Something new to worry about
August 4, 2026
Dear Editor, Just what we needed. This phenomenon may not be happening here yet, and may not ever, but I just heard about it, and
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Dear Editor, Just what we needed. This phenomenon may not be happening here yet, and may not ever, but I just heard about it, and
It was a jarring first day on the job. Over two years ago, freshly arrived in the Pontiac from Nova Scotia, my first assignment was
When Lorianne Bertrand was in Grade 3, she made a go at teaching her grandmother to read. Still herself new to making meaning of vowels
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dear Editor, Just what we needed. This phenomenon may not be happening here yet, and may not ever, but I just heard about it, and it magnifies my concern over the artificial internet taking over our lives bit by bit.
It was a jarring first day on the job. Over two years ago, freshly arrived in the Pontiac from Nova Scotia, my first assignment was to attend the McDowell Spring Fair. I remember the quizzical look on one volunteer’s face
When Lorianne Bertrand was in Grade 3, she made a go at teaching her grandmother to read. Still herself new to making meaning of vowels and consonants strung together in seemingly nonsensical combinations, she figured out how to teach this
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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