Columns

Fall (the season not ‘falling down’) is now over and winter will shortly be on us. My doctors tell me to work on my exercise program as well as increasing my muscle mass by exercising the quad muscles.

If you walk through town on a weeknight, you might notice something odd. The streets are largely…

As the weather gets colder and winter snow begins to look like it will stay, there has been more talk about housing costs, how to get new housing constructed, how to deal with homelessness, and related topics.

All right, it’s time for you all to fess up. Who invited Old Man Winter? This snow has brought so…

Dear Editor: “The planning and management of drinking water sources should be undertaken on a watershed basis. Political boundaries should not be permitted to interfere with the watershed approach."

Dear Editor: There are two dates in Teeswater (South Bruce) that many residents will  remember.. 

As Ontario farmers prepare gather for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture’s Annual General Meeting on Nov. 25, it was a natural time to reflect on the year behind us — a year that has tested our resilience, unity, and determination like few others.

Police have launched their annual campaign against impaired driving. One would think that after decades of education and enforcement programs, the annual festive RIDE would be unnecessary, but this is not the case.

It’s a tough gig being an elected official – there’s no doubt about that. When you take the oath of office, or whatever the equivalent is for your position, people expect a lot of you, and I’m no exception to having those expectations. I expect the people who are elected to represent me or to make..

Dear Editor: While most rural weeklies haven’t reported on it yet, Ontario has just taken a major step toward eliminating locally elected school trustees and replacing them with a single, centralized “Student and Family Support Office” in every school board.

Dear Editor: Imagine someone you love deeply, a spouse, a parent, a best friend, or a favourite aunt or uncle, facing the last few days or weeks of life...

They did it! The anti-vax crowd finally achieved what some folks suspect may have been their goal all along – to turn back the clock to a time when there was no one telling parents they had to get their kids vaccinated. 

Dear Editor, Back when the Walkerton tragedy made headlines worldwide, the moral was simple enough for a grade-school science fair: don’t let people who know nothing about water run the show.