The Ontario government wants gas station operators to display their carbon-tax stickers by August 30. The government ‘for the people’ will use our tax dollars not only to produce and distribute the stickers, but also to enforce compliance and fight the court challenges that are expected to arise. In…
There is a high probability that our planet will be irrevocably changed for the worse, and life on earth damaged beyond repair in my family’s lifetime. This is my view of the result of unchecked climate change.
In the five years or so that I have been writing my weekly column Listen Up!, I have tried to deal with topics of interest, locally, nationally and internationally.
Authored by Mary Spring, Terri Howell, and Susan Lovell We, three retired rural teachers, are afraid of the direction the Ford government is taking education. Despite the fact that our education minister, Lisa Thompson, lives rurally, we do not believe she fully understands the challenges of going to…
It was Queen Victoria who said something like this. “Give my people beer. Give them good beer. Give them cheap beer and they will be happy.” Clearly, Premier Doug Ford must have heard about that, because he is passing legislation to allow the sale of beer and wine…
When we get upset with working class people who are fighting for a living wage, when we say they haven’t earned that and don’t deserve that and pummel them for details on Where Will The Money Come From, it is very conveniently forgotten that the Walton heirs (of Walmart…