Timeline
A QHC PECMH explainer Each time QHC runs into financial difficulty, the pain is felt disproportionately in Prince Edward County Memorial and Trenton Memorial hospitals. Our coverage tends to pick up on the most recent issues, but readers have asked for a brief synopsis of the story until now. Here is our summary, presented in […]
Opaque
Councillor-elect Bill Roberts urges more transparency and accountability from QHC Do the residents of Prince Edward County understand the forces shaping healthcare and its funding in 2014? Do folks understand that we are an aging population with complex medical needs? Are we aware that a greater reliance on technology is driving higher costs in the system? […]
Island to island
Author and artist Shani Mootoo’s journey to the County Shani Mootoo was born on an island. She grew up on an island. It’s only fitting that the writer and artist should spend her golden years on a landmass surrounded by water. Which is just what she intends to do, here in the County. The writer, artist […]
Fatal crash
Sunday morning turned tragic when at 9:30 a.m. a car driven by 70-year-old Leona Bender failed to negotiate a curve on Highway 49 just north of the cement plant. Her car, a 2006 Chevrolet Uplander entered the ditch and struck a tree. Bender, a resident of Tyendinega First Nation, succumbed to injuries from the crash […]
Interconnected
Leaders gather to celebrate the building of a network By the end of the first decade of the third millennium, there was mounting evidence that communities in eastern Ontario were being left behind. Many complained we were on the wrong side of Toronto to compete for trade with U.S. markets. The Internet promised to be the […]
State of the foundation
National head of Community Foundations offers support and partnership It has been nearly five years since the County Community Foundation (CCF) was formed. It has generated impressive achievements—producing a landmark report on the health of the County that pointed to weaknesses in the safety net for those most vulnerable in our community. The CCF has also […]
Never ending nightmare
Heather Walters escaped domestic violence, only to come face-to-face with an unforgiving justice system It was the dead of night. With one of her five-year-old twins on her shoulders and the other clinging to her chest, watching her back, Heather Walters left her home. She had to hurry. The twins’ dad had a gun. She was betting […]
Inside Shire Hall
Peter Mertens looks back on four years in the mayor’s chair Peter Mertens easily summons a list of achievements when asked to look back upon his past four years as mayor: A top-to-bottom restructuring of the municipal organization; a stronger, more responsible financial platform, and a proactive initiative to encourage the development of housing designed […]
Bad science
Former Health Canada advisor offers searing criticism of industrial wind turbine study When Health Canada announced two years ago it would study the health impacts of industrial wind turbines, Dr. Robert McMurtry was skeptical. For some, it seemed an odd stance. McMurtry had worked for years documenting and presenting a growing mountain of data, research and case […]
Precarious perch
No one to take over the last County fishery It’s a cool, cloudy Sunday morning. The Deweys, Kendall and his wife, Joanne, have just returned to their Sophiasburgh home and fishery with their morning haul, sorted into bins. They unload everything into their processing facility—a tiny room that opens into their wooded, rural yard. Here, […]