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Editorial August 29, 2007  RSS feed

A deadly anniversary
Horseshoe train wreck
      Next Monday will be the 100th anniversary of the worst train wreck in the history of the Canadian Pacific Railway's Owen Sound Division. It was on the morning of Tuesday, September 3, 1907, that an Exhibition Special left Markdale bound for what was then known as the Toronto Exhibition (CNE).
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'Plunging' into the Blue
      When asked whether she was a fish or a girl, my bubbly two-year-old responded "fishy-girl." "I go to Plunge now, Dada?" It took her less than 24 hours to gush forth with her demand, after being exposed for the first time to the fantastic aquatic experience known as the Plunge! at the Westin Trillium House at the Village at Blue Mountain.
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Has the worm turned on global warming?
      Oh my. One of the most frequent - and most convincing - arguments made by the global warming scaremongers has been the claim that mankind must be responsible because nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred during the last decade.
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Editor wants your insights
      Caledon Citizen editor Mark Pavilons is pursuing a philosophical tangent. He's trying to get a handle on "happiness" and "success" and how we see these terms. He is asking as many people as possible to email him with their personal (and unique) definitions of those two simple(?) terms.
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Spirits and computers
The Other Side
      Last time I mentioned a "spiritual" look at life and it occurred to me that some sort of definition is in order. A quick look at a dictionary describes "spirit" as the source or "…force animating the body." I doubt I could put it more directly in as few words.
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