Who’s listening?
Who will represent us in 2014? In October, we will go back to the polls to choose the folks who will govern the County for the next four years. Who will look after our interests best? Who will spend our tax dollars wisely and respect the hard work by which they were earned? Who will […]
Now, more than ever
The folks who are the Prince Edward County Field Naturalists have faced an array of well-financed and motivated opponents so far in their struggle to protect the habitat and endangered species threatened by the development of nine industrial wind turbines on Ostrander Point, a rugged and largely unspoiled bit of shoreline in South Marysburgh. The […]
Fearless
Few had any idea what they were running toward. But from across the County dozens of volunteer firefighters stopped what they were doing on Monday morning and sped to Wellington. No amount of training could have prepared them for what they found there. A truck carrying tens of thousands of litres of liquid propane was […]
The cure
Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital is the best community hospital in Ontario, according to its patients. That is now an established fact. Folks here have known it all along. Now everyone does. It cannot be denied nor diminished. It cannot be dismissed as “sitebased protectionism” as Scott Rowand described this community’s fierce loyalty to its […]
Assets
The municipality of Prince Edward has a lot of stuff. Hundreds of miles of roads, dozens of bridges and many miles of pipe—some to carry water to our homes— others to carry it away. Our municipality owns trucks, graders and fire engines. It has more than 120 properties it knows about— more than 80 these […]
In other news
Canada’s jobs numbers are generally improving in 2013. Ontario’s job picture, however, is getting worse. Overall Canada’s economy added 13,200 jobs in October, nudging the jobless percentage below seven per cent for the second straight month. While Quebec, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland were adding new jobs, Ontario lost 14,700 jobs last month, pushing the unemployment rate […]
Two minutes
How are we to remember? They weren’t our stories. Not our experiences. My dear friend Ralph Margetson presses me with increasing urgency to remind readers of the price paid in war. The lost lives. Broken bodies. Wrecked families. Bright futures torn to shreds and scattered on the wind. But how do we do that? Or, […]
Searching
Adeep dark sadness has gripped this community and much of the County in the days since Sandy Rutherford failed to return home from an afternoon of fishing on West Lake. It is now more than a week since he pushed his Zodiac out into the lake on a late autumn Saturday afternoon. The boat has […]
Split
Justice Marc Nadon has had a bumpy ride on his ascendancy to the Supreme Court. Questions have arisen about his qualifications and the truthiness of his claim to have once been a draft pick of the Detroit Red Wings. (It turns out he was at best scouted by the Red Wings team, but was never […]
Might v. right
It’s an obscenely unfair fight. I expect most people would intervene if they happened upon such a lopsided clash on the street. Or call the police. They would do something. It runs directly against our core sense of fair play. Of justice. Consider the spectacle on display in a Toronto court room next week. On […]