By Patrick Flanagan Huntsville Doppler reported that the Capital Plan Development Task Force ‘heard that Muskoka’s population growth and aging are less than the provincial averages’. When I read a statement like that, my instinctive reaction is to ask whether it is correct. Here is what I found in census […]
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Listen Up! Trump’s whirlwind visit to Europe was a train wreck
The Last Straw A day or so ago a well-known London tabloid published a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump sitting in a favourite chair of Sir Winston Churchill, when he was visiting Prime Minister Theresa May at Chequers, her country home while she remains in office. Pasted across the […]
Read MoreOntario children put at risk with PC government’s sex education decision
Growing up in a home where sex was absolutely never discussed, I relied on the sex education taught to us in elementary and high school. If you haven’t already read or seen it in the news, the Ontario PC party has announced that the newly reformed sex-ed curriculum that was […]
Read MoreDisappointed with Ministry’s decision to scrap meeting with Indigenous leaders ~ Opinion
By Nathan Forestell ~ I am writing to express my sadness and extreme disappointment with the Ministry of Education’s decision to cancel the meeting with Indigenous leaders regarding indigenous curriculum revisions. Growing up and going to school in Trillium Lakelands District School Board, I can say that I was never […]
Read MoreListen Up! It is discouraging that many are unable to rise above their partisan beliefs
Double Standards … When it comes to politics, people and especially the media, can be very strange. For sure, many have double standards. For example, when Premier Wynne appointed an expert to shake up the health care system in Ontario for $427,551 per year, no one heard a whimper. When […]
Read MoreDear Uncle Sam, Happy Birthday and what the heck is going on? ~ Robert Hurst
Dear Uncle Sam, Happy Birthday. Hugs and kisses. You are, after all, our BFF. As Barack Obama said in March 2016, when he had the Trudeaus over for dinner, “What’s not to like?” Well, friendship takes two. From our perspective, Uncle Sam, we’re concerned about your state of mind. The […]
Read MoreListen Up! Let’s give Doug Ford a chance; he has earned that
Not a Bad Start … Ontario’s new government was sworn in this past Friday. Some people cheered while others did not. On Saturday, I read two opinion pieces about the ceremony at Queen’s Park. Both were written by people who were not Conservatives and were not supporters of Doug Ford. […]
Read MoreOne Muskoka is not for Huntsville ~ Hugh Holland
Here we go again. Gord Adams is running for District Chair and is trying to get headlines by resurrecting the One Muskoka idea. There would be three models to consider: Total centralization of district government as proposed by Mr. Adams, decentralization with each municipality on its own, and the hybrid […]
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