Editorial
The Advent of AI
All the words around AI, the idea that it can be “trained,” that it “reads,” that it “writes,” that it has “intelligence” — all of them are deceptive.
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.
Keep an eye out for the sheer number of times, and the sheer number of ways, you are told AI is something you ought to be using.
Readers Write about the new boardwalk in Picton Bay, the distress of Children's Aid, and Idling your Engine
Not every drowning victim will be saved on beaches with lifeguards. But in every case lifeguards will start search-and-save efforts sooner. While a frantic parent is trying to tell a 911 dispatcher where they are, a team lead will have already relayed that information — first responders are already on the scene.
CountyFirst: it calls itself the Prince Edward County Residents Association. It's anonymous, artificial, and unaccountable.
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.
It may just be our best kept secret, unknown even to those who live here.
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.
Readers Write: on the MZO request for Picton Terminals, on Bill 5, and on the arts in the County
Readers Write: on Glenwood Chapel, and Ontario's own Authoritarian Creep
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