Editorial

Editorial
June 23, 2026

Boys Club

You do not have a practical democracy if only a few retired people living on comfortable pensions can afford to serve

Editorial
June 17, 2026

A wedding, every single one, is a grand instantiation, a moment in a long, many-storied, multi-layered, and evolving tradition.

Editorial
June 10, 2026

Series of emails released in a Freedom of Information request show deals for rock quarrying at Picton Terminals as early as 2015 — and that zoning used to matter

Editorials
June 3, 2026

Ontario’s support for community colleges has hitherto been an incredible 44 cents to every dollar spent in other Canadian provinces.

Editorial
May 27, 2026

We don't live in the democracy we think we do, warns Andrew Coyne

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Editorial
May 20, 2026

Four years of complaints have done nothing to move the Councillor to acknowledge the clear conflict of his overlapping roles, at once newspaper publisher and elected representative.

Editorial
May 6, 2026

May 1 opened the nominations period for County Council. We wonder who will be brave enough to step up and offer their services in the age of social media.

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Editorial
April 29, 2026

According to this week's Globe and Mail, Prince Edward County is experiencing “a new golden age” of creativity. It's true.

Editorial
April 22, 2026

You, too, might be realizing you are on edge, subliminally worried that an invasion — of Canada, of the County, whatever — could happen at any time, anywhere, and take any form. Drones. Disinformation. Dystopia.

Editorial
April 15, 2026

The MNR granted Picton Terminals repeated exemptions from the requirement for a quarry licence under the Aggregate Resources Act based on information the owners supplied about their activities.

Editorial
April 8, 2026

Compared to the shimmer and glimmer of the internet, print seemed cumbersome, slow, and expensive by the beginning of the second millennium. And yet, against all the odds, it’s back in vogue. 

Editorial
April 1, 2026

The Gazette seeks any recollections, even the foggiest, from those who may have been at either of Sinatra’s Regent appearances.

Editorial
March 25, 2026

If history does not repeat itself, it certainly rhymes. Talk of Canada’s “greatest enterprise” echoes loudly today as we struggle to find a role and a contribution in a world going off kilter.

Editorial
March 18, 2026

The first jury trial of social media companies brought scores of highly classified internal documents to light. They change everything.

Editorial
March 11, 2026

Trove of damning documents revealed in the social media addiction trial ongoing in Los Angeles make a clear case

Editorial
March 4, 2026

In honour of International Women’s Day on March 8th, we explore The Woman’s Page, a special feature of the wartime paper 

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