- by Phil McNichol
You could have knocked me over with a feather when I heard the propane truck backing down the driveway the other day. It hadn’t been that long ago, I thought, that I had the two tanks feeding the furnace filled up.
Turned out ...
- By Abbi Barrie
Maybe you’ve heard someone say that what happened to you made you stronger, or perhaps you’ve even said this to someone who experienced sexual violence. What does it mean when we say this? The message we are trying to send is that despite what happened to us, we have survived and we are strong because of it. Often when we’re coming from a good place and we don’t know what else to say, we fall on phrases like this. Or perhaps we just don’t feel comfortable with any “negativity” and as a result, we have to find a positive spin for everything. So, what’s the problem with this well-intended, seemingly positive line?
- by David Clark
Municipal budgets come with really big numbers attached for various projects and operational costs. For most of us it is very hard to comprehend big numbers, like $55,000,000, which is the Owen Sound budget for 2022.
Always the impact of the budget is presented as how much of a tax increase (or if we are really, really lucky, a decrease!) will it have on a home with the “average” assessed value. Let’s look at this big number in a slightly different way. ...
- by Douglas Nadler
“Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.” – António Guterres, Secretary-general of the United Nations
“Letter to Cabinet: Reject Bay du Nord and focus on a fair transition for Newfoundland and Labrador” – Sierra Club Canada ...
- by Meg Dean
I care for my 95 year old mother with dementia in her home full time.
I don't think the government is getting to the root causes of the PSW shortages. They seem to believe it is entirely a matter of getting enough people trained and providing perhaps inadequate pay increases. I think that retention is a major ...
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