A good time to celebrate our best

May 18, 2022

By Nate Smelle It is after midnight on May 10. I am sitting beside my first bonfire of the season; watching the flames swallow up ...

Punching in

By Nate Smelle It’s fair to assume that almost everyone reading this has had several jobs throughout their lifetime. For many of us, especially those ...

The limits of democracy

By Nate Smelle It is that time of year when the break of dawn arrives well before 6 a.m. Stepping onto the front porch last ...

Say their names, learn their stories

By Nate Smelle What can be said about the killing of Patrick Lyoya that hasn’t already been said about George Floyd, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, ...

The other ‘F’ word

By Nate Smelle Freedom is not a word to be used or taken lightly. Nor are words such as fascism, or terrorism. So why is ...

Time for NATO to get more directly involved in Ukraine

By Mike Riley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The war in Ukraine has been raging for nearly six weeks, and shows no signs of letting up ...

Screen free kids’ playtime…what a concept!

MICHAEL RILEYStaff I HEARD AN INTERVIEW on CBC radio the other day about people’s attention spans being diminished due to electronic device usage and too much screen time. This phenomenon ...

COVID-19 vaccine equity only way to beat the virus

MICHAEL RILEYStaff WHILE CANADA HAS made great strides in fighting COVID-19 over the past two years, and indeed many countries have also made remarkable progress in getting their ...

Tudor and Cashel NHFS programs help seniors hard hit by COVID-19 pandemic

MICHAEL RILEYStaff THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, with its restrictions and lockdowns, has had a major effect on the physical and mental health of everybody in Canada and around the world. ...

Licence plate stickers on the way out-it’s about time!

MICHAEL RILEYStaff THE NEWS BROKE RECENTLY that the Ontario government was getting rid of licence plate stickers and the accompanying cost of renewing them each year by ...

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