LETTER TO EDITOR: In support of the people of Ukraine, I have placed a sign in front of my property. I taped an old fridge magnet to it that I bought at the Toronto Ukrainian Festival sometimes before 2018. It has a picture of a Cossack with the colours of Ukrainian flag behind. Here is translation […]
Please find attached a letter to the editor from the North Simcoe Muskoka & District Labour Council (NSMDLC) regarding funding for municipalities at this challenging time. As the recognized voice for workers and their families in our region, the NSMDLC is very much aligned with the Canadian Labour Congress on this issue, and recognizes its […]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: In these times of COVID-19 cats take your mind off the terrible things that are happening. Every winter for the past few years I have helped various animals with food and shelter. The turkeys got scratch grain. The squirrels got peanuts by the bird feeder and also peanuts tucked into a […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: A few symptoms pertaining to COVID-19 are fever, cough, difficulty breathing and pneumonia. Back in June of 1983, my white cell counts were extremely low due to working with nasty carcinogens while I was a provincial lab technician in Toronto. I came down with pneumonia and this is how I fixed it. […]
LETTER TO EDITOR: There are many problems in caring for seniors in nursing homes that are directly caused by greed by the owners and/or shareholders. For-profit nursing homes have statistically fewer staff-to-resident ratios. Why is this? This is because hiring part-time staff saves the owners paying benefits. Three part-timers are cheaper than one full time […]
Letter to the Editor: This is a synopsis of a letter of objection sent to both the Town of Huntsville and the District of Muskoka in the past year, to register my objection to the proposed 29-lot development on South Mary Lake Road in Port Sydney. This development, known as Pine Haven Estates, is now […]