Canada Day Is Back, But Time Has Not Stood Still
I've probably been to 25 Canada Day breakfasts at my local fire hall. For most of those years, the icons of the day, red and white and the maple leaf, seemed as sweet and benign as the maple syrup we pour into our coffee cups. In our part of rural… READ MORE
The Best-Laid Offical Plan Of South Frontenac
When you get down to it, South Frontenac politicians don't have that many options when it comes to changing the draft Official Plan document that has been presented to them by a team of consultations and their own development/planning department. The key elements of the plan were discussed at a… READ MORE
The Provincial Election That Ground To a Halt
Everything about the provincial election seems to have been done according to a plan that may have been drawn up in Progressive Conservative Party Headquarters. Any potential controversy over the decision to end COVID mandates in the midst of the widespread 6th wave of the virus, did not materialise. The… READ MORE
The Lackluster Provincial Election Hides The Rift In Our Communities
I asked the organiser for one of the election candidates this week, if they thought that the provincial election hadn't really started yet, and they said “You think?” There has only been one candidate meeting, but it was a taped event for COGECO TV, filmed in Smiths Falls last week,… READ MORE
A crowd on the left, and on the right
As of Monday, there were 7 registered candidates for Member of Provincial Paliament in Lanark Frontenac Kingston. Four of them represent the four parties with members in the legislature: Amanada Pulker-Mok represents the Liberals, Drew Cumpson, the NDP, John Jordan the Conservatives, and Marlene Spruyt the Green Party. The presumptive… READ MORE
Why do people keep dying of COVID in Frontenac County?
Over the pandemic, one of the major points of pride, and relief, in Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington has been our extremely low case and death rate from COVID compared to the rest of the world. The numbers for the entire pandemic are still good in the region, about 27%… READ MORE
Boring election? The Ontario Health Coalition wants everyone to pay attention
Ontario is a couple of weeks away from the start of a short, one month election campaign, but you would think the election is years off judging from media coverage this week. In a scan of the home pages of 5 major news websites this morning (April 19) I came… READ MORE
Unanswered questions
Buried in some of changes in the Ontario COVID response that were announced by Ontario's Chief Medical Officer Kieran Moore, on Monday afternoon (May 11), was a side comment he made that Public Health estimates that over 5.3 million Ontarians, over 1/3 of the population, have likely contracted COVID since… READ MORE
The Shape Of Things To Come
Cheaper Dental & Pharmacare & Unfettered Development In recent weeks, the prospect of a second Doug Ford term in government has been coming into focus, and we need only look back to the first few months of the first Ford term for some hints about what that will look like.… READ MORE
Are we ready for the end of COVID protocols?
Kingston Frontenac Public Health (KFLAPH) , Public Health Ontario, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, have all been front and centre for the last two years providing information, advice, and directives to follow as we have collectively dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. We knew of their existence before the… READ MORE
So Long, Randy Hillier
“They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom, for trying to change the system from within” - First We Take Manhattan – From the album “I'm Your Man” by Leonard Cohen “Our political system is broken, there is no sense spending any more time trying to fix a broken system… READ MORE
From Russia, With Love?
“Russia news provides a platform for objective journalism where Canadian msm (Mainstream media) creates fabrications” The headline above is a tweet from local MPP Randy Hillier, who has been absent from his Lanark Frontenac Kingston riding for many months now as he pursues his own political agenda, while being paid… READ MORE
Word of the week – Endemicity
During a COVID-19 briefing last week, Dr. Piotr Oglaza said that he expects the coming 'endemicity' will change the way we all deal with the virus. For a second or two, I did not catch the meaning of the word. I could not remember ever hearing it before and I… READ MORE
Province Knew What Omicron Could Do in Early December, & Delayed
It is very very rare for us out here in the rural backwaters of Eastern Ontario to have any real idea what goes on in the back rooms of Queen's Park. Decisions that are made in those back rooms have an impact on our lives, to be sure, but our… READ MORE
New year, Same as The Old One
In order to gain some perspective, I took a look at the editorials we ran in the first two weeks of the year in 2021, and it is clear that some things have changed over the past year, but others haven't. The first week's editorial published on January 8, 2021,… READ MORE
50 years and counting
We had some big ideas, they never quite got to the point of becoming plans, to mark 2021 as the 50th year of the Frontenac News. But as with everything this year, the weeks just kept rolling along in a COVID vacuum, and it was as much as we could… READ MORE
