblower is going up. When Daniel Ellberg stole and published the ‘Pentagon Papers’ in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies...
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On a path to a new Ireland?
Bertie Ahern, who was the taoiseach (prime minister) of the Irish Republic from 1997 to 2008, was a brilliant machine politician, not a nationalist...
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Is the ‘devil virus’ a ‘black swan’?
China officially went back to work on Monday, after an extended two-week Lunar New Year holiday, while the authorities struggled to get the spread...
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Schaner, Helen Gertrude
Helen Gertrude Schaner Peacefully passed away on Saturday, April 4, 2020 at Trinity...
Cressman, Lawrence Albert “Larry”
Passed away on Sunday, April 5, 2020 at Grand River Hospital, Kitchener, at the age of 77....
Increase in number of COVID-19 slows in Waterloo Region
There are now 185 cases of COVID-19 in Waterloo Region, the Public Health department reported this morning...
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The don’ts and dos on coronavirus
Some of the views expressed here are controversial. So, do ask your doctor. Dr....
Number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in the region
There are now 148 cases of COVID-19 in Waterloo Region, the Public Health department reported this morning...
Shantz, William Bruce “Bill”
William Bruce "Bill" Shantz Passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, at...
April Fools prank hits school board social media
Normally the first day of April is devoted to good humoured pranks on friends and family. But,...