By Deirdre Pike “Cold enough for ya?” Now there’s a conversation starter I could go without hearing the rest of my days. Right up there with “What’s new?” Yes, it’s cold enough for me. Thanks for asking. As I made my way around Hamilton this past frigid week I was reminded over and over again …
View Post »By Nicole O’Reilly Rachael Spalding remembers every detail from the day her dad died amid a struggle with mental illness. “I remember the day that I was told … I decided to recreate that,” said Spalding, 15, who is in Grade 10 at Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School. In the painting she is sitting in …
View Post »Anglican Bishop John C. Bothwell was seen in the church as one of the great leaders of his time. Bothwell died in Burlington on Jan. 28 at 87. He became the eighth bishop of the Diocese of Niagara in 1973, a period of increasing secularization. Congregations were beginning to shrink and Bothwell said at the …
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