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A different kind of bucket list
I’m just one person. What I do is a drop in the bucket.
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The latest Opinion Columns stories from Lindsay and the City of Kawartha Lakes.
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Five years of the Advocate magazine
I still remember telling my Grade 4 teacher, Nancy Graham, that I wanted to be a writer when I grew up.
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Made where?
There are many different considerations that go into purchasing something, at least for most people.
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Baby, it's hot outside
My good friend’s granddaughter was born shortly after the Paris climate accord was signed.
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Unions: Too powerful or too weak?
I remember having a discussion with my late father about unions, somewhere around 1990. He told me they were “a good thing once.”
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Rechecking my assumptions
A year ago in this space I opined how February was the worst month of the year and that it sucks beyond measure.
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Black History Month can help promote unity and inclusion
There are many who ask why we need Black History Month, celebrated each February.
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Happy Hour
Those of us of a certain age will remember, back when our local radio station was on the a.m. dial, the noon in memoriam announcements.
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The Young and the Not-so-Stressless
My beautiful daughter was born in 1995 — the same year the UN’s climate panel published its second report. It said our actions had the potential to change Earth’s climate “to an extent unprecedented in human history.”
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My New Year’s Res-Illusions
According to a 2016 American study, 91 per cent of people don’t follow through on their resolutions.
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Where's the bus?
The map of the GO bus service in our region is a surreal portrait of public transit dysfunction for Kawartha Lakes.
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Christmas conspiracy
Yeah. It’s Christmas time again. Even saying it pains me. Christmas is just not my thing, and not because my vegetarian tofurkey is almost as bad as it sounds.
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Dress for climate success
When I was born my grandma and her sister made me a yellow cotton quilt in a pattern known as Dutch girl.
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Basic income still alive as a policy option
Floyd Marinescu is a Canadian CEO who has an interesting hotel story.
Environment
Time flies. Should we?
When my daughter headed off to university in 2014, we promised her a family trip to Europe after graduation. In 2019, we fulfilled that promise.
Municipal
Five things I learned at the swearing in of the new council
The swearing in of a new council is like no other event for someone like myself who covers the nitty-gritty of municipal government.
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Bill 28: Ford government shows it has no respect for democracy
The Ontario government has introduced Bill 28, an act to prevent and outlaw strike action by 55,000 education workers across the province.
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10 things I learned about municipal politics in Kawartha Lakes
Every election is an event unto itself, and much can be learned from each and every election cycle.
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We need to talk about cats
In June, Kawartha Lakes City Council voted to adopt a two-year stray and feral cat pilot program requiring pets to be licensed, prohibiting free-roaming cats beyond one’s private property, and increasing funds for current stray management.
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Tackling climate change: If not now, when? If not us, who?
I don’t like writing or talking about climate change. I feel like such a “gloom and doomer,” a “David Downer,” a party pooper.
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The electric road-trip acid test
I’d dreamed of taking my EV on a long road trip since I bought it in 2019.
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The New-Green Libservative Party of Canada
A friend of mine confided she often finds it difficult to know which way to vote, since no one party’s platform seems to completely resonate with her. I feel her pain.