By Chad Ingram During the Labour Day weekend we took a family day trip to Fenelon Falls which was excellent. It’s been years since I’ve spent much time there and it’s apparent there’s an ongoing…
Best case scenario
By Chad Ingram As reported earlier this month the County of Haliburton will assumeownership of the licensed daycare centre in Minden and that is greatnews for local families both current and future. As regular readers…
To reiterate
By Chad Ingram I wasn’t going to write a “this is why we need Minden Pride” column this year, as I have in others. I thought, as a community, we were beyond that. I…
Unanswered questions
By Chad Ingram If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent most of the last month closely following the story of the B.C. murders, the ensuing manhunt and finally, earlier this week, the release of…
Two lanes
By Chad Ingram The weekend before last I was driving northbound on Highway 35, just north of Carnarvon, with a long, steady stream of southbound traffic in the other lane. As I came over…
Not fine
By Chad Ingram For the second consecutive week, I am writing a column about landfills in Algonquin Highlands, which, in more than a decade of writing these things, has to be some kind of…
One less landfill
Waste management is one of the biggest challenges for the county’smunicipalities. It took Algonquin Highlands township nearly a decade toget provincial approval for an expansion of the Maple Lake landfill anexpansion that has given that…
Picking up a signal
By Chad Ingram Early this month, there was a long-awaited announcement that the federal government will contribute funding to the Eastern Ontario Regional Network’s cell gap project, meaning all the funding is now in…
Congratulations Keith
By Chad Ingram I don’t remember the first time I went to Highlands Cinemas. It would have been in the 1980s. I would have gone as a kid with my family during a…
Independent review
By Chad Ingram Haliburton County councillors should proceed with the commissioning of a third-party governance review for the county and its lower-tier municipalities but only if the political will exists to actually do something with…
The good the bad and the cuddly
I need to confess: I have harboured bad thoughts about chipmunks. Murderous thoughts. I know chipmunks are cute and fun-loving little critters. They have drawn millions of smiles as the Disney characters Chip and Dale and…
Do the shuffle
By Chad Ingram The premier of Ontario certainly knows how to make headlines, even during the political off-season. Last Thursday, Doug Ford announced he was making a cabinet shuffle, a very large one.…
Prehistoric victory
By Chad Ingram Iremember when the Toronto Raptors franchise was established. It was1993. I was 11 years old. The Blue Jays were World Series championsand there was a huge buzz about Toronto getting its own…
Beer nation
By Chad Ingram During the weekend members of the Fordgovernment either on a coincidental collective whim or at thedirection of the premier posted to social media pictures ofthemselves in convenience stores in their respective ridingspromoting…
Plant-based options
By Sue Tiffin It’s here vegetarians and vegans the day it is possible to order a vegan breakfast pick up a cashew cheese ball have more than one plant-based menu item to choose at the…
Bizarre bylaws
By Chad Ingram Most of us at one time or another have likely read or heard about quirky laws or bylaws that exist in certain places often left over from a bygone time. For example…
Community improvement
By Chad Ingram Last summer, the Township of Minden Hills embarked upon the creation of a community improvement plan, and that process is now at a phase of public input, the township encouraging…
On development charges
By Chad Ingram The County of Haliburton will be commissioning a study looking at the institution of development charges, and it’s probably time. Development charges are fees imposed by municipal governments on land…
Nowhere fast
By Chad Ingram The County of Haliburton will continue to go without any form of public transit because there is not the political will at the council table to create one. That’s it. That’s…
Here come the cuts
By Chad Ingram With Doug Ford’s PC government tabling its first budget earlier this month we are starting to learn what some of the service cuts Ontarians will see over the next few years will…
Retirement community
By Chad Ingram As the county’s population continues to grow many of its new residents skew older in age. Many are retirees looking to leave life in the city either moving to what has been…