Unstoppable

by Nancy Peckford My maternal grandmother was a remarkable woman. Born into an impoverished fishing family on the southwest coast of Newfoundland, she had seen...

A bath with a toaster

Curiosity is not a sin. Humans are curious by nature, and being curious is a driving force behind learning and discovering. There will always...

Editorial: A Municipal Wish List

This is the season for wishes, so let us make some municipal wishes. Our wishes would include a municipal swimming pool, a cheese factory,...

Not dark yet

Over the past weeks, there have been a lot of rumours going around about the proposed prison to be built on the outskirts of...

Our home and Native Land

In the middle of all the dramatic media coverage of the Indigenous Residential Schools issue over the last year, it became very clear that...

Champions of the truth for local communities

What is a community? This seems like a particularly dumb question, but it’s really not. Communities vary in size, number of amenities, and even...

Canada in the news

The people of the United Kingdom are facing a choice in June: whether to stay in, or leave the European Union (once known as...

I read the news today

This is National Newspaper Week in Canada: a chance to think about the place of the print media in society today and the growing...

We shall overcome

Let’s face it: most of us are thoroughly fed up with covid, restrictions, and all the other irritating aspects of life these days. And...

The sounds of silence

Newspapers, social media, tv and radio, all ways of informing people, broadcasting news and information, are essential to any healthy society, and are at...