October 2023 Archive

Monster Mash

By Brian Lockhart One night just before Halloween, when I was a kid, there was a showing of the 1961 movie “The Pit and the ...

Assisted suicide expansion for mentally ill premature

By Rebecca Vachon Fix mental healthcare first. That’s a key takeaway from new poll results, which found that 82 percent of Canadians agree improving access to ...

Who’s Looking Out for our Small Businesses?

By Frank Stronach Earlier this year, one of the co-founders of Home Depot – the world’s largest home improvement retailer – publicly stated that if ...

Israel-Gaza: Better call Cicero

By Gwynne Dyer The blame game has gone into high gear. It started with the massacre perpetrated in Israel almost two weeks ago by the ...

Farming: Not so fun, easy or simple

By Jasen Obermeyer With fall in full swing, it’s that time of year when farmers harvest their hard-earned crops. Since I’m in the country and ...

The virtue and terror of being alone

By Constance Scrafield Said a mother to me of her teenage daughter, “She is never alone.” She was commenting on the young woman’s preoccupation with ...

Coats for Dufferin: Giving the gift of warmth to those needing it most

By Paula Brown, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter With colder weather on the way, it’s once again the time of year to sort through the closet ...

Orangeville student lauded as a ‘piano prodigy’ releases album

By JAMES MATTHEWS, LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER Special things happen because of Valentine’s Day dances. Jonathan Neville runs Dance Orangeville with his wife, the writer ...

Poppy campaign launches in Orangeville this Friday

The Royal Canadian Legion’s annual Poppy Campaign will commence on  Friday, Oct. 27, conducted locally by Orangeville’s “Colonel Fitzgerald” Branch 233. Tens of millions of ...

Fentanyl, cocaine, Xanax seized by police in Orangeville after executing search warrant

Officers from the Dufferin Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) seized a quantity of drugs and charged an individual after conducting a search warrant ...

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