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July 23, 2026

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Opinion

The loss of civility

Dear Editor, Democracy, at the core, includes the tenet that everyone is entitled to their opinion. At no time is this more sacred than in

This is your world

Dear Editor, Elections are coming; your chance to shape your world. Here’s what I would like to see in the upcoming municipal and MRC elections:

What they say, how they listen

This Wednesday evening, THE EQUITY is hosting a Conversation with the Candidates running to be MRC Pontiac’s next warden.  We’re hosting the public event at

Looking for pioneers

Dear Editor, Are any of your readers the descendants of the original pioneers? We at the Pontiac Archives are making a map of Clarendon pioneers

Pulling in the same direction

Last week, members of the public got to hear a presentation regarding the potential for integrating fire services throughout the Pontiac region. Put on by

Insulting campaign

Dear Editor, I feel insulted. I was watching YouTube, as usual, and a panel popped up in my feed, so I decided to see what

Things have changed

Dear Editor, A long time ago – in the early ‘60s – I lived in Shawville. My father, Dr. Roly Armitage, along with Mickey Hodgins

The loss of civility

Dear Editor, Democracy, at the core, includes the tenet that everyone is entitled to their opinion. At no time is this more sacred than in the moment when someone is approaching the voting booth.  We all have something we can

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Groups fostering trust with politicians go far

Dear Editor, Community volunteer organizations can do wonders when they work cooperatively with politicians. It is the philosophy of the Citizens of the Pontiac (CoP) that citizens shouldn’t rely only on busy elected officials to initiate every program that could

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This is your world

Dear Editor, Elections are coming; your chance to shape your world. Here’s what I would like to see in the upcoming municipal and MRC elections: voters asking questions of the candidates before they vote, rather than complaining afterward that councillors,

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What they say, how they listen

This Wednesday evening, THE EQUITY is hosting a Conversation with the Candidates running to be MRC Pontiac’s next warden.  We’re hosting the public event at École secondaire Sieur-de-Coulonge in Mansfield. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and our live stream, which

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Looking for pioneers

Dear Editor, Are any of your readers the descendants of the original pioneers? We at the Pontiac Archives are making a map of Clarendon pioneers using information from Bert Stark’s map and the map produced by Joanne Brownlee. On it

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Pulling in the same direction

Last week, members of the public got to hear a presentation regarding the potential for integrating fire services throughout the Pontiac region. Put on by staff from the MRC, the evenings were granular in their detail about how the costs

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Keeping progressive Canadian values in mind

Dear Editor, Prime Minister Carney is visiting the American president this week, trying to get an economic deal done with this temperamental personality. Trump has raisedtariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum and lumber and wants to dismantle the quota system

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Insulting campaign

Dear Editor, I feel insulted. I was watching YouTube, as usual, and a panel popped up in my feed, so I decided to see what it was about. It wasn’t a video, but an ad, pretending to be a poll.

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Things have changed

Dear Editor, A long time ago – in the early ‘60s – I lived in Shawville. My father, Dr. Roly Armitage, along with Mickey Hodgins and many other Shawville residents, put together a plan to fund and build an arena

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