Editorials

All eyes are on Chrystia Freeland now as Canada’s finance minister gets set to table the nation’s first budget in… Continue reading “Budget wish list: Basic income, affordable housing, a green economy and more”

Twenty years ago this month, Victoria County ceased to exist. In its place the City of Kawartha Lakes was born,… Continue reading “Amalgamation: All for one, one for all”

Terms like “desperate” have been used to describe the need for more rental housing of all kinds in Kawartha Lakes… Continue reading “City in need of more rental housing”

Recycling programs across Canada have been a failure. Canada recycles just nine per cent of its plastics, while the rest… Continue reading “Trash talk: Could cooperation be the answer?”

At the end of July, Mayor Andy Letham warned that people were “going to notice” the service cuts that were… Continue reading “Reduced city services show more money needed from federal partners”

Pandemics force us to take stock of our values in society; they clarify our sense of mortality and reveal how… Continue reading “Basic Income Plus: Five demands for a better Canada”

Back in mid-March, if you didn’t have strong opinions about what the decision-makers were doing, you were in the minority…. Continue reading “Pointing fingers vs. ensuring accountability”