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Jun 17, 20 •
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Municipal support cash for C-K small businesses just $200K for now Imagine in your mind the sound a small pebble makes when it is dropped or thrown into a body of water. That is also the sound that the municipal COVID-19 assistance money will make on...
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Apr 6, 20 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Viewpoint • Mary Beth Corcoran • 1 Comment
Analysis By Mary Beth Corcoran While sitting at home and self-isolating, a few things have become very clear to me while scrolling credible media sites. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has stepped up to be the kind of leader we want and need during this crisis....
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Mar 26, 20 •
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Editor’s note: This is an op-ed written by News Media Canada chair Bob Cox. It appeared in today’s Winnipeg Free Press. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lied to the country. That’s not an easy thing to write about the most visible authority figure...
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Mar 25, 20 •
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For the past six years, nothing has prevented this little newspaper from publishing. Yes, we took time off over the Christmas holidays and voluntarily skipped publishing for a week, but that was about it. And now, a tiny little organism is about to change all...
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Mar 19, 20 •
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Amidst all the madness that is spreading online across social media right these days with the COVID-19 pandemic, one post in particular has a very simple but profound message. “Your grandparents were called to war. You’re being called to sit on a couch....
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Mar 11, 20 •
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Residents who have been forced out of their homes along Erie Shore Drive have every right to be seriously ticked off – at Mother Nature, and government. They were essentially booted out of their homes by the municipality on Monday just 10 days after...
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Mar 4, 20 •
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The proposed changes to Victoria Avenue as part of the infrastructure renewal project to update storm and sanitary sewers has residents on the street – and across Chatham – fighting mad. After a public information meeting organized by the municipality...
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Feb 26, 20 •
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Chatham-Kent is a community that rallies behind good causes, but there has been no project that has garnered more local support than the Chatham-Kent Hospice. Since its inception, the concept of the hospice experience that allows people to die with dignity...
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Feb 19, 20 •
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While the Personal Support Worker (PSW) crisis is in the forefront right now, the Canadian Association of Nurses is warning that an aging population is just one factor that will lead to a nursing shortage by 2022, by upwards of 60,000 nurses. That...
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Feb 19, 20 •
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It’s no secret I am a huge fan of Morena McDonald of 519 Events and Promotions, and I have been since meeting her while she was a reporter for CKXS Radio in Wallaceburg. I am also a fan of the events she puts on, particularly the ones for women, about women...
