January 2023 Archive

Who can you trust?

By Anthony Carnovale True story: The other night, there was a knock at our door. I was busy cooking, so my daughter answered it. I ...

Living on the street

By Brian Lockhart There is a series of commercials currently on television, radio, and online from an organization that helps homeless youth. The TV version ...

Return of the alliances

By Gwynne Dyer Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gathererer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to ...

More socialism than Scandinavia 

By Ian Madsen Proponents of evermore expensive government social programs often point to other nations, usually in Scandinavia, as places Canada should emulate. These advocates ...

Open letter re: private care

To Sylvia Jones, Doug Ford, Marit Styles, France Gelinas, John Fraser, Michael Schriener Greetings, Having done so little in terms of supporting Ontarians and their ...

Sleepless on a snowy night

By Constance Scrafield There is plenty to keep a normally good sleeper up at night if the pillow-biters come in too close to bedtime. Perhaps, ...

Building of new homes in Shelburne to pause under Bill 23 as funding for wastewater plant gets slashed

By Paula Brown  Shelburne council is delaying the tendering and construction of a new Wastewater Pollution Control Plant (WPCP) as they navigate financial constraints related ...

Father son duo bringing comedy show to Fire and Festival

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A father and son duo from the Shelburne community have teamed up to bring a highly anticipated new ...

Dufferin County Warden appointed as vice-chair of Western Ontario Wardens’ Caucus

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Dufferin County Warden Wade Mills has been appointed as vice-chair of the Western Ontario Wardens’ Caucus (WOWC).  Mills ...

Business as usual for Credit Valley Conservation’s 2023 budget

By JAMES MATTHEWS, LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER The Credit Valley Conservation Authority came up with a business-as-usual budget for 2023. Quentin Hanchard, the CVC’s CAO, ...

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