June 2021 Archive

Orange crosswalk honouring Indigenous children lost to residential school coming to Orangeville

By Sam Odrowski Orangeville Council unanimously supported a motion on Monday (June 29) to add an orange crosswalk at the intersection of First Street and ...

Town delays Broadway sidewalk replacement project until fall 2022

By Sam Odrowski On Monday (June 28) Orangeville Council voted 6-1 to delay the replacement of sidewalks along Broadway until fall of 2022 to allow ...

June – a month of mourning following discoveries of unmarked graves

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter It’s been a month for mourning. National Indigenous History Month, for more than a decade has been marked ...

Canada Day celebrations changed in light of unmarked grave discoveries

By Sam Odrowski Orangeville’s Canada Day celebrations are going to look much different this year, following the discovery of 715 unmarked graves near a former ...

Council decides against parking attendant at Mono Community Centre

By Peter Richardson Mono Council met last Tuesday (June 22) and instructed staff to investigate the possibility and costs of hiring a parking lot attendant ...

An exhaustive rant

By Anthony Carnovale Sigh. These are some wild and crazy times. It feels as if the world we once knew has been blown to bits, ...

Canada’s housing crisis

By Dufferin–Caledon MP Kyle Seeback Canadians know that our country’s housing market continues to reach new and unprecedented highs. For example, in Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo and Windsor, ...

Tear it down?

I read an interesting article a while back about a US college professor who provided details of two world leaders to his class. The first ...

Burma Resistance: Wrong Way

By Gwynne Dyer Burma (Myanmar) is a land of poets. Eleven published poets won seats in the 2015 election, which gave the country a limited ...

The promise in a rainbow

By Constance Scrafield Perhaps one of the earliest mentions of a rainbow in a written work is the Biblical story of the ending of Noah’s ...

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