Defend disability
This year’s Ontario provincial budget once again leaves people living with disabilities in Ontario behind. Ontario’s 2024 “Building a Better Ontario” budget offers nothing...
Future housing
by Graeme Waymark
Last week, I replied to a David Shanahan feature column regarding housing. I expressed my gratitude and also attempted to constructively build...
Twig for the trees
Perhaps some things are bound never to change. North Grenville Council being accused of rubber stamping property development requests is a fine example. I...
Ford vows to build more jails
Just as you thought the whole jail issue was quietly slinking away into obscurity, Doug Ford has managed to raise the heat again. In...
A natural woman
International Women’s Day used to be a controversial concept for men: why should there be a day just for women? Is that not sexist?...
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...
Self-checkouts not adding up
It seems that the rise and rise of technology is not the inevitability it was once thought. Not too long ago, the introduction of...
Girls from the north country
The obvious title for this piece was “The Times They Are a-Changin’”, but this needs something beyond cliché. Last Saturday, I watched a meeting...
Where’s the catastrophe?
I haven’t lived long enough to know whether people in the “good old days” era (whenever that is) complained about the world going to...
The hunger games
Last week, community members were once again asking in local community forums about how, as a newcomer to North Grenville, to get a doctor...