It has been a week of thoughtful recollection and warm tributes to George H. W. Bush the 41st president of the United States who died last Friday. Like all leaders global or local Bush collected…
Let us count the ways
By Chad Ingram Published Dec. 6 2018 This week new municipal councils acrossHaliburton County are getting sworn in as a fresh council term getsunderway. There are a lot of councillors in Haliburton County – toomany…
A man and his messages
There are days when you look around and see too many mean-spirited jerks. Then you turn on the television and meet Tim Green. Green appeared on the 60 Minutes television news show recently and provided…
Happy hatters
By Chad Ingram Published Nov. 29 2018 Some readers may have noticed there’s been some criticism of the policies of the Ford government in this space in recent months and so it’s fair to acknowledge…
Give local
By Chad Ingram Published Nov. 22, 2018 With a host of yuletide festivities getting underway in the county, it would appear that the Christmas season is upon us. From the lighting up of…
We see you
To the Editor, On Saturday the Ontario PC Party voted to advance a policy motion suggesting that gender identity, gender expression, and transgender rights were somehow political ideology, and that any discussion of such…
Clamouring for climate dollars
The feds are making close to half a billion dollars available for climate change projects in Ontario and hopefully we will see at least a little bit of that money come into Haliburton County. Federal…
No trespassing
It is 6:25 a.m. opening day of the deer hunting season. Still coal black outside so I am sipping the last of my coffee before heading into the woods. The telephone rings. Who calls at…
Shedding light
The next federal election is just less than a year away but already it seems evident that certain issues such as carbon taxation and immigration policy will play a large role. There is another far…
Voice of our times
I was so overwhelmed by bad news this week that I decided to write a column about the good news that is plentiful if you go looking for it. There is no shortage of happy or…
Descent into post-literacy
The 737-800 I am flying in just broke through 10000 feet the height at which the crew turns off the seat belt sign and makes the flight announcements. “The bad news. . . ” says…
'We attack back'
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…
Respect goes a long way
To the Editor My partner and I hike in QE2 and we have definitely seen a lot of cars trucks ATVs and trailers parked. It is supposed to be a road not a parking lot.…
The most magnificent high
There’s nothing better than being first. So I was ecstatic on Wednesday Oct. 17 when I became the very first Canadian to get high as smoking marijuana became legal in Canada. I had planned to…
Bad news about winter
Time to look ahead to winter and what we might expect from it this year. There’s bad news and more bad news. Sorry about that but this is Canada the country that has the world’s…
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 country at war
I step off the airplane into the California sunshine and am welcomed by the sweet voice of America’s senior citizen diva Barbra Streisand. She is singing through someone’s car radio “Don’t Lie to Me” a new…
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…
Of mice and mice traps
There is a mouse population explosion this year. Everyone I have talked to reports their traps clicking and clacking on a regular basis. My own traps are singing loudly and more often than in recent…