January 2020 Archive

Sweetheart Tournament fills local arenas with girl’s hockey

By Brian Lockhart The annual Orangeville Tigers Sweetheart Tournament brought 1275 players and 85 teams from as far away as Timmins to battle it out ...

Junior C hockey schedule down to final games

By Brian Lockhart The Junior C hockey schedule is down to the final few games as small town hockey in the region gears up for ...

EDITORIAL: Health teams may face challenge

ONE BIG REASON offered for the fact that the SARS epidemic of 2003 killed 44 Ontario residents but only four British Columbians is that a ...

Visiting Uncle Mojito

By Constance Scrafield A week to our favourite (all-inclusive) resort in Cuba is meant to be a week of R&R. So, naturally, Patricia and I ...

Other people’s money

By Brian Lockhart No one working on a budget ever comes in under-budget. To clarify, no one working with a budget supplied by someone else’s ...

Girlhood in 2020

By Laura Campbell Though I am very clearly, in the most obvious of ways, a feminist, I rarely describe myself with that particular label. I ...

The coronavirus

By Gwynne Dyer In an emergency, the good thing about a dictatorship is that it can respond very quickly. The bad thing is that it ...

Dufferin-Caledon MP Kyle Seeback hosts first town hall session in Shelburne

By Alyssa Parkhill One of Dufferin-Caledon MP Kyle Seeback’s goals for the new year, in which he discussed throughout the election, was hosting his own ...

Local residents speak out against proposed high-density projects slated for Hansen Blvd.

By Mike Baker There weren’t many happy faces inside Town Hall on Monday evening, with close to 100 local residents on hand to voice their ...

Elementary school teachers hold one-day strike, picket along Broadway

By Brian Lockhart Members of the Elementary Teacher’s Federation of Ontario (ETFO) employed by the Upper Grand District School Board were on the march up ...

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