July 2022 Archive

The Fringe is back with shows through Theatre Orangeville’s new Summer Arts Festival

By Constance Scrafield As the Citizen recently reported, Theatre Orangeville is bringing a Summer Arts Festival, an all encomposing celebration of the arts at the ...

Orangeville council investigating new false alarm program

By Sam Odrowski Orangeville Council is looking at developing a new approach for false alarm calls to emergency services. A motion was unanimously passed at ...

Paying with cash

By Brian Lockhart “Cash only please.” You may have seen that sign when entering local business recently after a service disruption caused interact terminals in ...

Extremist views make for bad food policies

By Sylvain Charlebois Not a day goes by without seeing a group, or even a government, changing rules for farmers. In the name of the ...

Remembering Charley Pride

I was watching the six o’clock news on December 12, 2020 and was deeply saddened when they announced that Charley Pride had passed away at ...

The Power of Storytelling

By Jasen Obermeyer Storytelling has been around for a very long time, constantly evolving. From early cave paintings, to word of mouth, oral camp fire ...

Sri Lanka: A Band of Brothers

By Gwynne Dyer “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked (in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’). “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and ...

Much more than phones

By Constance Scrafield We are being told so often to “put down our phones,” as mental health issues, quality of life, person to person communication, ...

Cancel Highway 413

Dear editor, To be simple, any money spent that removes farmland is wasted money. Without our farmland we become more reliant on our food to come ...

DCCBA marks national apology for No. 2 Construction Battalion

By Paula Brown  Dufferin County Canadian Black Association (DCCBA) marked a national apology for the No. 2 Construction Battalion this weekend with a in-person viewing ...

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