Prince Edward County’s Newspaper of Record
April 14, 2025
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Editorial

Editorial
April 2, 2025

IN REAL LIFE

The conspiracy theorists and buffoons have moved out of the shadowy mirror world of X and into real life, where they have taken over the Department of Justice, the Pentagon, the Department of Defense. They have set their sights on Canada and Greenland. But they are so brazen, so outlandish, the whole world is awake to the threat they represent.

Editorial
April 9, 2025

Real life, actual stuff, the facts on the ground. Hold on to them. They are powerful weapons in a rabid war of empty rhetoric and stupid ideas. 

Editorial
April 9, 2025

Climate Change, the CBC, and Assisted Dying on readers' minds this week.

Letters
April 2, 2025

Readers consider the Federal Election, not defunding the CBC, and social media disinformation

Editorial
March 26, 2025

Tesla shares are in free fall — down 42 percent since the beginning of the year — as unit sales plunge around the world. That sudden steep decline represents solidarity.

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Editorial
March 26, 2025

Readers write about threats to the CBC, and the right kind of development.

Letters
March 19, 2025

On Canadians and Americans, and a series of important Climate Consultations

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Editorial
March 19, 2025

Tourism can be a double-edged sword. Find a striking location, an enviable place to live, full of vibrant interest, unique unto itself, and destroy it. Turn it into a cleaned up, micromanaged, staged version of what it once was. Make it into a backdrop for “experiences,” expensive accommodations, and overpriced restaurants. Let the public run roughshod over it. Charge admission. 

Editorial
March 12, 2025

Our Man in Washington reports back.

Editorial
March 12, 2025

We have come to expect zero in the way of moral or ethical considerations from the companies, and the countries, we nevertheless patronize, even if they deny workers the right to unionize, never mind exploit child labour. 

Letters
March 5, 2025

Cuts at Loyalist College hit home, and lack of due process at Committee of Adjustment

Community Focus
March 5, 2025

From St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church to The Andrew: Reimagining community, creativity and courage for a new season

Editorial
March 5, 2025

We are suddenly no longer shackled to the monolithic market to the south, with which, in its more extreme, libertarian modes we have always had stark divergences in values and in public policy.

Editorial
February 26, 2025

How does Picton Terminals' rock quarrying relate to the question of a variance for P & H? Perhaps just in the fact that none of the destruction was allowed to enter the consideration of the question at hand. It was, as they say, the elephant in the room.

Letters
February 19, 2025

Readers on Picton Terminals, building of grain silos on the port, and strategic voting dreams

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