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I know that we’re going to get into some “nerdy” stuff, as my parents told me, but bear with…

Bill 5 (Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act) continues to raise concerns around issues of…

For those who like country music like I do, the headline will be recognized as the song title by singer Sara Evans who made this very famous, and although it does have a different meaning in the song, it is how I felt....

By all accounts, food bank use is way up. No surprise there. So is the cost of food at the grocery store, and the season of budget-friendly produce at farm markets is over.

What would you think if all of a sudden, I were gone? As your local news reporter, would you think it strange if I suddenly disappeared without telling you I was leaving?

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation will be over for another year by the time you read this, but the message goes beyond the calendar date each year. 

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in recent weeks we have once again seen violence erupt in our…

There was a time when you knew what belonged on the road and what belonged on the sidewalk.

As I “made my rounds” on Friday morning, which is what I call checking my newsfeeds, I stumbled upon a story in which a father from North Bay was proving himself to be the antithesis of myself: he was arguing that his child should not have failed their drivers test for using features on his Tesla wh

Some on both right and left in the United States are condemning the murder of Charlie Kirk as an act of senseless violence, a tragedy. Ominously, others are referring to it as an act of war.

The chair of  the Avon Maitland District School Board (AMDSB) suggested local trustees focus on themselves in the first board meeting after the Ontario Education Minister’s comments about eliminating the school trustee position altogether.

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?

I was recently invited to participate in an op-ed campaign, which took my writing to a different editor who had never read any of my columns. She was impressed (for lack of a better word, in context) with what she called the suppressed fury in my writing.

Life is filled with challenges, uncertainties, and moments when fear seems overwhelming. Yet, in…