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. Perhaps the current TV ad which features three elderly women sliding down a hill on plastic… Continue reading
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 weather was lovely, so volunteers delivering in town or driving through the municipality did not have… Continue reading
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 have against community newspapers? Then it dawned on me that perhaps this was not an insult… Continue reading
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. Are AI tools such as ChatGPT simply another addition to the toolkit, much like calculators and… Continue reading
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 were acquitted of rape last week did not follow that principle, nor did the accuser. As… Continue reading
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 that resonate so deeply as the end of a life approaches, and so I understand that… Continue reading
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 friends of ours learned that a section of the roof on their home in Oakville had… Continue reading
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, opted to deliver a printed product. I owe a debt of gratitude to the energetic and… Continue reading
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 threats within our borders and beyond, and not just economic ones. Is it a shock tactic… Continue reading
