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July 23, 2026

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Second hand smoke

Dear Editor, Ontario is experiencing record-breaking forest fires raging out of control. Here, we get a couple of days of orange skies, and some of

It takes a village

For the past week, as we all witnessed the climate apocalypse play out across the tiny screens in our hands and sucked back the smoke-heavy

Arena Fund update

Dear Editor, On behalf of the Pontiac Arena Fund, we would like to provide our community with an update on the work underway to secure

Antinonymous

Dear Editor, I was surprised how visceral of a response I had today after reading some posts online penned by Anonymous. I know that there

Amusing ourselves to death

The title of this piece is borrowed from the influential 1985 book by NYU professor Neil Postman, who wrote about the dangers of a society

Solar electricity

Dear Editor, As I walk past the CAP building on my way to the Pontiac Museum, I notice that the roof is covered with solar

Rain on our parades

Last month in France, some 40 people drowned in the span of six days while trying to cool off their bodies during a deadly heat

Happy Canada Day, Pontiac

This Canada Day, we are sharing an editorial first published in this newspaper on July 1, 1987. At the time, many editorials were printed without

Subjunctivision

Dear Editor, A former neighbour, Christopher of Waterfall, told me about a book he’d read. This was decades ago, when ideas were commonly disseminated through

Clarendon’s pioneers

Dear Editor, On Sat., Aug, 8, Nancy Conroy will be leading a tour of the early pioneers in Clarendon at Shawville Village Cemetery on Main

Second hand smoke

Dear Editor, Ontario is experiencing record-breaking forest fires raging out of control. Here, we get a couple of days of orange skies, and some of us suffer breathing difficulties, a sore throat or eye irritation. My stepson in Madison, Wisconsin

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It takes a village

For the past week, as we all witnessed the climate apocalypse play out across the tiny screens in our hands and sucked back the smoke-heavy air that followed, I was imagining using this editorial space to somehow process the terror

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Arena Fund update

Dear Editor, On behalf of the Pontiac Arena Fund, we would like to provide our community with an update on the work underway to secure the future of our arena. Thanks to the incredible generosity of our community, every dollar

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Antinonymous

Dear Editor, I was surprised how visceral of a response I had today after reading some posts online penned by Anonymous. I know that there are many reasons that have been used over the last few hundred years for people

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Amusing ourselves to death

The title of this piece is borrowed from the influential 1985 book by NYU professor Neil Postman, who wrote about the dangers of a society guzzling easy-to-digest info-tainment on television as opposed to the more difficult task of conventional reading

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Solar electricity

Dear Editor, As I walk past the CAP building on my way to the Pontiac Museum, I notice that the roof is covered with solar panels. Solar panels can be of the type that generates electrical power, or they can

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Rain on our parades

Last month in France, some 40 people drowned in the span of six days while trying to cool off their bodies during a deadly heat wave. Some people didn’t know how to swim. In some places, swimming wasn’t safe. When

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Happy Canada Day, Pontiac

This Canada Day, we are sharing an editorial first published in this newspaper on July 1, 1987. At the time, many editorials were printed without a name attached to them, meant to reflect the general opinion of the newspaper rather

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Subjunctivision

Dear Editor, A former neighbour, Christopher of Waterfall, told me about a book he’d read. This was decades ago, when ideas were commonly disseminated through books.  This book, which I never saw myself, contained a concept called subjunctivision. It went

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Clarendon’s pioneers

Dear Editor, On Sat., Aug, 8, Nancy Conroy will be leading a tour of the early pioneers in Clarendon at Shawville Village Cemetery on Main St.. Many people in Shawville have ancestors that are buried in that cemetery. At the

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