In our Conversation with the Candidates federal election event, Liberal candidate and incumbent Sophie Chatel promised People’s Party candidate Todd Hoffman that if elected, her government would lift all federal internal trade barriers by Canada Day. In return, Mr. Hoffman

The story of what compelled my grandparents, David and Rosaleen Dickson, to pack up their life in the city and swap it for running a community newspaper here in the Pontiac was never one I got to hear from the

The promoters of vaping – largely the e-cigarette divisions of tobacco companies – market it as a way to quit smoking. Vaping involves the use of e-cigarettes, roughly the size and shape of a pen, that can be loaded with

Yes, we’ve got Promise, right here in Pontiac County. Promise with a capital P and that rhymes with E and that stands for school, well, école (with apologies to The Music Man). Consider the recent activities of some Pontiac students

Municipalities levy property taxes based on the value of the property being taxed. A key measure of a property’s value is what someone is willing to pay for it. In Alleyn and Cawood, people have been willing to pay quite

In 2001, Canada’s Lloyd Axworthy led a United Nations commission that promoted the adoption of a resolution that would obligate the international community to intervene in cases of ethnic cleansing, genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in states that

Once again, Canada has held a peaceful, orderly election process with an uncontested outcome. We may take this for granted, but we shouldn’t. It is the result of a rules-based system in which we all have confidence that it will

In a national election where the competition between candidates often turns ugly, it was heartening to witness last week’s conversation among the people vying to represent Pontiac-Kitigan Zibi in which the interplay among them was respectful, civil and, at times,