October 2021 Archive

Filling your tank with water

By Brian Lockhart I was on one of the online forums I frequent the other day. The forum poses questions by members and searches for ...

Urban sprawl

Dear editor,Over the last 15 years I’ve watched with great sadness the gradual fall of massive amounts of farmland to urban sprawl.  Urban sprawl is a ...

Vikings and Skraelings: Full Circle

By Gwynne Dyer It was already known that the first and only Norse settlement in North America was at L’Anse aux Meadows, at the northern ...

Caught in the Grip

By Constance Scrafield Sometimes, I don’t feel like sleeping. Do you ever have those nights? Nights when you feel you should be a witness to ...

Nightmare on Broadway

By Anthony Carnovale My daughter wants to be a witch this Halloween. Last week, she worked on a potion that she hoped would turn her ...

One of the worst in the world

By Gwyn Morgan The coronavirus hit Canada in March 2020. By the time that first wave had subsided in the summer, hundreds of thousands of ...

Plan released to lift all COVID-19 measures next March

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Ontario government released a new plan last Friday (Oct. 22), to reopen the province long term. In ...

MoD opens Amy Shackleton’s ‘Playing With Fire & Ice’ art exhibition

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Amy Shackleton, a gravity artist, has spent the last decade creating works of art that bring nature back ...

MoD opens Amy Shackleton ‘Playing With Fire & Ice” art exhibition

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Amy Shackleton, a gravity artist, has spent the last decade creating works of art that bring nature back ...

Dufferin Community Foundation presents 2021 Booster Grants to local charities

By Paula Brown The Dufferin Community Foundation (DCF) has provided a needed boost in funding to three charities benefiting Dufferin County residents with the presentation ...

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