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Listen Up! What motivates people to seek public office in today’s toxic, populist, unproductive political climate?
Perhaps it’s just the lousy weather we have had this Spring, but I am having a hard time [...]
Surprise, surprise! Ontario’s carbon-tax stickers only tell part of the story ~ Patrick Flanagan
The Ontario government wants gas station operators to display their carbon-tax stickers by [...]
How will climate change affect Muskoka? ~ Lesley Hastie
There is a high probability that our planet will be irrevocably changed for the worse, and life [...]
Listen Up! If there is such a thing as a dirty word, genocide tops the list
In the five years or so that I have been writing my weekly column Listen Up!, I have tried to [...]
Local retired school teachers express concerns with direction education in Ontario is headed
Authored by Mary Spring, Terri Howell, and Susan Lovell We, three retired rural teachers, are [...]
Listen Up! There are more important things than beer
It was Queen Victoria who said something like this. “Give my people beer. Give them good beer. [...]
She Speaks: Who are you really mad at?
When we get upset with working class people who are fighting for a living wage, when we say [...]

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