September 2019 Archive

FTP’s 2019 Ferguson Memorial Walk celebrates ‘family’

The 2019 Ferguson Memorial Walk is scheduled for next Sunday, September 22, at Island Lake from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.  The 9th annual walk, ...

911: Concerned citizens’ calls to police lead to impaired driving charges

Orangeville Police arrested and charged a 45-year-old Orangeville man with impaired driving after a resident found him parked in a driveway sleeping, at a Hillside ...

Outlaws hand out the hardware at annual banquet

By Brian Lockhart The Orangeville Outlaws celebrated another successful season when they held their annual season end awards banquet. The event took place at Monora ...

Orangeville Tigers host First Shift program

By Brian Lockhart While hockey is our nation’s favourite sport it is also one of the most expensive to take part in. On top of ...

On climate change, all parties have frailties

EDITORIAL WITH CLIMATE CHANGE posing as a major issue to be dealt with by Canada’s political parties in the run-up to the Oct. 21 federal ...

The great affordability crisis

By Laura Campbell This column is not describing how and in what ways life has become too expensive. You know it as well as I ...

Healthy directions with rail to trail

By Sandy Brown It’s easy to romanticize the railway – movies and black and white photos provide us with memories of a quieter time when ...

The age of exaggeration

By Constance Scrafield We are awash in hyperbole. It fills our senses and and fogs our vision like swimming in a sea that is too ...

Medical research

By Brian Lockhart In December of 1903, Orville Wright climbed onto the lower wing of a primitive, sort of backward looking airplane, and managed to ...

Turkey – the empire strikes back

By Gwynne Dyer The Ottoman Empire, like many of its Middle Eastern predecessors, had the bad habit of moving entire peoples around if they were ...

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