February 2017 Archive

Mission Team 2017 from schools goes above and beyond in Dominican Republic

By Mark Pavilons Poverty is not the problem. Helping others, here or abroad, is in our hands. Those hands were put to very good use ...

Wingfield’s Progress is still fresh and fabulous

By Constance Scrafield When Walt Wingfield decides to run for a seat in the local council to fight off a condo development on the 7th ...

Hundreds attend Shelburne Vigil in response to mosque massacre

By Marni Walsh Organizers of a Shelburne vigil, held in solidarity with the Muslim community in the wake of the Quebec City violence a week ...

Cut bureaucracy

The short sightedness of all our governments is unbelievable in 2016-17 times. In the “dark Middle Ages,” the princes, dukes and counts were doing right ...

Editorial — The common thread: extremism

At first blush, the two events seemed to bear no relationship to one another. The one event took place in Washington D.C., when President Donald ...

Editorial Cartoon — Feb. 9, 2017

Bill Rea — Super Bowl is done for another year

I am writing this week about my observations of the Super Bowl, with a couple of my memories being thrown in for reasonably good measure. ...

Talk of the Town by Mayor Allan Thompson — Tuesday is Hazel McCallion Day in Ontario

So many good things have been happening here in the Town of Caledon this past month. We have partnered with our high schools, Toronto and ...

Ottawa Journal by David Tilson MP — National Flag of Canada Day is coming next week

The Canadian flag is arguably the most revered and important of all the symbols of Canada. We fly our red and white flag with tremendous ...

From Queen’s Park by Sylvia Jones MPP — Words matter

Jan. 29 should have been just another day. Unfortunately, because of the terrible tragedy at the Centre culturel islamique de Québec in Quebec City, it ...

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