Super schools – Not such a super idea
The Upper Canada District School Board Accommodation Review has been a hot topic over the past few months. With the final opportunity for presenting...
Canadian Apartheid remains an issue
There is an ironic juxtaposition of National Aboriginal Day, which takes place today, Wednesday, June 21, and the Canada Day celebration of Canada’s 150th...
Our house
The housing crisis being faced in Ontario today is not unique to this province or country. It seems that, wherever you look, the cost...
Shooting while blindfolded
Last week, a local resident got in touch with me to express a concern that a particular topic which has appeared in the Times...
In spite of all the danger
Surrounded as we are by bad news, dangers to our health, physical and economic, and all the daft conspiracy theories taking over from rational...
Thank you, don’t come again
Hospital wait times have been awful since the dawn of time (okay maybe since the dawn of hospitals), but the current situation is quite...
I read the news today
These are strange times for newspapers in Canada. A recent survey across the country shows that in the last ten years, more than 16,000...
Blowin in the wind
You would think that a worldwide pandemic would wake people up to the important things in life: like, we’re all in this together. But,...
Minstrel of the Dawn
This week, we’re giving this space over to a special guest, a man this community lost fifteen years ago this week. Peter Nicol was...
A period of transition
The current municipal council is in the third year of its term, and may be beginning to think about the election coming up at...