Written by Jeff Green

Even though a climate of acrimony and mistrust has become entrenched at Frontenac County Council in recent months, the decision that council made last week to defer their budget deliberations until May 2 is hard to understand. The budget was on the agenda last week, but before the agenda was… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

As those who live in communities that have lost their store know only too well, it is very difficult to keep a community together once it has lost its basic retail infrastructure – its grocery store, gas stations, restaurants and the like. It's not impossible, but it is very difficult.… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Frontenac County Council had poked and prodded at their 2013 budget for a couple of months, and they had managed to get it to the point where county ratepayers would be paying no more than they did last year. The requisition to the townships was down by 0.34%. To get… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

What can I say about the decision by Janet Gutowski to remain as warden of Frontenac County Council? On one hand she is fully within her legal rights to keep the position. While there has been a ‘gentleman’s’ agreement that the chain of office is to be passed on every… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by Jeff Green From a distance it has been a lot of fun watching the trials and tribulations of the City of Toronto and its outlandish Mayor Rob Ford. In the first instance, there was the outrage of the Toronto Star, whose editors still can't believe that the citizenry… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by Jeff Green From a distance it has been a lot of fun watching the trials and tribulations of the City of Toronto and its outlandish Mayor Rob Ford. In the first instance, there was the outrage of the Toronto Star, whose editors still can't believe that the citizenry… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by Jeff Green One comment sticks in my mind from a meeting I attended last week about the ‘reversal’ of Enbridge oil Pipeline 9, which runs through our region. In the midst of his cautionary presentation about Enbridge, pipelines, and leaks, Adam Scott from Environmental Defence that the matter… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by Jeff Green I have a theory that there is an eight-year "best before" date on governments in Canada. It comes from the fact that, quite apart from all of the machinations about independence and right/left splits that took place while I was growing up in Quebec, the provincial… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by Jeff Green As I have looked in a cursory way at the results of the Québec election. it occurs to me that my own life has been measured out by the Québec question, and that the future of Québec in or out of Canada will likely not be… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by  Jeff Green Let’s see. You have a chance to go lake trout fishing, and maybe fish for arctic grayling as well, at a remote, fly-in location on Great Slave Lake in the middle of the Arctic summer, or you can go to a Frontenac County Council meeting. I… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by Jeff Green I resisted the temptation to write an editorial about the hot weather, because I know nothing more about the heat than anyone else. Then again, if knowing more about a topic than others know is a prerequisite for writing about it, I would probably write about… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by Jeff Green Everybody is up in arms. Well not everybody, but some people - and those people are really up in arms - about the new clear bag garbage system in Central Frontenac. People have said a lot about the clear bags: they are unworkable; they are an… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by Jeff Green When Bud Clayton was elected mayor of North Frontenac I asked him if he was going to step down from the Pine Meadow Nursing Home management committee. He said that as soon as the shovel was in the ground for the rebuild of Pine Meadow, he… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by Jeff Green A couple of weeks ago, we ran an article called “Deputy Minister sees diminished role for MNR”. The article was based on the transcript of a video statement by David O’Toole, the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources, that was viewed by staff throughout the ministry in… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by Jeff Green When the Occupy movement, as it has come to be known, sprung up in New York as a kind of North American response to the Arab Spring last summer, I, for one, looked at it as an urban phenomenon. Even the slogan about the 1% who… READ MORE

Written by Jeff Green

Editorial by Jeff Green About once every 12 to 18 months, Inspector Gerry Salisbury, the Commander of the Lanark County Detachment of the OPP, makes an appearance at a meeting of Central Frontenac Council. Each time, he brings a set of statistics about the activities of the Sharbot Lake sub-detachment,… READ MORE