March 2024 Archive
Habitat for Humanity eyes former railway land
By JAMES MATTHEWS, LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER Habitat for Humanity has an eye on Orangeville’s former railway property. Eden Grodzinski, the CEO of Habitat for ...
Intuitive artist Nanci Miranda prepares for launch of exhibit at Millcroft Inn
By Constance Scrafield When you read about Nanci Miranda’s astonishing entry into life as an artist on her website, it may well be a challenge ...
Great Ambitions
By Constance Scrafield A few years before the great man died – and I think he died of deciding to – Stephen Hawkins declared that ...
Council shells out more money for Alder Street facility
By JAMES MATTHEWS, LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER A bad day is when you’re having something repaired at an anticipated cost but you end up shelling ...
Dufferin County declares March as Amyloidosis Awareness Month, raising awareness about the incurable disease
By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Dufferin County has proclaimed the month of March as Amyloidosis Awareness Month to help bring awareness to the ...
Truckers get jail while real criminals get bail
By Gwyn Morgan On Jan. 29, 2022, a trucker convoy headed down to the Coutts, Alta., border crossing with the U.S. to protest the COVID-19 ...
Digital Hawaiian pizza
By Brian Lockhart Who doesn’t like pizza? It’s round, easily transported, and has the distinction of being probably the only hand-held food shaped like a ...
The embarrassing picture
By Keith Schell Newspaper editors have a wicked sense of humour. I think it’s probably because they have to deal with the same routine news ...
Israel-Gaza: ‘No Boots on the Ground’
By Gwynne Dyer Good news! The U.S. logistical support ship General Frank S. Besson Juniorhas just sailed from Norfolk, Virginia carrying the equipment needed to ...
Is technology accelerating the great divide in income?
By Frank Stronach Back in the 1980s, when Artificial Intelligence (AI) was still the stuff of science fiction and computers and automation were changing the ...
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