By Chad Ingram Published Aug. 24 2017 During last week’s Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference in Ottawa the provincial government was quick to dismiss the suggestion that harmonized sales tax in Ontario be increased…
One and the same
By Chad Ingram Published Aug. 17 2017 It can sometimes feel like the world is a pressure cooker of hate racism and bigotry about to boil over. Mass shootings in places of worship. Massacres at…
A debate too shallow
By Jim Poling Published Aug. 17 2017 It is disheartening how we Canadians manage to turn interesting and important debates into spiteful squabbles. We toss emotion and hard core bias onto the path toward the…
Personality versus the news
By Jim Poling Published Aug. 10 2017 The era of the personality cult finally appears to be ended at CBC’s The National. The daily 10 p.m. news program will replace as expected the saintly but…
Please explain
By Chad Ingram Published Aug. 10 2017 Once it hit the media it took exactly a week for the strange saga of the trademarking of the word “Haliburton” by a local man for commercial purposes…
The summer of patching up
By Jim Poling Published Aug. 3 2017 This was to be the summer of innovation at the lake. Long desired transformations would bring the place into the modern age. Wi-Fi cameras to monitor security and…
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Trademark By Chad Ingram Published Aug. 3 2017 It seems like something out of The Beaverton or The Onion or any other number of satirical publications but it is in fact real life. Last week…
Our national critter
By Jim Poling Published July 27 2017 If you see a beaver this summer stop to give it a hug. The poor little guy or gal could use some affection and some appreciation. If you don’t…
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To the Editor The weather may be wretched the lakes bone-chilling and the bugs unrelenting this summer. Despite these inconveniences there always will be art beautiful art to enjoy. A rainy day can inspire an…
In the meantime
By Chad Ingram Published July 27 2017 As has been written in this space before two major Minden floods in a four-year period have made it evident that flood mitigation infrastructure will be required in…
Piling on
By Chad Ingram Published July 20 2017 The issues of landfills and waste diversion have taken up a lot of space in this publication lately. In June we reported on how residents were being told…
Mother Nature fights back
By Jim Poling Published July 20 2017 “Don’t mess with Mother Nature” used to be a cute and humorous expression. Not these days. Too often now we witness how an angry Mother Nature fights back.…
It's Tom Thomson!
By Jim Poling Published July 13 2017 One hundred years ago this week a vacationing Toronto doctor was relaxing at his rented cottage on Algonquin Park’s Canoe Lake. He looked out over the water and…
Making Minden
By Chad Ingram Published July 13 2017 Minden continues to grow and evolve as evidenced by a number of openings that took place within the village in early July. Canada Day marked the debut of…
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To the Editor A couple of weeks ago I was once again disappointed to see a couple of bags of household garbage and recycling dumped outside the gate at the Ingoldsby Waste Transfer station. I…
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To the Editor Re: “Residents join to fight flooding” and “Inform yourself” in the Minden Times. Mr. Ingram states “it’s 2017. There’s no excuse for residents seasonal or year-round to be uninformed about the things…
Extra fees unfair
To the Editor I would like to bring to your attention what I believe is an unfair policy of the Town of Minden Hills. I recently discovered I had entered the wrong account number when…
Fear of the water
By Jim Poling Sr. Published July 6 2017 I’ll never forget Canada Day 2017. It was the day Louie learned to swim. Louie is my 14-month-old great-granddog. He is a chocolate Labrador retriever a water…
The most wonderful time of the year
By Chad Ingram Published July 6 2017 I have a confession to make. Sometimes during the winter I wonder why it is that I continue to live in Haliburton County. Often these ponderances come when…
Why are they called ‘Burpees’?
By Laurie Sweig Published June 22 2017 I don’t know anyone who likes doing Burpees. When I have clients do them (notice I didn’t say “ask clients to do them”) this question often comes up…
Inform yourself
By Chad Ingram Published June 29 2017 A few weeks ago a delegation of seasonal residents showed up in Minden Hills council chambers upset that council was in their opinion moving too quickly to approve…