March 2022 Archive

Theatre Orangeville’s Things My Fore-Sisters Saw: review

By Constance Scrafield  A lot of history never makes it into the school classrooms. We need, therefore, to be grateful to those actors who perform ...

International Women’s Day recognized with Campaign

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global celebration of the accomplishments of women and in honour of ...

Ontario lifting mask mandate after March Break

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Ontario government will be lifting mask mandates in most settings on March 21 and is set to ...

Freedom Convoy shows we need direct democracy

By Mark Milke A vast gulf exists between Canada’s chattering classes – many politicians, some journalists and a plethora of academics – and citizens on ...

Another Cold War?

By Brian Lockhart This week’s news has all been about the invasion of Ukraine, and rightly so. The Russian military build-up has been going on ...

Searching for a silver bullet

We’ve got a problem!  My urge is to find ‘the’ solution. It is human nature to search for ‘the’ answer on the assumption somewhere there ...

Acknowledge that war is outdated

By Constance Scrafield Donald Trump is so excited about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Putin, to whom he pandered and deeply admires, has simply invaded a ...

Putin: Junkie Madman?

By Gwynne Dyer It was my wife Tina who noticed it first, a couple of weeks ago. Her father Charl, a clever, gentle man whom ...

Good Samaritan

It was a Good Samaritan day for a few of us.  On Friday, Feb. 11, walking with my cane on Mill Street in Orangeville, I ...

Harmony Foods

My thanks to Constance Scrafield for her kind tribute to Jennifer Grant who sadly passed away February 2nd, 2022. I worked for Jen in her ...

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