Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor: The recent musings coming from the provincial government and their spreadsheet bean counters should be a wake-up call here in rural Ontario. But have you ever noticed how the “cult of efficiency” always looks really efficient on paper?

Dear Editor; Two words of the week – C-A-P-I-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N. A ten-dollar word meaning: “You got pushed, you got shoved, and instead of pushing back, you bent over and said, ‘Thank you, sir, may I have another?’”

Dear Editor, Re: Gone in 60 seconds.

Dear Editor: Prime Minister Mark Carney seems quite frustrated these days in dealing with the scatterbrain trade tactics of Donald Trump. And it appears he has almost emptied the cupboard of possible concessions.

Dear Editor: Here we go again! It has not even been a year since they left town and the Nuclear Waste Management Organization is back on the doorstep of the Municipality of South Bruce asking to “come in.” And council opened the door! 

Dear Editor: On June 24 Brockton Mayor Chris Peabody put forward a Notice of Motion – an announcement that a motion would be brought forward to be voted on at the next municipal council meeting. The contents of that motion can be found on the brockton.ca website, in the June 24 meeting agenda.

Well, it finally happened. Sauble Beach is now Saugeen Beach. Cue the gasps, eye-rolls, and grumbles from those who think changing a sign is the end of civilization as we know it.

Boys will be Boys and boys need their toys. And if they wanna play in Trump’s sandbox...they better bring their own.

Dear Editor: I’m writing today with a modest proposal: let’s continue allowing developers to build subdivisions in our quaint little village without charging them a single dime in development fees.

Dear Editor: It is just over six months since the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) left South Bruce and chose the township of Ignace as the location for the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for high level nuclear waste.

Dear Editor: With the last meeting of the festival executive, the story of the 2025 Midwestern Ontario Rotary Music Festival was closed. It was again deemed

It seems that the character and characteristics of the current provincial government that the Brockton council so embrace have surfaced lately. The reported heated discussions at the most recent budget meeting of council and the flip-flop and rescinding of earlier decisions really echoes the behavio

How many people know that Midwestern Newspapers Corporation has had its very existence under threat through the past many weeks, because the federal government might have discontinued its Local Journalism Initiative (LJI) fund?

It is hard for me to believe that a farm drainage company from Ailsa Craig could be so disrespecting to land owner’s properties. A truly professional company would have asked the landowner which trees, if any, we would like to be left standing.

On Feb. 26, Protect Our Waterways – No Nuclear Waste presented a delegation before council to request that a paper ballot referendum be used to decide if South Bruce, near Teeswater, accepts a deep underground tunnel system with hot cells and a repackaging plant above ground. Saying ‘yes’ would put