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Don’t dilute democracy in education

September 11, 2025   ·   0 Comments

By Councillor Tess Prendergast The provincial government is now openly musing about eliminating elected school board trustees. Education Minister Paul Calandra has suggested that Ontario’s ...

Monthly Message: Orangeville Food Bank Shares why Hunger Action Month matters more than ever

September is Hunger Action Month — a time when food banks across Canada invite their communities to learn, share, and act together. For me, as ...

You don’t agree?

By Brian Lockhart As a columnist, I don’t expect everyone to agree with my opinion. It would be a very boring world if we all ...

Blowing in the wind

By Constance Scrafield There is a sort-of writing club that invites submissions as a competition to win some small sum or to have one’s effort ...

Grandparents Day

By Jasen Obermeyer This upcoming Sunday is Grandparents Day, and weirdly, it’s not as advertised, known, and worse, celebrated as Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. ...

Look past the stats & numbers

By Jasen Obermeyer Statistics and numbers don’t lie. But they don’t tell the whole truth. It seems we rely so heavily on them in today’s ...

Blowing in the wind

By Anthony Carnovale If there was a sound that defined the summer of 2025 for me, and for most of my neighbours, it would be ...

Cultural appropriation

By Brian Lockhart If you’re a man and have attended a wedding or funeral recently and worn a suit of some kind, most likely you wore ...

Africa: The cartographic and demographic truth

By Gwynne Dyer Two Africa-based advocacy groups, ‘Africa No Filter’ and ‘Speak Up Africa’, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April. “When whole generations, ...

Monthly Message: FTP to host Community Appreciation Open House for 40th anniversary

Family Transition Place (FTP) invites the community to celebrate 40 years of providing hope to Dufferin and Caledon at an open house this September. This ...

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