Naughty or Nice … It is that time of year again. Somewhere well North of here, old St. Nick is getting ready for his annual sleigh ride around the Globe. And we all know that means he is checking his list, some say twice, to find out who has…
By David Wilkin, Masters, Electrical Eng., P. Eng The media is filled with global-warming predictions and warnings, with climate experts and national political leaders calling for more action, yet many in democratic countries are not onside with the current climate policies: Ontario voters removed a 15-year Liberal government largely over…
Nostalgia This week, Huntsville’s new Council will be sworn into office. In some ways it will be much like the last one. Scott Aitchison will begin his second term as mayor and seven of the eight councillors around the table have also been there before. Only Dione Schumacher is…
This article was originally published on The Conversation. By Alison Braley-Rattai, Assistant Professor, Brock University Bill C-89 recently passed third reading in the Senate, its final hurdle before becoming law. The bill ended the rotating strikes that the Canadian Union of Postal Workers had engaged in for more than a month…
Creeps, Consent and Cause/Effect … Hi everyone – I’m Kathleen, your local opinionated women’s rights activist, or as some people call us, man-haters. Just kidding. #notallmen I’m writing this because I noticed that, as a community, perhaps as a society, our standards for those governing us have become absolutely…
It’s time to deal with bullying … After the columns I have written in the last two weeks, I had decided to tone things down a little and write about something less controversial. Maybe about the mail strike or how some favoured newspapers and journalists could look forward to…