By Diane Johnston As the new year began, I thought I’d lost my cloth face mask. It didn’t really matter because, just like neon hues and shoulder pads, fabric masks …

By Steven Larocque   It’s imperative that kids go back to school in person because they need the socialization, the contact, the routine, the camaraderie. It’s the only way to …

    So much has been happening that it is easy to miss those whose hard work has been holding our communities together. One sector of our community that has …

Living in Northeastern Ontario has its challenges. Minus 40 temperatures, for some reason, spring to mind right away. And at certain times of the year there are more blackflies and …

By Darlene Wroe Having most of the technology I need to work from home, I spent the majority of last week at my desk in my front room. Many of …

The year 2022 is off to an eerily familiar start with the announcement of provincial measures to control the spread of COVID-19, effective January 5. The good news is that …

By Steven Larocque This isn’t just 2022. It’s the year in which the movie Soylent Green is set. That’s the old Charlton Heston science fiction flick from the 1970s that …