Opinion

Our turn to grow

Benns' Belief

When I was a child growing up in Lindsay, the smallest number I recall seeing on our town’s population sign on Highway 36 was 12,000.

Cost of living: Keeping people alive is expensive

There is understandably an increasing amount of discontent with the health care system in Canada.

Unions needed more than ever

Great article Mr. Benns. For decades the corporate world has effectively been permeating propaganda that unions were once needed but not any longer.

Labour unions expanded the middle class

Excellent piece. I find it completely baffling that Kawartha Lakes would ever vote Conservative given the demographics of this city

Lindsay downtown: Hallmark beautiful, too bad about the cars

The letter to the editor in the February edition of the Advocate by Wayne Medford, outlining a visionary plan for getting rid of parked cars in Lindsay’s downtown was inspiring. 

A different kind of bucket list

Cool Tips for a Hot Planet series

I’m just one person.  What I do is a drop in the bucket.

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.