April 2019 Archive

Junior C teams battle through Schmalz Cup playoffs

By Brian Lockhart The battle for the Junior C North Conference of the Provincial Junior Hockey League between the Alliston Hornets and Mount Forest Patriots ...

Cracking down on killing machines

ANOTHER MASSACRE grabbed headlines around the world over this month. Newspapers, social media, television broadcasts and radio replayed the senseless violence on Muslims at prayer ...

Greedy developers

By Brian Lockhart The signs are posted everywhere along local highways letting people know of some new development going up somewhere.  Yeah, new homes!  Now ...

Murder – the biggest show on earth

By Constance Scrafield As access to the fields of battle and quick and ready access to places of tragedy, as a result of battle or ...

An introduction

By Alex McKinnon Hello, you don’t know me, but I know you. Orangeville… a town of steep tradition, and new beginnings. Very conservative, yet sizably ...

World’s leading demagogue

By Gwynne Dyer You can keep your Orban, your Netanyahu, your pathetic Boris Johnson. As for Donald Trump, he’s really an icon of democracy, just  ...

Appeal launched against result of contentious D-C Tory nomination

By Mike Baker Eight days on from the controversial vote that saw Orangeville businessman Harzadan Singh Khattra win the Conservative nomination in Dufferin-Caledon and the ...

‘Kin Jim’ Eberly marks 25 years raising funds for Cystic Fibrosis

By Mike Baker Jim Eberly has never been one to do things the easy way.  It has been 25 years since the Palgrave resident raised ...

Dufferin-Caledon municipalities getting $4.9 million in provincial infrastructure aid

By Mike Baker Municipalities in Dufferin County and Caledon will share a nearly $4.9 million windfall as a result of a one-time provincial initiative designed ...

County Council supports transit lay-by at Edelbrock Centre

By Mike Baker Given the number of vehicles that daily drive by Orangeville’s community garden, Mayor Sandy Brown doesn’t think adding a handful of municipal ...

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