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COVID-19 claims 4 more local lives, outbreaks at Shelburne senior homes

April 20, 2020   ·   0 Comments

By Mike Baker Three residents of Shelburne retirement homes have died this week as the community comes to grips with two further outbreaks of COVID-19 ...

Orangeville Jr. A Northmen in a waiting game for start of new season

By Brian Lockhart With the start of the 2020 Junior A lacrosse season scheduled to get underway just over a month from now, it is ...

Ontario Football on hold until April 30, delay will mean shortened gridiron season

By Brian Lockhart It is going to be a short gridiron season this year. The Ontario Football Alliance, along with Football Canada has suspended all ...

EDITORIAL: Sunshine List should be scrapped

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it’s back.  As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to bring governments across the globe to its knees, the Ontario government, which itself ...

EDITORIAL: A possible refinement?

AS JUST ABOUT EVERYONE knows, most local businesses have been ordered closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been some exceptions, inluding supermarkets, ...

Navigating COVID-19

By Sandy Brown While we continue to absorb and understand the effects of COVID-19 globally, across Canada and here in Orangeville and Dufferin County –  ...

The lessons we are learning

By Laura Campbell Harvard epidemiologists are calling COVID-19 a ‘once in humanity’ type of virus. But what is it teaching us? While I’m doing my ...

A little bit of humour

By Brian Lockhart A rabbit walks into a pub, sits down at the bar and orders a beer and a hamburger. He does this for ...

What character…

By Constance Scrafield Has it happened to you, on a day when you felt your were all the pins at the end of the bowling ...

Hungary: the first casualty?

By Gwynne Dyer “Hello, dictator!” said Jean-Claude Juncker cheerily to Hungary’s leader, Victor Orbán, at a European Union summit meeting a couple of years ago. ...

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