Case study
For the two dozen new candidates seeking a council seat, and for those playing along at home, the case of the burnt-out bathrooms in Ameliasburgh Park presents a timely and informative window into the workings of council and Shire Hall. Consider it an early primer. The facts are these: On May 16, 2017, public washrooms […]
Participate
We’re worried. Anxious, even. Understandably so. A deranged moron is in the White House, smashing a world order that has given most of us peace and stability for the past 70 years. Our lifetime. And rather than constrain their creature a majority of Republicans—when surveyed—continue to cheer him on. Where are we headed? What kind […]
$100 million
Cancelling Ontario’s White Pines could cost $100 million says company.” Nearly every major media outlet shouted the same headline, or a variation of it, last week upon the news that the new provincial government was moving to cancel the White Pines industrial wind project south of Milford. The threat from the developer was the story. […]
A place to live
The challenges of housing in Prince Edward County are plain. They are widely understood by anyone who has tried to rent an apartment or buy a house recently. Our community is rapidly becoming unaffordable to all but a very small segment of the population. This emerging crisis poses a threat to the viability of our […]
Nothing to add
It is sad and disappointing. The Globe and Mail story revealing Norm Hardie’s interactions with some staff, co-workers and others was well researched, thorough and utterly disheartening. That Hardie himself has since corroborated some of the claims is further dispiriting. The Times reporters and publisher, as well as this columnist, have been challenged in recent […]
Rules
Kathleen Wynne and her Liberal government have left the voters of Prince Edward County with a terrible parting gift—and the rest of Ontarians with an ugly precedent. On May 11, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) granted developer wpd Canada a Notice to Proceed, a document that clears the way for the developer to build […]
Rising threat
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke Donald Trump is becoming dangerous. The early months of his presidency were mostly a clown show of incompetence and bluster. But something more sinister is at work in recent weeks. He is, increasingly and more self-assuredly, […]
Sweet spot
It was a tortuous path. Pocked with landmines at every turn. So the folks at Shire Hall, led by Neil Carbone and Peter Moyer, are surely breathing considerably easier this week, after bravely and successfully emerging from this overly long ordeal—with a promising future for the convenience store at the corner of Wharf and Main […]
Hard choice
Todd Smith has been a strong representative for Prince Edward County. He has stood and argued tirelessly in the Ontario Legislature for sensible energy policies in this province and against the scourge of industrial wind turbines and massive solar farms that blight rural Ontario, in order to ease urban guilt. Todd Smith has battled fiercely […]
Wrong hill
Why is it that provincial Conservative governments so dislike poor people? It is disappointing, and bewildering, that among their first acts upon grasping the levers of power, is to seize upon the most fragile among us. Freshly elected in 1995, Mike Harris slashed social assistance by 21 per cent among his first acts as government. […]