Tag: Columnists
Baranyai: Fireworks should go out with or without a bang
At a time when “we’re all in this together” rings maddeningly hollow, it can be restorative to consider what unites us, beyond the grinding anxiety of a global pandemic.
Cornies: Slave chapel saviours must communicate better
Let’s first say this: Almost everyone who’s come anywhere near the nearly decade-long effort to save London’s fugitive slave chapel, presently located on a church property on Grey Street, has been motivated by goodwill.
Marples: Three reasons Russia can’t turn back
Russia has reached the point of no return in its conflict over Ukraine
Sims: Health unit has got memo on lowering barriers to shots, but GO-Vaxx hasn’t
I think local public health officials would agree, at this point in the latest COVID-19 vaccination push, it needs to be as easy as possible to get a shot.
Anwer: A prayer for an end to Islamophobia
It’s been five years since Alexandre Bissonnette walked into the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City and opened fire on congregants. Yet for many of us who frequent or work at a mosque, it feels like yesterday.
Sims: Mounting death toll painfully proves Omicron is not like the flu
So, you think Omicron is just a mild illness? Like the flu?
Sims: Proof of vaccination for kids may move needle on lagging rates
It’s taken months, but Middlesex-London officially passed the magical threshold of 90 per cent coverage for two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Sims: Pandemic-weary now numb to mounting deaths in fifth wave
Recall, if you can, those feelings of dread that washed over the city two years ago at the first known COVID-19 infection.
Tobah: Sharing collective history can help fight hate
In 1965, my grandfather was appointed the first Muslim professor in Queen’s University’s applied sciences faculty.
Baranyai: Online retaliation makes us judge, jury, executioner
“Fame is a fickle friend, Harry,” the vainglorious Gilderoy Lockhart tells his renowned student in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.