Happy New Year!

January 3, 2019 · 0 Comments

Written by BRIAN LOCKHART You can thank Julius Caesar and his Pagan ways for establishing January 1 as the start of each new year. It’s ...

Canadian Medical Association: Is the application process fair, or a farce?

OUR READERS WRITE After hearing the news a few months ago, on the issue where the hospitals will find themselves “understaffed” due to the departure ...

Christmas memories

BY BRIAN LOCKHART Everyone has that favourite Christmas memory. Maybe it was that time you really did find a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200 shot ...

Consulting firm gaffe

OUR READERS WRITE Your recent article “Consulting group identifies 12 ‘big moves’ to revitalize Shelburne” compelled me to write you a few words. One ...

Wrong Agenda

SHORT EDITORIAL There was certainly a chill in the air when Canada’s first ministers met in Montréal on the weekend. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, in ...

Could anything be done?

EDITORIAL ONE STORY GIVEN precious little attention by most Canadian newspapers concerns an investigation by the federal Competition Bureau into a deal by the country’s ...

Orwell

Written by BRIAN LOCKHART I rarely, if ever, use a quote from another person to pass on words of wisdom or some other profound utterance, ...

Honest goods

SHORT EDITORIAL As part of the collective known as the electorate, we rely on our politicians to deliver us the straight and honest goods. But ...

Political carbon follies

EDITORIAL MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE has been in the news recently, with all sorts of indications that politics will ultimately kill any attempts to deal effectively ...