Education Minister praises Indigenous students’ presentation on Residential Schools then axes new curriculum
On Sunday last (July 8th), my partner and I were attending a Truth and Reconciliation Dinner at a church in Southampton. We found ourselves...
Grandmother disappointed with governments retreat on sex-ed
Open letter to:
Douglas Ford, Premier of Ontario/Lisa Thompson, Ontario Minister of Education
As a mother and grandmother, I must express my great disappointment and utter...
Expert weighs in on reader’s question
To the Editor:
I think this is a Monarch Caterpillar, but could anyone tell me what the other things are on the same Milkweed plant?
Monarch...
Reader finds article thought-provoking
To the Editor:
A very thought provoking article that will make me re-examine some of my own pre-conceived biases.
June van B.
Confrontation on the picket line
Management at the Family Health Organization is publicly blaming its striking employees for the collapse of a woman at the Medical Centre in Owen Sound. They...
A Senior Moment: ‘Us and Them’
“---we have a national identity, we are proud of it, you come into this country you have to integrate, you have to learn our...
A Senior Moment: ‘The Other’
Along with several grade two classmates, I would eagerly escape our public elementary school promptly at 3:30.
Once off the property on one particular afternoon,...
Kudos … & NOTs! by ‘The Stix Man’
Kudos
This is a story that I’ve wanted to tell for a while. It started after my stroke in February of 2017.
As I’ve said, the...
Local Paralympian positive in spite of setbacks
Local Bruce County Paralympian, Josh Cassidy, has always maintained that "Adversity makes you better" but sometimes when you come up against a bureaucracy, it...
Kincardine celebrates Pride
To the Editor:
In a long and proud line of Pride celebrations in many locations throughout Pride month, Kincardine Pride gets it done.
In a show of...
