December 2019 Archive

EDITORIAL: Our ‘2020 vision’

AS WE APPROACH THE END of a most tumultuous year, the time has come for editorialists everywhere to go out on the proverbial limb and ...

EDITORIAL: Merry Christmas everyone

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.  Yes, indeed, Christmas is but six days away. Work is ramping down, family plans are starting to ...

Conscious gifting

By Laura Campbell Sometimes within the eco-activist communities, there can be a fair bit of ‘shaming’ around the holidays. We shame one another and ourselves ...

Snow glow and Christmas

By Constance Scrafield Here’s my theory and I went outside, in the country, well away from town lights, with the house dark, to prove it: ...

Christmas miracles

By Brian Lockhart The date was May 7, 1824. The city was Vienna.  It was the first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.  ...

What a decade!

By Jasen Obermeyer Last year I watched the miniseries documentary by CNN on the decades from the 1960s through the 2000s. Looking at mainly events ...

Deadlock in Madrid, firestorms in Oz

By Gwynne Dyer  “The point of no return is no longer over the horizon,” warned UN secretary general António Guterres as the 25th climate summit ...

ODSS Bears junior B-Ball team storming through the season

By Brian Lockhart The Orangeville District Secondary School Bears junior basketball team are leading the District 4 standings and are undefeated after six games. The ...

Orangeville Council approves 1.5 percent increase to local tax levy

By Mike Baker Some Orangeville residents’ tax bills will go up in 2020, while some others’ will likely go down as a result of Council ...

New operator could lease Dufferin day care says Orangeville mayor

By James Matthews Parents affected by a planned child day care closure may get a reprieve from the upheaval of the dearth created when the ...

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