Highway 6 from Chatsworth Sideroad 5/Walker Sideroad, south to Chatsworth Road 24, Williamsford, in the Township of Chatsworth is closed due to flooding. Several homes have been evacuated.
Grey County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the Chatsworth Fire Department, the Chatsworth Township Roads Department, and other emergency crews are at the scene. Hydro has been shut off in the area as a safety precaution.
The Williamsford Community Centre has been opened as an evacuation centre for those...
-by Kaarina Mikalson
In the wake of this awful verdict, I have recalled something strange: the number of times men have assured me–and each other in my presence–that they would never hit a woman.
There are two elements of this I find frustrating:
1) That they need to say this; that the default is that men would hit women, and they have chosen to deviate from it.
2) That this statement is worthy of praise, or at least ...
This past Tuesday (April 19th) brought us Métissage: from Newash to Mudtown, Set 2,Ring That Bell. Larry Jensen (musician and poet), Mary Little (visual artist), Susan Schank (historian & aboriginal hand-drummer), Richard-Yves Sitoski (poet), Rob Rolfe (poet, labour leader) completed the presentation they introduced on April 5th Métissage: from Newash to Mudtown, Set 1, Corkscrew City. The audience found Set 2 as...
Dear Editor,
I write to you today to express my concerns about the recent budget that was presented by the Government in the House of Commons on March 22nd. This letter serves to present my main concerns with the budget and the impacts that it will have on our country as we move forward.
My first concern is about the size of the deficits that this Government has decided to run. During the campaign, Prime Minister Trudeau promised to run what he called "modest" deficits of $10 billion/year before returning to a balanced budget. Budget 2016 misses this target by a mile. This budget projects deficits of $5.4 billion this year,
$29.4 billion in 2016-17,
$29.0 billion in 2017-18,
$22.8 billion in 2018-19,
$17.7 billion in 2019-20, and
$14.3 billion in 2020-21.
To me, these are not "modest" deficits and are certainly much greater than the promised $10 billion. Worst of all, the Government did not even present a
Spring rain is supposed to soften the earth, release shoots of daffodil and tulip, turn the grass green. But what is supposed to happen does not always occur. Warm air pushes up from the deep south, but artic cold lingers, chills the air near the earth.
Water falls. On the warm window of the house it runs downward, but on the ...
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