Baldwin’s Birds
by John Baldwin
This week, with the daily temperatures soaring into the thirties, bird activity in the garden has tended to slow down a little;...
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Prepare for lots of green ink in this week’s Times: it’s our St. Patrick’s Day edition. As an Irishman, I’ve been quite amazed at...
Plastics recycling in North Grenville
by Vicky Stamison
There is a serious problem with the recycling of plastics in North Grenville. At the moment, and possibly for some time past...
What Can I Do When There’s Nothing To Do
by Elisabeth Lamble
I went to the window and looked down my street.
Everything’s quiet, there’s no-one to meet.
No bikers, no walkers, no kids playing ball
No...
Government must reintroduce Mask Mandates & Capacity Limits to address spread of Omicron Subvariant...
I recently had a scare in that a person that I had been interacting with at a social gathering revealed to me that he...
It’s only words #3
by Peter Johnson
('Upper' Oxford Mills)
We are so lucky to be dealing with a language as varied and voracious as English. It does not try...
Roadside Swathings
by Fred Schueler, Fragile Inheritance Natural History
The trick in documenting ecological change is to anticipate what’s going to change before it begins to change. When...
Gender disclosure in schools: An easy non-solution
I must say – 2023 is quite a time to be alive. There are many people alive today who would be able to recall...
Baldwin’s Birds
I hope you all have had a great Canada Day holiday weekend, that your birds have kept you occupied as well, and that they...
September is World Alzheimer’s Month
September is “World Alzheimer’s Month” and I wish they would stop using the word Azheimer’s when the better word is Dementia. I hope to...