Candidates vying for election as councillors, mayors and wardens throughout the Pontiac are now off and running. In the Municipality of Pontiac, the three candidates for mayor have all had the job before and are back for more. Same with

In the final throes of the recent federal election, a question asked during the English-language leaders’ debate shed some troubling light on the current situation in Quebec politics. It began when host and moderator Shachi Kurl posed her now famous

This Thursday will be Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It presents an opportunity to reflect on the history of Indigenous peoples living in Canada, consider how we might repair the incomprehensible damage done, and begin to foster

For the 40th year in a row, locals laced up and took off for the Pontiac Terry Fox Run, traveling along roads and trails and engaging in other forms of exercise in support of “a dream as big as our

It was like a Jerry Seinfeld episode, an election about nothing. Then it started to revolve around the pandemic, with criticism of Trudeau for calling an election while a fourth wave was washing over the country, and of O’Toole for

The lacklustre shemozzle that was last week’s leadership debate was not so much the fault of its organizers as it was a reflection of a pointless election. We still haven’t heard anything resembling a good explanation for why the election

Anyone wondering why we suddenly find ourselves in the midst of a climate crisis, here is how it happened. Just over three decades ago, climatologists around the world began to share their observations on the warming of the planet in

One of the best things to happen all year happened this summer when Eva Baldi and Thomas Beck came to work with us.  Eva, who hails from Beechgrove, worked as a reporter for THE EQUITY. Thomas, a Clarendon resident, helped