Reconciliation: more than one day a year
Last Monday was the official National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, introduced by legislation in 2021 in response “to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission...
Close to the edge
Canada is getting very close to the edge. Anyway following the events around Parliament Hill this week must worry about where this country is...
Cheers to solidarity
by Jeff Brownlee
As a frequent customer of a number of LCBOs in the region, I feel compelled to comment on a recent op-ed about...
An unhelping hand
Common sense isn’t common – that’s becoming a remarkably “common” expression these days. But when it comes to government policies, a lack of common...
Councillor Lennox is right: Leave the fees out of minor sports
In the May 9 Council meeting, one motion on the table was a suggestion to add hourly usage fees for local ball diamonds and...
Everybody’s talking
Isn’t language simply miraculous? We talk and write and use it to communicate, to express ourselves, to discuss, debate, consider, and make statements about...
Yes, don’t do that
Last week, an area parent posted online about taking her children to the park, only to have some local preteens show up and ruin...
New report claims Ford government is pushing private health care
“Robbing the public to build the private”. That is the titular claim of a report released last week by the Ontario Health Coalition which...
Print media – not dead yet
The death of newspapers, magazines, in fact all print media, has been declared repeatedly in the past decade or so. On-line platforms, both social...
Those were the days
There’s a lot of confusion about what, exactly “heritage” is. How is it different from “history”? What is it then, that we’re celebrating in...
