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Opinion: Uhuru Will never Be Able to Please Everyone, Should Fearlessly Do What Is Right Tuko 4 hrs ago Tuko.co.ke © Provided by Tuko Opinion: Uhuru Will never Be Able to Please Everyone, Should Fearlessly Do What Is Right English poet John Lydgate is best remembered for a powerful quote that remains relevant today as it was in his lifetime between 1370 and 1450. © Provided by Tuko President Uhuru rejected six judges out 40 nominees. Photo: State House Kenya. Source: Facebook “ You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some o...

Sharon Kennedy: A tale of two opinions By Sharon Kennedy Special to the Tribune The afternoon of Tuesday, May 25, I was shopping at Walmart in Sault Ste. Marie. The aisles were crowded with smiling, maskless people. Everyone was polite and considerate. It was blissful to feel almost normal again after the long pandemic siege. That is not to say it’s over, but there appeared to be a general sense we had survived the worst of it. It was as if we all breathed a collective sigh of relief. For the most part, we kept our masks in our pocket or purse as we filled our shopping carts.

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Sketch of conductor, attributed to Alfred Edward Chalon, 1840. Art Institute of Chicago, Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection. In 1557 the legal printer Richard Tottel published an auspicious volume of English poetry: Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other, or as Thomas Warton, who wrote the first modern literary history in the late eighteenth century, called it, “the first printed miscellany of English poetry.” According to Warton, Tottel salvaged “many admirable specimens of antient genius” ...

Medieval Millennials When does a boy become a man? Medieval millennials were just as hard to define as those of today. We have a tendency to associate youth culture with modernity, but medieval people were as anxious about youths as are today’s headline writers worrying about the rise of the ‘millennial’. As the poet John Lydgate (c.1370-c.1451) warned: ‘O lusty gallants in your adolescence, / ... When you are stirred to wanton insolence, / Restrain yourselves.’ We might also assume that extending youth beyond the teenage years is a luxury of a modern society, where life exp...

Article content That old pearl of wisdom, “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” seems an accurate description of Prince Edward council’s recent attempts to address the concerns of local residents. Pressure to take action in controlling the problems created by last year’s tourist tsunami in the county, councillors surveyed community residents to pinpoint the areas of key concern. Illegal parking was among them. Locals were tired of having visitors clog the roads in long line-ups to enter Sandbanks Provincial Park. There were complaints about blocked driveways and visitors parkin...