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Trash talk: Could cooperation be the answer?

Published on October 20, 2020 in Editorials by Lindsay Advocate

Recycling programs across Canada have been a failure. Canada recycles just nine per cent of its plastics, while the rest is dumped in landfill, incinerated, or ends up as litter. In 2000, when Kawartha Lakes first started a city-wide recycling program, all seven types of plastics were recycled.

Now almost none are eligible. Additionally, takeout coffee cups, Styrofoam, and aerosol cans are no longer permissible under the city’s new waste contract with Canada Fibers Ltd.

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Reduced city services show more money needed from federal partners

Published on September 12, 2020 in Editorials by Lindsay Advocate

At the end of July, Mayor Andy Letham warned that people were “going to notice” the service cuts that were coming. Ditching and brushing, grass-cutting and street sweeping, service centres and arenas — all of this and maybe more affected by the pandemic.

This is utter nonsense for citizens to have to accept.

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Basic Income Plus: Five demands for a better Canada

Published on August 3, 2020 in Editorials by Lindsay Advocate

Pandemics force us to take stock of our values in society; they clarify our sense of mortality and reveal how strong or weak our social fabric is.

More sensitized to our common humanity now, we must organize our economy to care for one another better.

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Pointing fingers vs. ensuring accountability

Published on July 19, 2020 in Editorials by Lindsay Advocate

Back in mid-March, if you didn’t have strong opinions about what the decision-makers were doing, you were in the minority.

Closing schools after March break was either ridiculous or not stringent enough. The NBA overreacted by shutting down so fast, and the federal government under-reacted by not shutting the border fast enough.

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