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December 17, 2025

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Editorials

Cause for celebration

Dark clouds are gathering over this year’s celebration of Canada Day. The 154th anniversary of the founding of our country comes three weeks after. .

A vote for good government

Canadian democracy is a quirky thing.  Under our first-past-the-post rules, it can seem to make sense to vote for a candidate you don’t really like

“It’s over for the little guy’

Editor’s note: This editorial was first published in this paper on March 3 of this year, and is being republished because it’s still as relevant

Canada’s Shame

215 dead children.  The headlines across the country have been repeating this disgusting statistic since it was revealed by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation

Not again…

The truth really is stranger than fiction. Last week Pontiac MP Will Amos made more international headlines with his second video conference gaffe in as

Bring on summer

May 28 can’t come quickly enough. Last week the provincial government announced its reopening plan and it was met with a mass exhalation of breath,

Could be worse

Well, the long awaited update to Quebec’s language charter is here, after being one of the key election planks that the governing CAQ party used

Communication breakdown

There has been much said and written about the federal government’s latest bit of outrageous stupidity, Bill C-10, which seeks to treat all digital streaming

Changing course

While it appears cases are plateauing or trending downward in the Pontiac and across the province, it’s a good time to assess some of the

New day, old problems

The thing that many in this community have been dreading for the past year finally happened last week, as a COVID-19 outbreak was declared at

Cause for celebration

Dark clouds are gathering over this year’s celebration of Canada Day. The 154th anniversary of the founding of our country comes three weeks after. . .

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A vote for good government

Canadian democracy is a quirky thing.  Under our first-past-the-post rules, it can seem to make sense to vote for a candidate you don’t really like in the hopes of. . .

Read More »

“It’s over for the little guy’

Editor’s note: This editorial was first published in this paper on March 3 of this year, and is being republished because it’s still as relevant as ever. This past week News Media Canada, the lobbying group representing Canada’s print media,

Read More »

Canada’s Shame

215 dead children.  The headlines across the country have been repeating this disgusting statistic since it was revealed by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in British Columbia on May 27 but it’s a hard one to wrap your mind

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Not again…

The truth really is stranger than fiction. Last week Pontiac MP Will Amos made more international headlines with his second video conference gaffe in as many months. This time was much more salacious, since he was alleged to have been

Read More »

Bring on summer

May 28 can’t come quickly enough. Last week the provincial government announced its reopening plan and it was met with a mass exhalation of breath, like a weight was lifted off our chests. The date was set that the province-wide

Read More »

Could be worse

Well, the long awaited update to Quebec’s language charter is here, after being one of the key election planks that the governing CAQ party used to ride to a comfortable majority in 2018. The mammoth piece of legislation (100 pages

Read More »

Communication breakdown

There has been much said and written about the federal government’s latest bit of outrageous stupidity, Bill C-10, which seeks to treat all digital streaming services available to Canadians as broadcasters and regulate them like radio or TV stations. Plenty

Read More »

Changing course

While it appears cases are plateauing or trending downward in the Pontiac and across the province, it’s a good time to assess some of the response to this third wave. Early on in this public health disaster, there were plenty

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New day, old problems

The thing that many in this community have been dreading for the past year finally happened last week, as a COVID-19 outbreak was declared at the Pontiac Hospital. As of Monday afternoon, there were . . .

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