Commentary

Supports retaining current speed limits

July 19, 2019   ·   0 Comments

I find it curious that the Citizen advocates higher speed limits while decrying the pollution and carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles. Increasing one’s speed from ...

Will Orangeville follow suit?

EDITORIAL SHELBURNE’S LONG SAGA concerning the future of policing in the fast-growing town  came to an emphatic close Wednesday night of last week when an ...

Ribfest dealing with last of Barry

SHORT EDITORIAL AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED, this week’s weather has been almost impossible to predict, and that’s even the case for Ribfest, which opens ...

Dear Andrew…

By Laura Campbell Dear Andrew Scheer,  A few weeks ago, I wrote a little note to our Prime Minister, admonishing him for approving a pipeline ...

Why I’m a punk runner

By Anthony Carnovale In the 1970’s, Patti Smith was leading a verbal invasion of the punk rock scene.  When asked about what punk music represented, ...

The newest movie ever made

By Constance Scrafield It’s about a sudden, spontaneous global strike. Not involving every human – just the relevant people and completely changing history – for ...

The power of social media

By Brian Lockhart You would think that any society that has the technology to travel several light years through space and visit another planet while ...

Afghanistan, a decent interval

By Gwynne Dyer There is movement toward peace in Afghanistan – or at least toward an end to the American military ordeal there, which has ...