Ontario’s liquor laws offer bittersweet local market protection When David O’Connor buys wine for his Wellington restaurant, East & Main Bistro, he pays the same price any consumer pays either at the LCBO or at the winery. Wine producers, unlike any other of David’s suppliers, are prohibited from extending wholesale or volume pricing to restaurants [...]
Alarming number of concussions in hockey worries Family Health Team doctor Eight NHL players were sidelined just last week. The list of hockey players suffering from concussion symptoms has become a minor epidemic claiming some of the best players in the world. The careers of stars like Sidney Crosby and Chris Pronger are in limbo [...]
New CAO launches review of County services and facilities Prepare to fight for the things you love about County services, buildings and properties in 2012. As the County’s new chief administrative officer scans his new dominion—he sees a place attempting to do too much with too little and doing a bad job of it in [...]
As the year draws to a close, here’s a home-grown list of some of my favourite County initiatives of 2011. Community radio. An elected board is paving the way for a community-owned, County-wide broadcast with truly local programming. Awesome. Sounding Ground. Festival Players had an outstanding fifth season, but the most innovative and exciting part, [...]
While campaigning last year, mayoral candidate Monica Alyea used a pumpkin when talking about the County’s finances. The pumpkin was held aloft in a couple of pieces. The large portion— roughly three-quarters of the total— was meant to illustrate the size of the municipality’s mandated funding: expenses over which the local government pays the bill [...]
County prepares for festive season-despite a sad lack of snow Adorned in sparkling accessories, Carolyn Barnes spreads good cheer at a Christmas event on Sunday at Hillier House. Tweet
Dukes head to winter break on an untidy note It was a strange spectacle. More childish than intimidating. After submitting themselves to an 8-2 drubbing at the hands of the Dukes on Friday night in front of a large contingent of Wellington fans, a dozen or more Golden Hawks players stared down the victors as [...]
Only four days to go before we celebrate Christmas. At first a religious holiday, it has been of tremendous importance for many faiths throughout the ages. From the very beginnings of Christianity, the holiday took on a gravitas that required celebration in a purely religious form. Even so, kings throughout the Christian world celebrated this [...]
Mike Murphy dressed for the recent game between his Carolina Hurricanes and the Toronto Maple Leafs. He has been rehearsing, so to speak, for his chance to play in the National Hockey League for some time. Following his stellar OHL career with the Belleville Bulls, he was drafted by the Hurricanes, and signed a three-year, [...]
Every year, as the joyous holiday season approaches, I seem to get involved in arguments with people from all over Ontario, who are outraged that saying “Merry Christmas” has been banned by big corporations, government, and generally by people of “other faiths” who are exerting pressure everywhere to crush the Number One Christian holiday. They [...]