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,...
Reflections of a New Canadian on Voting in the October 2015 Federal Election
By Emmanuel Dizwani
Democracy is defined as a system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through...
A visitor from Cuba extends an open invitation
By Rob Lunan
Last Fall Jose Losada and his sister Raquel, visitors from Cuba, arrived in North Grenville on a special mission. North Grenville Times...
Door-to-door sales problem
On Friday, January 15, at 11:04 am, North Grenville resident Howard Hartley received a call from a man in a Philippines call centre who...
The Christmas Story
People have so many ways of relating to Christmas. Some people regard it simply as a secular holiday, a time of gift-giving and family...