Making a positive difference to someone’s life is the greatest gift a journalist can give. Perhaps an individual is heard for the first...

I’m sitting here in my living room at home after watching program after program reporting on the passing of Our Wonderful Lady,...

When you wake up each morning, what is it that preoccupies your thoughts? Does the business of yesterday sweep back in, flooding you with...

The tight fist: can express anger, defiance, or fear of letting go. Sometimes, the latter can be because of a desire for control over...

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Every year we go through a rite of cleaning out the junk, the build-up of unnecessary things, stuff we deemed needful in moments or even...

Times come, and then they go. The shifting of sands amidst the rolling of the tides. What has been deposited upon your shore this Easter...

I’m sure everybody is aware of the war in Ukraine and how stubborn President Putin is being, regarding what he is attempting. His claim...

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I’m sure most of us would prefer the economy and our society stay open. No more yo-yo effect from closing of public spaces, or the...

From his early years in rural Kenya in the 1940s and ‘50s, living in villages without plumbing or electricity, Kanwal Sethi came to know...

There is a fun song, sung around Christmas time, which, early on, was used as a mnemonic device for various subjects. This song is ‘The...

Verse 1 There is a place that’s open, to everyone who will, a table covered waiting there, for every wound or ill. It’s filled with...

What is a present? by The Standard | December 9th, 2021 Podcast https://thestandardnewspaper.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Editorial-Pres...

The central Christian celebration of Christmas is approaching fast. In our family, it starts on December 7th, for the Hungarian time of...

The faculty we have to recall the past, to reflect on its meanings to us, to enter into the feelings this invokes, and then bathe, partly...

Thankfulness. To be full of thanks, what a thing. If any one of us takes the time to reflect, we really can find things to be glad for in...

So many good things have transpired as of late, by way of recognition, and remembrance I could hardly keep up, and I am thankful for...

Do you remember the sheer joy of jumping in a nice puddle of muddy water when you were little? I do, with relish of thought and warmth....

I’m so pleased that people have been sharing their opinion about a recent editorial in The Standard. This is what a newspaper is about:...