Cheers to local media
by Deron Johnston
Every time that we pick up a local paper that is dedicated to informing their readers of the local issues, local events...
Frozen in time
It’s hard to predict the future, though many have tried. No, I am not talking about false prophecies of the end times – I...
I fought the law
In a week of big news from all over the world, we have a major story breaking in our own community with the announcement...
X does not equal X
Small towns talk, and they love to talk about bad drivers. Sure, people who live and work in large cities can’t drive either, but...
I am the sun
Canada Day has now come and gone – nearly two weeks ago, in fact. There is a topic of debate that comes up every...
I’m sorry, but I don’t work here
Have you ever had occasion to wonder why we don’t get paid to use self-checkout machines? I mean, we’re doing a cashier’s job, right?...
The poverty of leadership
By Woody Armour
Kemptville has a problem, it is a problem of poverty, of human poverty and commercial poverty, and they are related and intertwined....
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,...
A year of death and division
This is our annual Remembrance Day issue, and we have, naturally, concentrated on the year of 1917, one hundred years ago, and a pivotal...
The Answer to Everything
From the beginning of human civilisation, we have been trying to come up with the ultimate Answer to Everything: the one statement that would...