Last week the Lindsay office of Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MPP and Ontario Labour Minister Laurie Scott was vandalized; windows smashed the front customer service area ransacked. While at least at press time it’s unknown who was…
Four more years
Signage is undoubtedly being collected throughout Haliburton County as I write this as the proverbial dust of another series of municipal elections settles over the community. Overall in Minden Hills and Algonquin Highlands there will…
Bridging the divide
A number of recurring themes have arisen at municipal all-candidates meetings in the county during the past few weeks. An overarching theme and one that will be perhaps the biggest challenge for the new councils in…
A matter for the courts
Last week a wave of furor ripped across the country as Conservative leader Andrew Scheer attempted to demonize Trudeau’s Liberals for allowing the murderer of Tori Stafford to be transferred from a medium security prison…
Uber cool
After hearing a presentation about a partnership between ride sharing company Uber and the Town of Innisfil, Haliburton County councillors recently asked to hear more about the arrangement, requesting more information from the involved…
Block party
By Chad Ingram Published Sept. 20 2018 Earlier this week Ontario MP Leona Alleslev crossed the floor in the House of Commons leaving Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to join the Conservative benches. Floor crossings are…
Notwithstanding
On Monday Premier Doug Ford held a press conference that was nothing short of exceptional; exceptional in a bad way. Ford held that press conference following the news that a judge had blocked his government’s…
Cull the birds
By Chad Ingram Published Sept. 6 2018 Just shoot them. Shoot the damn seagulls.
Mark your calendars
The county’s newspapers and radio stations are once again uniting to present a series of candidates’ meetings in the lead-up to municipal elections on Oct. 22. These meetings are a great opportunity to learn about…
Pride times three
This week marks the third annual Minden Pride a celebration of inclusion and diversity that began as a picnic two summers ago and has blossomed into a weeklong series of events. Things kicked off Monday…
Buck a beer
By Chad Ingram Published Aug. 16 2018 Doug Ford’s buck-a-beer pledge is the stupidest bit of political tokenism he has produced so far. First it’s ridiculous a provincial government is spending any time on driving…
What's the rush?
By Chad Ingram Published Aug. 9 2018 Minden Hills council has awarded the contract for a major renovation of the S.G. Nesbitt Memorial Arena and Minden Hills Community Centre in a move that seems a…
Election season
The nomination period for October’s municipal elections is over and the lists of candidates for Minden Hills and Algonquin Highlands are in. You can find them in a story in this week’s edition but also…
Bye bye bioheat
By Chad Ingram Published July 26 2018 To his credit Premier Doug Ford in the short time since he became leader of the province in early June has made good or started making good on a…
Making the cottage great again
It has been an unbelievable summer of stunning successes for me in cottage country. The best and greatest ever. No one ever has done or will do better. At winter’s end Shaman’s Rock my lake…
Time to act
By Sue Tiffin Published July 19 2018 The message Brian Kelly sustainability manager for Durham Region shared at the Environment Haliburton! presentation on July 5 was a dismal one. Current changes to our environment due…
Amalgamation conversation
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Countdown to light up
There are just more than three months to go before marijuana becomes legal in Ontario and throughout the country and it’s clear there are still myriad unanswered questions about just how everything will work. County…
No notice
By Chad Ingram Published June 21 2018 The community was shocked last Friday by the abrupt announcement that the board of the Ontario Early Years Centre for Haliburton Victoria Brock would close the licensed childcare…
Dealing with Doug
By Chad Ingram Published June 14, 2018 Despite the troubles facing it earlier this year, the Ontario PC party quickly and easily swept its way to a majority government last week. In a…
Dead weight
Kathleen Wynne shocked Ontarians last weekend by admitting a blunt truth; after Thursday the day this column is published in the paper she will no longer be premier of the province. It was an unusual…