February 2019 Archive

Town receives $125,000 FCM grant, will hire climate change coordinator

By Mike Baker The Town of Orangeville will soon add a Climate Change Coordinator to its team at Town Hall. The municipality has been granted ...

Pre-trial scheduled for April in case against Michelle Hanson

By Mike Baker Almost a year to the day since toddler Kaden Young was tragically lost in the Grand River and the boy’s mother, Michelle ...

Canada and SNC Lavalin

By Laura Campbell Large corporations have too much power- and attempting to check that power comes at massive costs to the global (and by extension, ...

You just can’t fix stupid

By Brian Lockhart First there was crane girl – now there’s chair girl. Yes, another weird story out of Toronto that the media has focused ...

‘Cold as Ice’

By Mike Baker The expression ‘cold as ice’ has recently taken on a whole new meaning to me.  For those of you blissfully unaware, I ...

Sun rise of optimism

By Constance Scrafield From a distance, and distance begets ignorance, it seems that that Haitians are down-trodden ( I think we can agree on that) ...

Inspiring citizens to take action

By Martina Rowley People like to help. Canadians are known to be very polite and helpful. Why, then, is it still so hard to engage ...

Trump the promise-keeper

By Gwynne Dyer Donald Trump is a man of his word, and he promised his ‘base’ to build a wall on the US border with ...

Westside juniors end season in semi-final playoffs

By Brian Lockhart After a good season that saw them lose only two games – both to the same team – the Westside Secondary School ...

Local cross-town game will pit ODSS vs Westside

By Brian Lockhart The Orangeville District Secondary School Bears finished the regular season with second place in the District 4 / 10 standings after a ...

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