Columns

By Al Lowe
Contributor

Since the legislature rose in June and MPPs were sent back to our ridings, I have been focussed on meeting with people in communities across the riding.

Newspapers across North America are grappling with a decline in revenue and all major daily newspapers are suffering from a decline in the number of readers they reach. It is a troubling problem in the industry.
At the same time, studies are showing that more North American people are following news than ever before. They are choosing to use the web to gather in their facts. The issue for newspapers and magazines is how to keep those readers reading hard copy editions or pay to read their information on line.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

Credit unions are not your typical financial institution. They are democratic, membership based, and not-for-profit financial institutions that are an important part of northern and rural communities. Unfortunately, the Harper Conservatives have chosen to raise the income tax for credit unions and will ultimately punish their members.

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAF/MRA Rep.

By Al Lowe
Contributor

Sometimes you don’t realize how fortunate you are until someone shows you. As I sat by our chimera on Sunday evening and the logs burn to red-hot coals, I had forgotten the pleasure a fire can bring in the waning daylight hours.

On August 1 by-elections were held in five ridings in Southern Ontario, as a result of the resignation of four former Liberal Cabinet Ministers and former Premier Dalton McGuinty.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru