Diane Johnston As the long, hot summer of 2020 drags on, I’m making my way through some books. I can’t read while lazing in a hammock. Thanks to the bifocals, …

It seems that around the world there is one challenge after another. We are more connected than we have ever been before through news, print or radio, social media and …

Steven Larocque The pandemic and the WE charity scandal continue to be the top two stories of the summer. On the WE controversy, there’s a growing sense that Prime Minister …

Last week it was announced that former Timiskaming-Cochrane MPP David Ramsay had died at the age of 72 in Nova Scotia. Ramsay served as MPP beginning in 1985 when he …

Darlene Wroe I am very grateful to the Ontario Community Newspapers Association for their decision to grant me first place in the photography award’s component for the Speaker’s circulation class. …

The pandemic is having a particularly hard impact on our elderly. Having contacts with others was likely the key component in retaining wellness and a sense of youthfulness, strength and …

Steven Larocque A story in the Globe and Mail online edition July 27 put me in mind of Englehart’s Bud Colquhoun, who died July 19 at the age of 90. …