Randy Hillier revealed his true colours a long time ago
On Saturday Randy Hillier put up an apology on his Twitter account. He acknowledge that he should not have tweeted pictures of people who had died, against their families witshes, and made unsubstaintated claims abou their cause of death, all to to support his unsubstantiated claims about how dangerous the… READ MORE
The “new normal” is starting to look pretty normal
Aside from a spike in cases in the local region over the last ten days, the news has been pretty good about COVID in Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington, and in Ontario as a whole. The 4th wave of COVID-19, fuelled by the Delta variant, did not result in much… READ MORE
Politicians Need to Engage The Housing Crisis
One of the unexpected impacts of COVID has been a leap in property values, even in more remote, non-waterfront locations. This has created opportunities for many and wealth for some, but it has also had a dark side, creating a whole class of people who are either homeless, or living… READ MORE
How Do You Make A Holiday Out of Reconciliation?
Like many others, I did not pay much attention to the federal legislation to establish a National Truth and Reconciliation Day, and make it a federal statutory holiday. For most of you reading this in our print, it is a day later than normal, because September 30 fell on a… READ MORE
We have a vaccine for COVID, but nothing to stop the housing crisis in Frontenac County.
We are in the midst of a 4th wave, the delta wave, of COVID-19, and although we worked hard at it and are still working at it, we did not get vaccines into enough arms to prevent it from circulating in our communities. The variant is circulating mostly among un-vaccinated… READ MORE
You can prod, but you can’t force anyone to get vaccinated.
No one wants to say it, but the delta variant has shown some vaccine resistance, and that is why governments and public health officials, alike, are wringing their hands about the people who are choosing to refuse a vaccination. Two months ago this week, during a zoom media briefing, just… READ MORE
Disrespect
Justin Trudeau met with the new Governor General Mary Simon at Rideau Hall on Sunday. He did so in order to request that Governor General, as the representative of Queen Elizabeth, dissolve Parliament to make way for fresh elections. This quaint detail about how elections are called in Canada is… READ MORE
Will the province deliver on rural Internet, or was EORN a better bet?
Everyone wants better Internet, and there is an entire industry that is devoted to delivering the Internet, just as there are more and more businesses that cannot operate without reliable Internet service. In cities, it is a competitive market. There are hundreds of thousands of subscribers, all located within metres… READ MORE
There is a fast(ish) train coming, and it is not so slowly rounding the bend
The federal government has just announced the launch of a procurement process for the construction of new passenger rail service in the Quebec City to Windsor Corridor, including a new rail line running between Ottawa and Peterborough through Lanark, Frontenac, and Lennox and Addington Counties. In the recently approved budget,… READ MORE
Residential Schools: Not A Proud Past
In 1996, after an incident at one of our plants in Manitoba, a plan was put in place to have a “Cultural Awareness Program” and I volunteered to be a facilitator. My company and the local Band Council formed a team to develop the program to try and create a… READ MORE
Canada Day Needs to Change Again
Our local townships all support Canada Day events in the villages and hamlets each year. It is a day of community spirit. It is the start of summer, a chance to enjoy pancakes and maple syrup, strawberries, and our lakes on a hot day. This is followed by fireworks, as… READ MORE
Millennial's slow to take up first dose. Second dose vaccine confusion
The issues that were at play during the initial weeks of the effort to get first doses of vaccine into the arms of as many people in the Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) region as possible, was mostly about supply and figuring out the logistics of running clinics. Public… READ MORE
Parham Fire – One Year Later
(warning – this article may trigger painful memories for some people) It was not something that Parham residents, Central Frontenac Firefighters, Frontenac Paramedics, or the Frontenac OPP detachment could have foreseen. In the midst of an oppressive early summer heat wave, in timber dry conditions, three months into a once… READ MORE
A glimpse at the fall
At the most recent KFLAPH press briefing, Dr. Moore said a few things about what we might expect to see in terms of regulations and advice from Public Health for our communities into the fall and winter. A day later, when it came out that Moore is taking on the… READ MORE
Why I jumped the queue, twice
By the time this newspaper is printed, I hope to have an appointment to get my second dose of Astrazeneca before the end of May. The pharmacy where I will get it is located a 30 second walk from my office. So it shouldn't be a total loss, as my… READ MORE
Jealous of the US COVID freedoms? Don't Be
A lot of people are frustrated by the fact that we are still worrying about COVID in Canada, when the United States seems to have moved on. We are in lock-down and they are out partying, and now even the much vaunted United States Centre For Disease Control (CDC) is… READ MORE
