Opinion Columns

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?

Time to walk and roll
Cool Tips for a Hot Planet series
During the pandemic a neighbour who found himself working from home walked off 80 pounds. We’d see him lapping the block multiple times a day. He’s still walking, sometimes with his son.

So many left behind — now we reap what we have sown
Despite all the discussion about how divided we are as a nation now, there has always been one key reason for that division — and we have yet to meaningfully address it.

Sex trafficking often looks like romantic relationships gone wrong
It happens here, too
“Maybe I wasn’t good enough to be loved. He told me if I did it once, I would never have to do it again,” says a woman who survived being trafficked for sex here in Kawartha Lakes.

The Liberal-NDP agreement: What’s all the fuss?
Less than five months ago, Canada’s governing Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party announced an agreement for the remainder of the 44th Parliament.
