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Editorial | Mar 11

Sing it proud

Nothing has erupted with such guttural force in the last few weeks than the prompt reaction to the prospect of having one miserable word changed in the national anthem.  

Good...

Letters | Mar 11

Kearney deserves better than mail-in vote decision

To the Editor:

In a 5-2 vote, with councillors Tomlinson and Wadsworth voting for the people, Kearney Council voted to rescind the mail-in–vote for the 2010 elections.

Just when most municipalities are trying to get a larger percentage of the population to vote, the Kearney...

Letters | Mar 11

Learning fathers' history makes reader weep

To the Editor:


Re: ‘Are you the descendant of a Home Child?’ Almaguin News, Feb. 25.

It was only on discovering that my late father Robert McNay, a resident in Armour Township and a former municipal clerk in Burk’s Falls, was a British Home Child (BHC), that I...

Letters | Mar 11

Waste is crippling local health services

To the Editor:


Many years ago “assisted housing” in Ontario was run by Ontario Housing Corp. and was directly responsible to the Ministry of Housing. Housing was and always will be a touchy subject and the government did not like answering all the questions in the house, as most...

Editorial | Mar 10

Sing it proud

Nothing has erupted with such guttural force in the last few weeks than the prompt reaction to the prospect of having one miserable word changed in the national anthem.  
Good fodder for water cooler conversation, the idea of eliminating the word ‘sons’ from the song that unites us sent...

Columns | Mar 10

Anthem should reflect all genders

Like all Canadians watching the Olympic Games, I was in awe of our athletes’ talent and elated by their successes.
But I also felt an unfortunately familiar anger over the exclusionary - let’s be clear here, sexist - language of our national anthem. Why did Hayley Wickenheiser or Christine...

Letters | Mar 10

Amalgamation bad for permanent residents

There have been many letters on the merits of amalgamation and how it would cure the ills of the area. However, none of the pro-amalgamation writers seem to be looking past their interests, which always seem to require immediate priority. Did any writers of the pro-amalgamation letters question in...

Letters | Mar 10

Reader questions Conservative promises

Here we go again.
We have a solid budget where no one suffers and the deficit will almost disappear in five years. Congratulations to the Conservative party. The same party that passed legislation to have elections every four years, then called the last election more than a year earlier, hoping...

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Columns

Columns | Mar 10

We are the keeper of our brother’s children

New parents stand out. Like the couple wheeling their little one into the big store the other day. Lots of fuss and attention to details. Everything had to be just right, apparently, before they could...

Columns | Mar 10

Wartime diary paints a fascinating picture

War in Val d’Orcia – An Italian War Diary 1943-44 by Iris Origo
There is a famous, much-photographed, Tuscan view of a long and winding road lined with cypress trees – the quintessential...

Columns | Mar 03

Springtime a precarious time for loggers

An early spring left loggers high and dry.
Early March was nail-biting time for the old-time lumber woods boss.   
Each time a “jobber” contracted to harvest a given quantity of...

Columns | Mar 03

Time to do away with standard tests

Back in the late 1990’s, way, way back in the days of Mike Harris and company, it was decided that all Ontario schools would be required to test every child in Grades 3, 6 and 9 for achievement levels...

Editorial

Editorial | Mar 10

Sing it proud

Nothing has erupted with such guttural force in the last few weeks than the prompt reaction to the prospect of having one miserable word changed in the national anthem.  

Good...

Editorial | Mar 04

No time to quit

We’re not ones to spend a lot of time watching, let alone recommending the commonest denominators of mediums, television.

Television can be a dangerous affair leading to inactivity, anti...

Editorial | Mar 03

Ideal 'great ones' in sport enrich others

It’s Sunday afternoon, Feb. 28, 2010. The hockey game between Canada and the USA had just begun. The phone rings. It’s our 23-month old granddaughter Cambria, with a message for her Oma: Go Canada...

Editorial | Mar 03

We own the podium

It was thought by many people that the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) was too hasty with its ‘Own the Podium’ campaign before the start of the 2010 games.

Now the same can be said of...

Letters

Letters | Mar 10

Bring high-speed Internet to rural Ontario, reader

For over a decade now, I have bored my friends and family to death with frequent complaints about the lack of availability of high-speed Internet where we live, that being Melissa, Ont.
During...

Letters | Mar 10

Friends of Norway Point seek mayor's apology

Friends of Norway Point Park have asked, on Feb. 8, for a written public apology from Lake of Bays mayor Janet Peake and Mike Wilmon, bylaw enforcement officer, and we have not received that...

Letters | Mar 10

Latest federal budget is more of the same story from the Conservatives

Here we go again.

We have a solid budget where no one suffers and the deficit will almost disappear in five years.

Congratulations to the Conservative party.

The...

Letters | Mar 10

Bring Algonquin Theatre manager back

To the power that be at the theatre:

It was with incredulity that I read in the Forester that Kern Terziano may have been relieved of her duties at the Algonquin Theatre.

What...

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