April 2020 Archive

COVID-19 claims 4 more local lives, outbreaks at Shelburne senior homes

By Mike Baker Three residents of Shelburne retirement homes have died this week as the community comes to grips with two further outbreaks of COVID-19 ...

Orangeville Jr. A Northmen in a waiting game for start of new season

By Brian Lockhart With the start of the 2020 Junior A lacrosse season scheduled to get underway just over a month from now, it is ...

Ontario Football on hold until April 30, delay will mean shortened gridiron season

By Brian Lockhart It is going to be a short gridiron season this year. The Ontario Football Alliance, along with Football Canada has suspended all ...

EDITORIAL: Sunshine List should be scrapped

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it’s back.  As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to bring governments across the globe to its knees, the Ontario government, which itself ...

EDITORIAL: A possible refinement?

AS JUST ABOUT EVERYONE knows, most local businesses have been ordered closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been some exceptions, inluding supermarkets, ...

Navigating COVID-19

By Sandy Brown While we continue to absorb and understand the effects of COVID-19 globally, across Canada and here in Orangeville and Dufferin County –  ...

The lessons we are learning

By Laura Campbell Harvard epidemiologists are calling COVID-19 a ‘once in humanity’ type of virus. But what is it teaching us? While I’m doing my ...

A little bit of humour

By Brian Lockhart A rabbit walks into a pub, sits down at the bar and orders a beer and a hamburger. He does this for ...

What character…

By Constance Scrafield Has it happened to you, on a day when you felt your were all the pins at the end of the bowling ...

Hungary: the first casualty?

By Gwynne Dyer “Hello, dictator!” said Jean-Claude Juncker cheerily to Hungary’s leader, Victor Orbán, at a European Union summit meeting a couple of years ago. ...

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