By Chad Ingram Haliburton County council has decided the county will close its tourist information centre along Highway 35 in Minden at the end of the year and that’s OK. Actually it’s a good progressive…
Those left behind
By Chad Ingram I lost a friend to suicide last year. I didn’t find out until months after it happened. My friend was also a co-worker of mine when I lived and worked in the…
Let it snow (please)
By Chad Ingram As I write this it's minus 11 degrees outside but it wasn't so a couple of days ago. A couple of days ago it was plus eight. This winter if you can…
Reformatting the fair
By Chad Ingram 2016 will be a year of changes for the Haliburton County Fair as organizers alter its format. The fair will be held earlier than usual this year on a single day in…
The top 10
By Chad Ingram As has become an end-of-year tradition around here these are the top 10 news stories of 2015 for the western half of Haliburton County. With an intake window for the province's feed-in-tariff …
A fine balance
T hey say the only constants in life are change and beer. Well they say something like that. The Beer Store recently announced it will be moving its Minden location from Water Street where it’s…
Event of default
By Chad Ingram The province has the ability to terminate its contract with Carillion. This is not earth-shattering but is something I can write with stone-cold certainty now that I have a copy of the…
Time of the season
By Chad Ingram D uring the weekend I attended not one but two Santa Claus parades because well my life is just really exciting like that. The annual parades in the villages of Minden and…
Race to the bottom
During the weekend someone set fire to Peterborough’s sole mosque. Police are investigating the arson as a hate crime and while there is no proof it was some kind of response to the horror that…
Common census returns
By Chad Ingram It’s far too early to make any judgment about how newly minted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is doing although that of course isn’t stopping detractors. There have been a few Minden murmurings…
New level
By Chad Ingram The phrase "water levels management" will likely cause many pairs of eyeballs to immediately glaze over. And that’s OK. That’s a perfectly normal reaction. However it’s a subject of great importance in…
A bright idea
By Chad Ingram Minden Hills Councillor Jeanne Anthon has suggested on more than one occasion the upper tier of Haliburton County should institute some kind of standardized approval framework for lower tier councils to use…
In opposition
By Chad Ingram Canadians awoke to a substantively different country Tuesday than they had Monday the country’s Conservative majority government replaced by a Liberal one and the man who’d been Prime Minister for nearly a…
The niqab diversion
By Chad Ingram T he incredibly long 2015 federal election campaign is (thankfully) near its end and has turned into a shallow competition of which party’s propaganda is most captivating. Well perhaps it was always…
Crap process
By Chad Ingram T he recent approval by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of a sewage-spreading field near Maple Lake has highlighted a glaring and ridiculous gap in the province’s approval process for…
Volun-told
By Chad Ingram T his week was supposed to be the annual Haliburton-Muskoka-Kawartha Children’s Water Festival. For anyone unaware the festival is a wonderful decade-old event that makes ecological education a fun interactive time at…
Good question
By Chad Ingram I f any of the HKLB federal hopefuls thought Monday night’s all-candidates’ meeting was going to be a peaceful stroll through the woods of the Haliburton Highlands they were wrong. Hosted by…
Party poison
By Chad Ingram W ith a marathon federal election campaign underway we get lots of time to watch the country’s major political parties duke it out on the airwaves slinging mud and half-facts making promises…
Skinning the cat
By Chad Ingram T here’s more than one way to skin a cat as the somewhat morbid phrase goes just as there are multiple ways to cast a ballot. Different sorts of folks will employ…
Generating people power
By Chad Ingram I t was how municipal government is supposed to work. Last week in what was arguably their first decision on a major contentious issue members of the current Minden Hills council unanimously…