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The loss of our first pet

September 11, 2025   ·   0 Comments

By Keith Schell The very first pet our family ever had was a young, jet-black stray tomcat who appeared out of nowhere one day at ...

Monthly Message: Restful nights, ready mornings – supporting sleep as school starts

By WonderTree As summer winds down, many families face a familiar challenge: getting kids back into a healthy sleep routine for school. Late nights, irregular ...

Don’t dilute democracy in education

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 ...

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