Editorials

The CAQ’s darling (so-called) secularism bill has had its day in court. Well it’s four days, to be precise.  Bill 21, first passed by a majority vote (73-35) in Quebec’s National Assembly in 2019, bans some public sector workers in

Last week, with the flip of a switch, Pontiac mayors voted unanimously to end the MRC’s work-from-home policy. There was no consultation with its 40 or so employees, not even a warning that this would be coming. Most learned of

With four floor crossings in as many months, Prime Minister Mark Carney now ranks third on the list of Canadian Prime Ministers who have courted the most MPs from other parties between elections, beat out only by Liberal Jean Chrétien,

For those old enough to remember the post 9/11 period and the early years of the so-called global war on terror, this past week has been like an acid flashback.  Back then it would have been hard to believe that

This week’s paper shares several stories about people across the Pontiac organizing themselves to hold onto the spaces that hold us.  In Pontiac county’s northeastern corner, Danford Lake residents celebrated the beginning of a new chapter for their beloved community

This week, we almost lost another member of our Canadian newspaper family. The Eganville Leader, which about a year ago announced it would be going out of print this month, found a buyer just a week short of its planned

The news these past few weeks has been filled with some truly awful stories, from the school shooting in B.C. to the murder of two children in a community just north of our region. On Monday a young girl died

Love your neighbour as yourself. We know this from the Bible.  But covid taught us to be a little scared of our neighbours, and maybe a little scared of ourselves. The pandemic transformed us all from agents of love and