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Ron Davidson

Sep 29, 2022
3 min

World News Day

Making a positive difference to someone’s life is the greatest gift a journalist can give. Perhaps an individual is heard for the first time, or an injustice is settled. Those moments, when a news editor picks up a phone to hear a scared voice say, ‘you are all I have left, I have nowhere else to turn’. The last stand between hope and defeat. It is a sacred contract, as old as journalism itself, yet the tenor of our times would try to divide the people from the newsrooms. If

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Ron Davidson

Sep 15, 2022
3 min

The heart of a child

I’m sitting here in my living room at home after watching program after program reporting on the passing of Our Wonderful Lady, “Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.” This was her full official title. Huh, the Commonwealth, besides England, it includes Canada and 52 other countries. The Faith involves Christ, as she, as Quee

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Ron Davidson

Aug 19, 2022
4 min

What do you expect to find in your day?

When you wake up each morning, what is it that preoccupies your thoughts? Does the business of yesterday sweep back in, flooding you with unresolved issues which never seem to let go? Or maybe today’s concerns of how to face those difficult people, like your coworker or boss, or even your spouse or children, trouble you. Or is it the demands of a project whose deadline is closing in? Some may wrestle with those dreams and goals which have alluded them and how the path to get

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Ron Davidson

Aug 11, 2022
3 min

The Widow’s Might!

The tight fist: can express anger, defiance, or fear of letting go. Sometimes, the latter can be because of a desire for control over circumstances one is familiar with, so fear of change. It also can be a fear of losing a sense of security or provision for one’s imagined future. This can stem from a persistent, or recent, history of lack. Recently, the term “Food Insecurity” has been used more often, so as to become a colloquialism used even by the young. Whether this is bec

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Ron Davidson

Jun 23, 2022
4 min

Editorial: Sister Holy

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Ron Davidson

Jun 9, 2022
4 min

Cleaning up

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 seasons of our lives before. The fact remains, time marches on, things change, and in that new light, we recognize so must our stuff, to match the place we’re in now. Hence the yard sale, the dump-drive and hopefully some re-purposing of things old into new. Change is inevitable; it’s a constant, yet what it brings is always new. Sometimes t

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Ron Davidson

Apr 15, 2022
5 min

What can be said?

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 Time? Is it a concern for the Ukrainian people, Aboriginal resolution and dignity; concern for the unborn yet conceived – created; the recovery of our economy; the answer to this inflation, and for that matter, any money problems, or maybe the price and availability of a good home? Well, I know a woman who is fighting for her life in hospita

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Ron Davidson

Mar 10, 2022
4 min

The Substance of Resilience

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 has been he is protecting ethnically Russian people from being oppressed in Ukraine. Well, the fact of the matter is, prejudice happens everywhere, and we all, in principle, disagree with it. But prejudging or misjudging is a common mistake we all make from time to time. Usually, it is based on lack of information or the presumption of being

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Ron Davidson

Feb 10, 2022
3 min

There are those…

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Ron Davidson

Jan 27, 2022
4 min

Staying Open

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 redirecting or special procedures to function under Covid changes. When will this all be done and past, finally? This desire flows through the minds of most of us daily. Certainly, we are all in this together, but what it feels like for many is, this effect doesn’t matter. But there is an opportunity being missed in all this melancholy colic. When

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Celebrating stories of Ontarians: Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers Recipient – Major (Retired)

Ron Davidson

Jan 13, 2022
3 min

Celebrating stories of Ontarians: Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers Recipient – Major (Retired)

From his early years in rural Kenya in the 1940s and ‘50s, living in villages without plumbing or electricity, Kanwal Sethi came to know the value of volunteering. “When you grow up recognizing that you’re lucky to have what you have,” he says, “it’s part of the culture that you share with your neighbours, family, and those around you, at work and where you live. That characteristic got embedded in me—never to look at something as if it’s mine alone.” On January 1st, Sethi, w

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Ron Davidson

Jan 6, 2022
3 min

12 Ways to take with us

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 Twelve Days of Christmas’. A mnemonic device is a wordplay system used to aid memory. Usually used to remember important dates, list categories or information, or to recall sequences in a procedure to help follow the overall process. My wife and I took a memory-building seminar a few years back and we learned to use memory tricks. A few years

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Ron Davidson

Dec 22, 2021
2 min

With Blessings on our Face

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 vastly different things, for every life’s concerns, which offers more than freedom to everyone that yearns. Chorus 1 And there’s a Merry Christmas on this solid ground where every life that wants, it surely can be found a reaching out from goodness flows through heavens sound just like the angels sang when glory shone around Verse 2 With simple L

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Ron Davidson

Dec 9, 2021
2 min

What is a present?

What is a present? by The Standard | December 9th, 2021 Podcast https://thestandardnewspaper.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Editorial-Present-Dec-9th-2021.wav There are different applications for this word, but they really come basically from the same origin. One is ‘right now’ or in this immediate season, be it the last minute, hour, day, week, month or period in which something is happening. This is the ‘present.’ This is what is known as a verb tense. This overlaps with a s

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Ron Davidson

Nov 25, 2021
5 min

Life taking care of life

The central Christian celebration of Christmas is approaching fast. In our family, it starts on December 7th, for the Hungarian time of Christmas. It is close to the Jewish time of Hanukkah, this year November 28th to December 6th, a celebration of freedom from oppression, no coincidence there. This also overlaps the beginning of Advent, a time commemorating Christ our deliverer ‘coming’ both as a child and later when He returns to usher in His heavenly kingdom. In the West,

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Ron Davidson

Nov 11, 2021
4 min

Remembrance and Thanksgiving

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 born in it, again. It’s a profound blessing to wonder at what has already occurred and find something new or rejuvenating. It’s a kind of exercise we all move in, like trying to hold running water in our hands. We manage for a moment, and that moment shares its power in measures to us once again. Today has its meaning as well, at least to u

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Ron Davidson

Oct 21, 2021
4 min

Thankfulness

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 our lives. It takes no effort to see the things which are the downers. Watch this: the price of gas, the inability to sit in a restaurant buzzing to capacity, the insecurity of much of our employment, rising rental prices of houses and businesses, and the constant assault on our civil rights, I just rhymed off a handful, coming to mind, as

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SEason of thanksgiving – what goes around comes around remember

Ron Davidson

Oct 7, 2021
4 min

SEason of thanksgiving – what goes around comes around remember

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 that. “The Season of Thanksgiving”, starts in late September early October and goes through to the end of Orthodox Christmas in the fresh new year! It’s a season of acknowledgement of so many good things which have gone before, and continue in their spirit today. In 2003 a movement to protect children from abuse started. The phrase “Every Child

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Ron Davidson

Sep 2, 2021
4 min

The Mud Between Our Toes

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. Of course, I didn’t stay too warm, covered with muddy water soaking through my clothes, but mom was there with her momentary look of disappointment and her longer love. There was the time, I overheard her talking with my dad about it. She started out complaining about the amount of laundry I generated but eventually ended up laughing with him

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Ron Davidson

Jul 30, 2021
4 min

Editorial: The good Life

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: Freedom of speech and stimulating conversation around actual concerns people share in the population. Occasionally an editorial may even put forth conjecture on a possible solution for the dilemma of others. And we will always respect the right of people to say what’s on their minds. There is no threat or fear from a difference of opinion. It

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