Editorial

There was no easing into winter weather this year, as the significantly milder than typical autumn that we had been experiencing allowed us to head outdoors wearing little more than a lightweight windbreaker all the way until the very end of November. And then winter weather was thrust upon us over the weekend with a significant amount of snowfall,...

As I mentioned in last week's editorial, I had nearly completely written an editorial for this week, chronicling my months' long quest to obtain a public document from the municipality, that document being the municipal hiring policy. However, with the departure of Meaford's CAO, who had been the roadblock to accessing that document, announced by Mayor Ross Kentner at the...

If you have tuned in to the first two full days of council's discussion of the 2025 municipal budget, you already know it has been unlike anything we have ever seen. It has been two full days, 15 hours worth, of discussions, and councillors are more confused and frustrated than before they began, as is the public no doubt. Unlike...

During Monday's Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph outside Meaford Hall, where hundreds had gathered to observe the ceremony, I was thinking about an editorial that I wrote back in 2016, that sadly is as relevant today as it was eight years ago. “In many ways, it’s a charmed life here in Canada, which is why I think it is...