– by David McLeish
I grew up in northern Canada. Back then things called fire breaks were used to protect communities from wildfires.
A road or a ring of cleared vegetation was used to reduce the spread of wildfire ...
– by Miranda Miller
Last week, a man walking his dog off-leash lost control of his pet, which killed several laying hens at a friend's farm. He and the dog trespassed 100 metres onto the farm property and damaged the electric fence in the process.
When confronted, the man tossed $20 at the person present and left the scene with his dog ...
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
Coming off the clear calm water at the east side boat launch this morning, we found the dry land strewn with a gull family's breakfast.
This smorgasbord of garbage – from Macdonalds, Wendys, KFC, Tim Hortons, some home-made lunches and a diaper – was not litter.
- by David McLaren
Doug Ford has learned an old trick from his buddy Mike Harris: how to drive a dump truck through our public system. Remember John ‘Create-a-Crisis’ Snobelen? He wanted to privatize as much as he could of the public education system. His modus operandi was first to bankrupt the system we had.
Mr Ford is starving the public health care sector by holding nurses’ wage increases to 1%. That was struck down by the courts ...
- Michael Craig, Owen Sound trustee for the Bluewater District School Board, representing his opinions, not official Board policy
In April, a group called Get Real was invited to speak to students in several Bluewater DSB schools. Their agenda, as explained on their web site, is to combat “homophobic, transphobic, and racist language” with “friendly, honest, diverse, and personal-story driven” discussions around sex, gender and race.
The Get Real message is welcome in Bluewater schools
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