Prince Edward County’s Newspaper of Record
December 22, 2024
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Editorial

Editorials
December 18, 2024

In Gratitude

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Editorial
November 13, 2024

I began to realize how much this was a celebration of collective cultural memory

Editorial
November 13, 2024

The County wineries shifted Wassail from the apple trees in winter to the grapevines in late fall, the time for local vintners to celebrate the harvest come in, all the hard work done, the vines wrapped, ready for winter. Time to invite the neighbourhood in to drink and to sing, to wassail the vines. As Richard Johnston, of By Chadsey’s Cairns, wrote in these pages last year, “We needed the visitors to come in the darkest, most depressing time of the year, November, and maybe December for good measure.”

Letters
November 6, 2024

This week's letters are all concerned with the Wrecking Crew, and a dysfunctional Council.

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