Editorial

Editorial
July 23, 2025

Water Worries

Picton’s Water Treatment Plant was built at Chimney Point in 1928 and is scheduled to reach end-of-life in 2031. The plant is so archaic the County is at the point of machining replacement parts as most are no longer available.

Letters
July 23, 2025

CountyFirst, Defense Spending, and GranolaGate

Editorial
July 16, 2025

CountyFirst: it calls itself the Prince Edward County Residents Association. It's anonymous, artificial, and unaccountable.

Editorial
July 9, 2025

Even if you are not quite ready to enter an exhibit — a prize yearling calf, a basket of perfect, polished crabapples, or a precious bouquet of carefully tended dahlias — the Fair Book offers something perhaps more important. It’s a guide to how to enjoy the Fair. To appreciate the care that goes into every single competition, by every contestant, in every class and category.

Editorial
July 2, 2025

It may just be our best kept secret, unknown even to those who live here.

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Letters
June 25, 2025

The Mayor weighs in on being the target of hate speech.

Editorial
June 25, 2025

An MZO, by its very nature, removes municipal jurisdiction. It overrides municipal zoning. If granted, it would establish a Special Economic Zone right on Picton Bay, where the Terminals can do what it likes. Of course, the Terminals has always pretty much done what it likes.

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Editorial
June 18, 2025

Environmental responsibility and democracy are connected.

Letters
June 18, 2025

Readers Write: on the MZO request for Picton Terminals, on Bill 5, and on the arts in the County

Letters
June 12, 2025

Readers Write: on Glenwood Chapel, and Ontario's own Authoritarian Creep

Editorial
June 12, 2025

None of these festivals, launches, lunches, concerts, fundraisers, or celebrations makes any money, but they are the reason many of us are here, and many more are on the way.

Editorial
June 4, 2025

It was not a promise to send the Royal navy should the occasion arise, but it was certainly a flex of the possibility.

Letters
June 4, 2025

Readers write: to our MP, about the Resistance, and on development.

Letters
May 28, 2025

Readers respond to the dropping of the charge against Picton Terminals, and Charlie Angus's visit to Picton.

Editorial
May 28, 2025

It is essential that all new, large-scale construction in the County be built not to rely on fossil fuels.

Editorial
May 21, 2025

Readers write about Ford's sucker punch to municipal development, raising the ships, and hostility to those from Away.

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