About Refugee Health and Home
Most of us have experienced, at one point or another, the unsettling phenomenon of homesickness. You might have felt it for the first time while attending summe...
Columns
Sexplanations: Consent and Dementia
In 2014, Henry Rayhons of Iowa was charged with sexual abuse for having sex with his wife who had Alzheimer’s disease. They were intimate in Mrs. Rayhons’ nursi...
WR and Howe: Facilities First, and Then Summer Games
While Waterloo Region may have finished on the podium in the race to host the 2021 Canada Summer Games, Niagara Region came out on top. I’m OK with that, as lon...
Sexplanations: On Self-Cleaning Vaginas
Someone recently told me they read online that a mixture of baking soda and vinegar was a good vagina cleaner. Last week a person told me they heard tea tree oi...
Mental Matters: Life Is Suffering, but Anxiety Isn’t Inevitable
Being human is hard. So hard, in fact, that the very first thing the Buddha had to say about life was that “existence is suffering.” That may sound like a downe...
Home Prices Keep Rising
Fewer homes on the market, while WR's population grows
WR and Howe: One Accident is One Too Many in Region
In 2016, 1,851 people were injured on the streets of Waterloo Region. That includes drivers, passengers, pedestrians and cyclists. Six died. Over each of the pr...
After 8 Generations, Family Farm Keeps Branching Out
After eight generations, local family farmers still hustling
Seeker’s Corner: Waiting for the Touch of Something Beyond
TCE's Seeker-in-Chief spends some time with the Religious Society of Friends at a Quaker meeting
Sexplanations: Hormones Can Be Something to Cry About
Driving alone down King Street I am crying in my car. Not enough that I need to pull over, but enough that tears are slowly falling down my cheeks. The reason ...