Opinion Columns
We need to talk about cats
Kawartha Lakes needs a more serious plan to deal with free-roaming 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.
Disability in Kawartha Lakes: A century of raising awareness
Just in Time local history series
In 1900, a letter from Samuel Suddaby, clerk of Somerville Township, crossed the desk of George Lytle, publisher of the Lindsay Watchman-Warder.
Shrink your carbon ‘foodprint’
Cool Tips for a Hot Planet series
Eat your vegetables. Parents are right about that.
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.
The electric road-trip acid test
I’d dreamed of taking my EV on a long road trip since I bought it in 2019.
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.
Satanic raisins and a lament for a fading summer
Is anyone else having trouble believing that we are already in late August? I mean seriously, where did the summer go?
