“You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”
Dear Editor:
What a shame! In the name of progress, we are losing a bit more of our green space and natural ecological habitat! This...
Procedural By-law against Charter of Rights says reader
Council has successfully preserved its destruction of Democracy in Saugeen Shores.
Procedural rule 14.11 provides:
“A delegation, once heard, shall not be entitled to be...
A SENIOR MOMENT – “FAREWELL TO WELFARE?”
On July 31, the Ontario Government announced it would be scrapping the Guaranteed Basic Income program (G.B.I) which had been implemented on a trial...
Grandmother disappointed with governments retreat on sex-ed
Open letter to:
Douglas Ford, Premier of Ontario/Lisa Thompson, Ontario Minister of Education
As a mother and grandmother, I must express my great disappointment and utter...
Education Minister praises Indigenous students’ presentation on Residential Schools then axes new curriculum
On Sunday last (July 8th), my partner and I were attending a Truth and Reconciliation Dinner at a church in Southampton. We found ourselves...
Local Paralympian positive in spite of setbacks
Local Bruce County Paralympian, Josh Cassidy, has always maintained that "Adversity makes you better" but sometimes when you come up against a bureaucracy, it...
Expert weighs in on reader’s question
To the Editor:
I think this is a Monarch Caterpillar, but could anyone tell me what the other things are on the same Milkweed plant?
Monarch...
Readers positive over new ‘look’
Well, here we are - exactly one week since our newly designed sites were launched.
Like starting any new project, the re-design of our publications...
Small, hard working businesses should be supported
To the Editor:
Andy and the train have been very much a part of Port Elgin and family fun at the beach.
It is very sad...
A Senior Moment: ‘Us and Them’
“---we have a national identity, we are proud of it, you come into this country you have to integrate, you have to learn our...
Principal Dan Russell leaves a legacy
With only four years until retirement, Russell is moving on to Alexandra Community School in Owen Sound, which is near his home.
It will however,...
A Senior Moment: ‘The Other’
Along with several grade two classmates, I would eagerly escape our public elementary school promptly at 3:30.
Once off the property on one particular afternoon,...
A Senior Moment: ‘The Other Kennedy’
June 5th will mark the 50th anniversary of the violent death of Bobby Kennedy, a presidential candidate felled by Sirhan Sirhan’s bullet at the...
A Senior Moment: ‘Who Am I?’
Earlier this month I found myself back in high school. It was just after Mental Health Week in Ontario and I had been invited...
