Published April 19 2018 It was a lifetime ago but I still remember my father bending his tall and lanky frame reaching down to clasp my hand and walking me across the invisible line dividing…
A growing dangerous view
By Jim Poling Published April 12 2018 If you’ve not heard the world is entering a new epoch unofficially named Anthropocene the Age of Humans. With that odd moniker has come equally odd and dangerous…
Green and yellow
By Chad Ingram Published April 12 2018 Hockey rinks remain the heart of many small towns across Canada. Haliburton and Minden are of course no exception. Look at the way county residents packed the A.J.…
A blank canvas
By Chad Ingram Published April 5 2018 The purchase of a Prince Street property gives the Township of Minden Hills a perfect opportunity for a new civic space in downtown Minden. Last week councillors approved…
Toddle-luma luma
By Jim Poling Published April 5 2018 The first rain showers of April scattered brief and chilly as they were in the past week have brought out something more than just the promise of May…
Evening meetings
By Chad Ingram Published March 29 2018 Last week we published a letter from our pal and former Times columnist Neil Campbell who suggested that municipal council meetings should take place during the evening rather…
Look to the forest
By Jim Poling Published March 27 2018 Spring came in February. Winter followed in March. What April will bring is anyone’s guess. This winter’s wild weather swings confirm for many that our climate is changing…
Embrace evening meetings
To the Editor It wasn’t much more than a generation ago that the council of the old Township of Anson Hindon and Minden routinely sat down together after dinner to hold its meetings. Now in…
Entrepreneurial engine
By Chad Ingram Published March 22 2018 During the weekend the Haliburton Highlands Chamber of Commerce honoured members of the local business community during its annual achievement awards gala at the Pinestone. Congratulations to all…
Ontario's debt crisis
By Jim Poling Published March 22 2018 In all the recent dark and depressing news about governments and the people who run them comes a pinprick of light. Small and distant like a far away…
Nobody's kid sister
By Jim Poling Published March 15 2018 The United States just isn’t going to put up with it any more. Tired of forever being screwed over by beady-eyed Canadians and sleazy Mexican drug lords. Bad…
Populist politics
By Chad Ingram Published March 15 2018 In the fall of 2016 jaws hit floors around the world as an anti-establishment businessman with no relevant experience a reputation as a bully and penchant for shouting…
And the winner is . . .
Interesting things are missed when there is so much news happening around the world. The Valentine’s Day school massacre in Florida the prime minister’s Indian debacle this winter’s weird weather (snow in Rome and San…
The kids are all right
I remember the Columbine school shooting very clearly the media coverage of it that is. Perhaps that’s because in the spring of 1999 I was a 16-year-old high school student the same age as some…
Escaping winter madness
There are few refuges during a brutal winter; so few places to hide and stay calm and warm. It’s not the weather that has made this winter brutal. It has had its violent ups and…
Laughing with Lorraine
I first met Lorraine McNeil fairly early on in my tenure with the Times . I went to her home on Horseshoe Lake to interview her and her friend Maureen James – known in comedy duo…
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To the Editor When a council has the courage to raise taxes during an election year you know it is out of necessity. I applaud them. Yes I live on a lake my choice. My…
Curiouser and curiouser
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party’s pre-election problems are evolving into a strange saga worthy of a novel or movie script. As vigilant readers of this publication will recall after Patrick Brown’s resignation/ouster as party leader…
The crisis Trudeau ignores
By Jim Poling Published Feb. 22 2018 Few people notice or really care but there is a daily newspaper crisis inCanada. It is a crisis that has huge ramifications now and certainlyover time for our…
Girl power
By Sue Tiffin Published Feb. 15, 2018 The story of four Grade 5 students at Archie Stouffer Elementary School being proactive in finding a solution to their conflict is an inspiring one. It was…
The spy who fed me shrooms
By Jim Poling Sr. Published Feb. 15 2018 The tiniest things lead to the most important discoveries. With nothing else to do I was thumbing through news photos on the Internet. Boring stuff. Trudeau dabbing…