Protect yourself from Tick Bites
As weather gets warmer learn how to prevent tick bites and Lyme disease. The Government of Ontario is encouraging people across the province to...
Staff shortages causing concern
There is a sad irony to the fact that many businesses which managed to survive the lockdowns and restrictions of the past year and...
Ecological issues in North Grenville: Maybe it’s time the municipality has an Environment Committee?
By Fred Schueler & Aleta Karstad
North Grenville operates under the contradictory motto of “Green and Growing,” but the issues discussed in the current municipal campaign...
Road crews are on the job
This winter has been one of snow, freezing rain, melting, re-freezing, and yet more snow - lots and lots of snow. But, in the...
First past the post is not democracy
by Steve Gabell
We’ve just had another election under first past the post (FPTP), and, once again, the distribution of seats is wildly different to...
Why a universal basic income won’t work
The federal government is toying with the idea once again of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) program that would potentially see base income payments...
It’s not just the casting couch
by Melanie Whyte, RP
.....sexual harassment, abuses and assaults in the world we all know and live in.
It would be comforting to think that the...
Eastern Ontario Correctional Complex
by Patricia Habberjam
Community Engagement Session Via Zoom, 26 November, 2020
I joined the above meeting, at 5pm, to learn more about this new proposed Correctional...
Now more than ever
This is a particularly exciting issue for us here at the Times. This is National Newspaper Week, and all the members of the Ontario...
New book tells of Canada’s role in the Chinese Labour Corps during WW1
A local author has released a new book telling the little-known story of Canada’s role supplying Chinese labourers to Northern France during the First...