Letters to the Editor

I have heard a lot of arguments against the federal government taking bold action to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Here are some of them: China and the US as the…

Goodbye Derek Sloan. What an embarrassment for a kind, generous and progressive riding. To read the kind of Canada you want to create makes me wonder what has happened to…

Former Premier Bill Davis died earlier this month. For 14 years he served Ontario with decency, and fulfilled his Progressive Conservative  leadership with respect and kindness. During the heated political tussle…

An amazing article by Britt Benn, Olympian (in the Aug. 5 edition of the Napanee Beaver). It could not have been said any better line by line by anybody in the…

That big storm was a tyrant out here on the Bay. In the morning, two large trees were down across the roof of our house. Phone lines busy. Everybody trying…

In recent years the NIMBY concept has gotten a bad rap; based on the misconception that someone who says “Not In My BackYard” in regards to unpleasant installations is somehow…

I am Canadian. I react to new situations, new social conditions by thinking about them, their effects on me and my neighbours, the restrictions and ensuing relaxed constrictions. I do…

On July 6 I celebrated my 75th birthday with some friends over lunch at the Loaf n’ Ale. Where else could you enjoy the best fish and chips and have…

The column by Warren Kinsella, former special assistant to Liberal leader Jean Chretien, ‘Prime Minister always ready for his close-up’ (The Sun July 11, 2021), has to be the most…

Editor’s note: the following is a quote from Rick Revelle’s novel Algonquin Legacy. No Homeless, No Laws, No Jails Shared with All, Respect for Two-Spirited People, Women held in High…