By Agatha Farmer “The working poor haven’t abdicated responsibility for their lives. They’re drowning in it.” – Ezra Klein, Washington Post If your day begins the night before with lunch and next day’s breakfast prep, your wake up call is at 6 a.m. and you are out of the house…
The Devil They Know Let me get this straight. Kathleen Wynne is going to cut my Hydro bill by 25 per cent next month. Correct? Not so fast. First of all, from the beginning of the year, she has increased my Hydro bill by 70 per cent even though we…
At what point should the government be subsidizing journalism? I would say at no point but that ship left the harbour a long time ago. It started innocently enough, at the beginning of the last century, when broadcasting first came on the scene. The Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) was set…
By Sparky Smith Aspdin Road Resident and Business Owner People in the area may not know that our tourism and Skeleton Lake, Lake Rosseau and Lake Joseph are under threat. The Township of Muskoka Lakes is considering a rezoning application which would allow the establishment of a rock/gravel quarry and…
Every time talk turns to an increase in minimum wage, dire warnings abound about the imminent death of business. But, to paraphrase Mark Twain’s famous quip, the report of the death of business is greatly exaggerated. Three years ago when a tiny increase was made in the minimum wage after…
Let’s not miss the point. It is not my usual practise to write about the same topic two weeks in a row but today I am going to make an exception. During this past week, Mayor Scott Aitchison published an open letter in relation to Accelerate Muskoka. We posted…