Prince Edward County’s Newspaper of Record
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Editorial

Editorial
January 22, 2025

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There are no facts, only opinions, and if you believe in facts, you have the wrong ones. 

Editorial
January 15, 2025

Amalgamation brought about a system designed to protect a patchwork of small wards and hamlets from the overbearing “urban centres” of Picton and Wellington. Keep everyone honest and dispel fears the little guys from South or North Marysburgh were going to get lost in the shuffle in the brave new world of a unified County.

Editorial
January 15, 2025

On Councillor Sam's Place, noise in the neighbourhood, the Economic Snapshot, and Trump's threats.

Editorial
December 26, 2024

Even a come-from-away like me has to keep the old ways going. Sometimes in new ways.

Editorial
December 24, 2024

Our sense of home keeps us centered no matter where we are

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Editorials
December 18, 2024

Gratitude may be the hardest emotion. You need the confidence to be both generous and humble — to recognize and to be recognized. It is also probably the most necessary emotion. We are fundamentally social beings, indebted to one another in ways large and small.

Letters
December 18, 2024

On Development — and what gets lost. And Canada Post.

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Editorial
December 11, 2024

MSNBC’s Morning Joe has lost half of its audience since the election. That’s not much of a surprise. Who wants to tune in for the televised betrayal of a respected political commentator before they’ve even had a cup of coffee? Read about the travails of our man in Washington as the Trumpocalypse gets well underway.

Editorial
December 11, 2024

Protest Wednesday at 6:30 to Say No to the MZO! Lament for the White Cliffs of Picton.

Editorial
December 11, 2024

Idiots at the Gazette, Affordable Housing, and Base31's plans.

Editorial
December 4, 2024

That a crew of placemakers, designers, and developers are intent on reviving the old Camp Picton, turning it into the centrepiece of a series of villages offering multiple new ways of living here, is an unprecedented turn of events.

Columns
December 4, 2024

I have always been impressed by how people try to live their gained wisdom.

Op Ed
November 27, 2024

We don’t deserve this Base31-commissioned illusion of reality.

Editorial
November 27, 2024

Despite its promising title, the open-book exam is the absolute worst kind (except, perhaps, for the “take-home.”) Your answers are better the fuller and longer they are. If you skip a question, or a consultation, beware.

Editorial
November 20, 2024

The Community Services, Programs and Initiatives department has, together with the County Arts Council and The County Foundation, devised a plan to direct a portion of the municipality’s tourism revenues to fostering the arts. The plan makes perfect sense. Our arts organizations not only make this a flourishing, vibrant and utterly unique place to live, but draw great quantities of high-spending visitors.

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