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Masters of misinformation

June 16, 2022   ·   0 Comments

by PETER MENZIES The Trudeau government has taken #fakenews, #alternativefacts, #misinformation, and #disin-formation to a whole new, breathtaking level. Last week, the Liberals introduced legislation ...

Is Baffin Island really that big?

by BRIAN LOCKHART There is a map of the world on the wall of my home office. I use it at various times when writing ...

Jealous gods

by GWYNNE DYER As everybody knows, the gods are thin-skinned, both the many gods of the classical pantheons (Greek, Roman, Hindu) and the jealous single ...

How to Stop Sea Level Rise

by GWYNNE DYER “Ninety percent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that lost from Greenland, travels ...

Loose lips, sink ships

by BRIAN LOCKHART There was a saying during the Second World War that went – ‘loose lips, sink ships.’ The idea behind the saying was ...

Overreaction to pandemic

by LEE HARDING COVID-19 just ain’t what it used to be. The SARS-CoV-2 virus was never as deadly as feared in its early days and ...

Safe online trading

by BRIAN LOCKHART The Orangeville Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police have set up a space in their parking lot that is to be used ...

Pain at the pumps

by BRIAN LOCKHART I put some gas in my tank the other day, and was shocked to see it is now over $2 per litre ...

Illogical election promises

by SAM ODROWSKI In what appears to be an attempt to score political points, Liberal Party of Ontario leader, Ste-ven Del Duca is going against ...

Where’s the Bypass?

OUR READERS WRITE Vehicle traffic in Shelburne continues to increase. Transport trucks, various sized aggregate haulers, other commercial vehicles, commuter and weekend tourism traffic continuously ...

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