Despite flaws, Olympics still has its moments
As the 2022 Winter Olympic Games wrapped up in Beijing, China on Sunday, the medal standings showed Team Canada with 26 medals. That number is always subject to increase or…
Opinion
Anticipated titles
Catherine Coles Coles’ Notes Each month, I am emailed an automated report from our database that lists all of the items with the highest holds (or the most reservations) in…
Government was right not to meet with protestors
Regarding Dick Dodd’s Letter to the Editor on Feb. 17 in the Napanee Beaver. Mr. Dodd’s seems to not have done any research on the so-called “Truckers Freedom Protest.” If he knew…
Remembering community icon Bruce McPherson Jr.
Greater Napanee lost another connection to its Gibbard’s past last week with the passing of Bruce McPherson Jr. For a certain generation, McPherson Jr. was one of the faces Gibbard’s…
Bill Blair blaming everyone else for lack of enforcement in Ottawa
It is interesting and sad, to listen to “Blame Everyone Else Bill Blair”, Minister of Emergency Preparedness, suggesting to the Liberal/CBC spokesperson, Rosemary Barton, that “we need the police to…
Calling on MP Kramp-Neuman to push for legislation to end trucker convoy protests
I am asking our local Member of Parliament, Ms Kramp-Neuman to urge our federal government to enact and enforce emergency legislation to end the current “trucker convoy” protests across our…
Vaccine mandates a not a real loss of freedom
To those protestors who rail against vaccine mandates as a threat to their personal freedom, I suggest they look at the plight of others across the globe to put their…
O’Toole’s ouster leaves Conservatives searching for answers, again
Thousands of protestors rolled into downtown Ottawa on a Friday afternoon demanding the removal of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from office. By the next Wednesday it was Erin O’Toole, leader…
Evergreen 2022 nominees
Catherine Coles Coles’ Notes The Evergreen Award, part of the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading program, is best described as the “readers’ choice” of Canadian literary awards. Each year,…
Justin Trudeau the groundhog
The Wiarton Willie of the Federal Government appeared for the first time after 12 days of the truckers’ protest and delivered the profound and comforting statement, “it has got to…