By Dave Wilkin The Russia-Ukraine war has bogged down into a grinding destructive conflict. NATO country leaders continue to pledge to back Ukraine for ‘as long as it takes’, claiming that Russia’s war threatens the ‘international rules-based order’. Is this true? Framing it this way certainly plays well in the […]
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Listen Up! Some perspectives on food waste, energy and emissions: A guest post by Hugh Holland | Commentary
This Listen Up! guest post is by Hugh Holland. Hugh Mackenzie is taking a break from Listen Up! this week. By Hugh Holland Back in 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published an insightful but damning report titled Global Food Losses and Food Waste. At the time, […]
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Northlander train set order: A time to celebrate or remain vigilant? | Commentary
By Éric Boutilier The Government of Ontario may have finally taken its first real tangible step forward to make passenger rail service in the northeast a reality. The Associate Minister of Transportation, Stan Cho, and his ministerial colleagues — Victor Fedeli (MPP for Nipissing), George Pirie (Timmins), and Graydon Smith […]
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Listen Up! In defence of Doug Ford | Commentary
I bet that headline caught your attention! Yup, hold on to your hat because, in some areas, I believe the Premier of Ontario is getting a bum rap. Sometimes I think we expect our political leaders to be squeaky clean, above any kind of human frailty, immune to the realities […]
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From promises to purchase order!: Lucille Frith | Commentary
By Lucille Frith ‘Twas the week before Christmas and Stan Cho, Associate Minister of Transportation was at the North Bay train station to announce the purchase of three train sets for our Northlander route. No longer a promise but a $139,500,000 purchase order for three Siemens trainsets to be delivered by 2026. It has […]
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Listen Up! The way it is | Commentary
Any person with even a modest dose of PJS (Political Junkie Syndrome) will have watched with fascination, the antics as they unfolded in the United States House of Representatives this past week. It was a classic example of a rump group of extremists hijacking not only a political party but […]
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Time to start judging the judges: Sally Barnes | Commentary
By Sally Barnes The Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner is “outraged” that a 28-year-old member of his force was “essentially ambushed” and shot dead by a man who had a lifetime ban from possessing firearms and at the time of the shooting was out on bail facing 12 assault and firearm-related […]
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2022 In Review: Making progress on the big issues – MPP Graydon Smith
By Parry Sound-Muskoka MPP Graydon Smith As we enter 2023, I thought it would be an appropriate time to reflect on the year that was and the steps we’ve taken as a government to make our communities here in Parry Sound-Muskoka stronger and more resilient. Much progress was made over […]
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