Weighty matters
I don’t know about you, but I get quite a lot of my news from Facebook. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely appreciate typical...
Greetings from away
What’s up North Grenville? It’s been a while, and I’ve missed being a part of the goings-on in the community. I’ve been keeping tabs...
A new and disturbing era in human history
A growing number of scientists, environmentalists and other experts have come to the conclusion that the human race has had such a deep and...
Going Places: Rural Transit?
By Jim Bertram
A few weeks ago, I read some interesting articles on the general subject of care for seniors as they grow older. One...
What keeps me awake at night
by Christine Milks
My nightmares now involve our food being controlled by corporations, especially foreign corporations, and how easily “we” have allowed this to happen....
The Fools on the Hill
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you can depend on our political class to present us with a whole new level of...
Remembering Blake
My name is Wesley Finner. I’m a ten-year-old boy from Kemptville, Ontario. This Remembrance Day a lot of people will go to ceremonies to...
Small Houses: A common-sense alternative?
By John Pankhurst
We build big homes in Canada. A new single-detached house in 2013 was about 2,000 square feet on average, according to the...
Metroland move further away
The corporate newspaper industry in Canada is facing hard times, and has been for some time now. The large chains are cutting jobs, even...
We are all Treaty people…
For thousands of years before Europeans arrived in this area, the forests, rivers and lakes knew other people: people who lived with the land,...