More Privatization Will Not Make Our Health Care System Better
OPINION This was the subject of a presentation by Andrew Longhurst at the Mount Community Centre one evening in June. Longhurst is a health policy researcher, political economist, and PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. The event was sponsored by the Peterborough Health Coalition. In November…
Cavan-Monaghan Receives First Quarter OLG Payment
Last month, the township received the first quarter (April 1 – June 30) OLG payment totaling $87,728 for hosting Shorelines Slots at Kawartha Downs. The City of Peterborough’s payment for the same period was $734,414. Since the gaming site opened in November 1999, Cavan Monaghan has received $61,786,063 and since the Peterborough Shorelines Casino…
What’s in a Name?
Place names in many ways reflect the history of a landscape. A road may be named after a prominent family or political figure, or a town in memory of the lands that settlers originated from. It may simply describe a prominent feature of the area. The names given to our local landscape by the…
Millbrook Mobile Detailing Cleans Your Ride – or Boat or House
Tanya Borg started her first mobile detailing business in Courtice during the Covid pandemic. There was a great demand for clean vehicles, sanitized ones, in fact. Tanya could deliver. Customers included young families looking to keep their youngsters safe and elderly people worried about germs. Then there were contracts with fleet owners including cab…
Hench-zukes Discovered on Zion Line
In a rare statement issued just days ago, the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) disclosed troubling details about a potential threat to public safety. Even more unusual is the very precise local nature of this warning. During a tense press conference held at the Millbrook Legion, CSIS Agent Zelda Zuccarini was shockingly explicit:…