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…