John Rook

Dec 19, 2023 | bennettjones.com | Melanie Aitken |Randal T. Hughes |John Rook |Emrys Davis

Following several years of lively public discussion, two high-profile consultations and the introduction of several “interim amendments” to the Competition Act in 2022,1 the federal government has now tabled two new bills (Bill C-56 and Bill C-59), which together, would introduce the most significant reforms to Canadian competition policy in several decades.

Dec 2, 2023 | cheshireherald.com | John Rook

When it officially launches next month, the Royal Caribbean Icon of the Seas cruise ship will be the largest the world has ever seen. It weighs more than 250,000 tons. It can accommodate more than 7,500 passengers. It is just under 1,200 feet in length, just over 210 feet wide. To give some idea of the ship’s scale, when filled to capacity, it can hold more people than currently live in the Town of Durham. It is, to say the least, a mammoth vessel.

Oct 28, 2023 | cheshireherald.com | John Rook

Election Day 2023 is less than two weeks away. The candidates for local office have been making their case to voters now for several weeks, whether in person, at the recent Candidate’s Forum (sponsored by the Cheshire Chamber of Commerce), and in the pages of The Herald. Their campaigns will continue until Tuesday, Nov. 7, when the residents will decide whether the words they heard translate to votes at the ballot box.

Aug 6, 2023 | cheshireherald.com | John Rook

By John RookHerald StaffThe center room of the Hitchcock-Phillips House, home to the Cheshire Historical Society, offers history buffs in general, and military historians in particular, a lot to digest. In the corner is a Civil War-era cot, folded up and somewhat tattered around the edges but still in fine condition given its age. Under glass and key is a replica Derringer pistol, the exact kind used by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865.

Nov 9, 2022 | myrecordjournal.com | John Rook