Archive for category: Op-Ed

There is strength in community. While each of us may harbour different aspirations within our hearts, humanity has learned this lesson and passed it on down through countless generations. Through story, fable and myth, relayed in various forms through differing cultures, human society has learned that the single twig finds [...]

To the Expositor: Back from three months in Mexico and catching up on the news in Harper-land only to find it’s the same old, same old. Busy dismantling our environmental laws to keep big business funders happy. Still pretending to be sound fiscal managers during these difficult times. A $10-billion [...]

To the Expositor: Volunteers from the area were feted by the Northeast Town at an appreciation evening on Wednesday, April 18. The refreshments, gifts of seed packets at the door, certificates awarded to representatives of many groups—it was all good. We received copies of the attractive new Leisure Guide, ‘Welcome.’ [...]

The Canadian government’s recent changes to how and where it doles out our foreign aid dollars has damaged this nation’s image abroad and helped to line the pockets of some of the most profitable companies in the world and we, the Canadian taxpayer, get to pay for the privilege. This [...]

To the Expositor: The Lake Manitou Area Association (LMAA) was established in 1993. Its activities include monitoring the ecological health of Lake Manitou and related educational activities. We wish to share with Expositor readers our serious concern with Lake Manitou’s continued ability to support its provincially significant lake trout fishery. [...]

To the Expositor: Just a note of appreciation to fellow Islanders Craig Maxwell and Maurianne Reade who received objective coverage in this newspaper of their efforts to ensure a competent voice will represent Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in our House of Commons (‘NDP elects new leader at national convention, March [...]

Course studies on Canadian society tend to focus on the many cleavages that exist in a relatively sparse population spread across the vast landmass of the world’s second largest country—with good reason. Cleft by language, culture, endless tundra and plains and split by towering mountain ranges, Canada’s relatively peaceful development [...]

To the Expositor: To our MPP and MP I write this letter, and to all those concerned. I read the editorial in your paper January 4, 2012 (‘Ontario should eliminate assessment on First Nations local acquisitions, page 4), but I found many didn’t agree with it. When a meeting was [...]

To the Expositor: Climate change is all everybody is talking about. People are protesting about environmental damages, but the damages will keep happening unless people can change their ways and a lot of sacrificing has to be done, like parking their cars more often and letting go of their luxury [...]

To the Expositor: In his letter to the editor (‘Drummond Report charts a clear path for the future of health care, March 7, page 5) Russ Boyles, chair of the Health Sciences North board of directors, praised the Drummond Report and stated that it affirmed his board’s opinion that when [...]