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Time to save planet Very few people will heed Professor Guy McPherson's warning that a total collapse of our environment is in the

Terry Sarten: Commercialisation of love leads to bad songs

LOVE comes to us in many ways ... family, friends, partners, lovers. Love provides most of the stuff of poetry, literature and song

Colin Ogle: Volunteers keen to help

THE Chronicle gave front-page coverage in October to my criticism of our council's management of plantings in Forres St. My wife

Gwynne Dyer: Trump, WikiLeaks and Russia

WHEN A Fox News reporter asked Donald Trump about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back in 2010, just after Assange had released a

Chester Borrows: Earthquake: Are you ready?

QUAKES have made us stronger, but are we any wiser? It's around two months since the Kaikoura Earthquake, magnitude 7.8, hit. Strong

Gwynne Dyer: Turn to face the strange changes

THE main message of 2016 was that we are entering a period of economic and political upheaval comparable to the Industrial Revolution

Are your kids in on the rock hunting craze?

My world has been taken over by rocks. Painted bloody rocks. Over the holidays my kids discovered Wanganui Rocks -- a Facebook-based

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Colonial history Mike Lally (letters, February 6) comments on "the commemoration of the land wars" as a commercial operation. But

Fred Frederikse: Mideast conflict in lap of gods

Millisphere, n. a discrete region populated by roughly one-thousandth of the total world population; a bit over seven million people

Gwynne Dyer: Turkey-Russia deal rears up

SO FAR the end-game in Syria has played out in an entirely predictable way. All of Aleppo is back in the Syrian government's hands

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One in a million It is with shock and sadness we read of the passing of Dr Chris Cresswell. Chris was a doctor in a million! A

Frank Greenall: Send medieval titles packing

ONE notable achievement of Helen Clark's government was to consign the more anachronistic relics of the honours system, with its feudalistic

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Failed strategy The proposal by Consumer magazine for New Zealand poultry processors to follow recent UK initiatives requiring processors

Jay Kuten: Failures dent Obama legacy

AS President Obama's term ends, it is fair to ask what were his accomplishments and his shortcomings. I'm focusing mainly on foreign

Conservation Comment: 2016, year of misinformation

I've been asked to reflect on the year that was in this column, and what a year it was! When I named Donald Trump "Person of the Year"

Editorial: Paper salutes a man of principle

Sorting out a photo to go with the front page story on Chris Cresswell's death we were spoilt for choice. A personal favourite was

Fred Frederikse: And a grandpa in a grinch tree

Being a practising non-monotheist means that I try not to get caught up in monotheist festivals, but to take it in good grace when

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Sucker punches Mayor McDouall has come out swinging against councillors who wanted to call a special meeting about the sewerage scheme