By Chad Ingram Today is Bell Let’s Talk Day an annual fundraising campaign by the telecommunications leviathan where five cents is donated to mental health programming each time someone makes a social media post using…
The toll of roads
By Chad Ingram I t’s budget season which means local politicians and municipal staff are doing an annual dance of attempting to complete as much work as possible while keeping property tax increases as palatable…
Any change
By Chad Ingram "Any change is better than doing nothing” the county’s planning director said last week as councillors grappled with choosing a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target that will help lay the groundwork for…
2020
By Chad Ingram Well it’s 2020. The future is now even though there are noflying cars or robot maids or anything which frankly feels like a bitof a ripoff. We do have TikTok though. Whatever…
The top 10
By Chad Ingram A n annual tradition as 2019 draws to a close here is a countdown of the top 10 Times stories of the year . 10. Zion United Nearly 130 years old Carnarvon’s…
Too good to be true
The focus now should not be finishing the project. The focus now should be mitigating the financial pain.
Stocking up the bank
By Chad Ingram A couple of weeks ago I met with members of a local lake association for a story about a food drive they do each Thanksgiving bringing food and money to the Minden Food…
Town hall
By Chad Ingram Last Saturday Dysart et al Mayor Andrea Roberts and Deputy Mayor Pat Kennedy held a town hall meeting in that municipality’s council chambers one it appears will not be the last. It…
Shuttered
By Chad Ingram While a few new businesses have set up shop along Minden’s main drag throughout the past few months a number of them have also closed their doors. Since the summer at least…
Community-driven
“I feel that the project is sucking the life out of us a community at this point” is the way Minden Hills Councillor Pam Sayne put it during a council meeting last week. Certainly what…
Happenings
By Sue Tiffin Oftentimes after the respectful marking of Remembrance Day Canadiansbegin preparing and celebrating the festive season which will lead usall into the new year. Those who have been organizing and hostingevents volunteering to…
An enormous toll
By Chad Ingram On Monday in front of the cenotaph at the Village Green in Minden residents will gather for a solemn annual tradition. Members of the Minden Legion’s Colour Party will march in the…
Gone but not forgotten
Slap!!! That is the sound of my hand crushing the life out of the last mosquito of 2019. The mosquitoes stayed late this year possibly because of the wetness and lack of frost. I can’t…
Emergency declaration
Last week members of Haliburton County council declined to pass a resolution declaring climate change an emergency but did have a long discussion about it and passed a lengthy resolution making it clear the local…
Behind the scenes
By Chad Ingram THE 2019 FEDERAL election concluded Monday night a lukewarm finale to what has been a tiring and cynical campaign and one that certainly neither of this country’s two main parties should be…
Thankful
Flowers have been ripped from the window boxes and beds. In the shed and in the boathouse deck furniture and lawn games and lifejackets have all been stowed away and tomorrow my dad will perform…
Mudslinging
By Chad Ingram This federal election has devolved into the country’s two major parties asking us to choose which of their leaders is less terrible. All political campaigns involve negative advertising attacking one’s opponents. However…
Get out of their way
By Chad Ingram A distasteful trend as of late has been the number of adult residents of the county who seem to think nothing of insulting and mocking local teenagers on social media because they…
Meet your candidates
By Chad Ingram The federal election campaign is underway and amid a few exploding proverbial bombshells the major party leaders are busy making stops in communities across Canada and making promises while they are there.…
Real news
The writ was dropped last week which means the next federal election is just more than four weeks away and that Canadians will be faced with a deluge of ads and information during the next…
Waste wizardry
By Chad Ingram This column is about a digital application for waste disposal and recycling, which is a lot cooler than it sounds. During their meeting last week, Algonquin Highlands councillors were given a…