Who owns Heritage?
There’s been some hard thinking done recently on the subject of heritage. This week, we have learned about the draft agreement between Ontario and...
Ticket to ride
Well, it’s started. The candidates have paid their fee and signed up their supporters, and now we’ll be faced with a plethora of election...
Both sides now
Now that the neighbouring municipalities of North Grenville and Merrickville-Wolford have completed filling positions on their Advisory Committees, they have reached the point where...
An opinion on objectivity
As a general rule I value objectivity, especially in my work as a journalist. In journalism school I had my opinions beaten out of...
Just like starting over
Everyone has heard about the old Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times”. Well, consider yourself well and truly cursed. It’s hard to...
You can do better
I’ll admit it. In 2015 I voted for Justin Trudeau. After almost ten years of Conservative reign, I was excited by Trudeau’s “sunny ways”...
The Heart of a Town
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always liked small town downtowns. Whether it be on a day off when I was a camp...
Here comes the sun
I don’t know about you, but I would like, for a short while at least, to forget about snow in April, coming elections (in...
A hard rain’s gonna fall
The official start of campaigning for the 2018 Municipal Election finally gets underway this weekend. As of this Friday at 2 p.m., nominations close...
This magic moment
Council was working overtime last week, meeting on two consecutive nights to hear presentations from twenty organisations, individuals and groups seeking a Community Grant...