Tag: Comment
Comment – December 2025
I never purchase on Amazonon principal: Jeff Bezos does not need my support, but my local businesses do. I have to give him credit, though, for a brilliant business model and particularly touching advertising.…
Comment – November 2025
Despite the major inconvenience of hand-delivering 4,000papers last month, there was an upside: the paper benefited from the support of community members across the age spectrum who stepped up to help . Fortunately the…
Comment – October 2025
Last Monday I learned that the Canadian Union of Postal Workers had decided they would stop delivering community newspapers as part of their work action. It felt like a personal attack. What did they…
Comment – September 2025
Delegating the Thinking Part As the school season begins, teachers are developing assignments to assess the learning of students in their classrooms. The arrival of AI threatens some of the more traditional assessment techniques.…
Comment – August 2025
There was a time when our actions were guided by a principle of doing what was right, and there was a general consensus about what that looked like. Clearly the five hockey players who…
Comment – July 2025
Keeping Perspective As he lay fading away at PRHC, our late friend and neighbour Allan Bigelow wished for one last walk along the road facing his property on Larmer Line. It’s the simple things…
Time to Take Stock
We haven’t seen snow like this for a very long time so we may have forgotten the danger it poses. Our homeowner taking snow off his roof is not paranoid, he’s clairvoyant. On Monday…
COMMENT – February 2025 – Local Community Newspapers Live Another Day
It’s been a tough few months for community newspapers. In November the postal strike created a logistical delivery challenge. Some small papers opted to publish only on their website, while others like this one,…
Comment – January 2025
Hold onto your hats, it looks like we’re in for a bumpy ride in 2025. Just when we thought that the economy might be improving and inflation was coming under control, there a new…