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Email to the Editor: An open letter from health care workers

December 18, 2021 Bill Kingston

The following is an open letter from area health care workers on Friday, Dec. 17, 2021: Dear friends and neighbours across Lanark, Leeds and Grenville, […]

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Email to the Editor: Blustering from mask and vaccine opponents robbing a childhood

August 30, 2021 Bill Kingston

Fellow humans, hear me out. My children, your children, your nieces, nephews, neighbours are losing a precious chunk of their already brief childhoods while you […]

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COMMENTARY: O.P.P. East Region communication center closure will affect service

June 1, 2021 Bill Kingston

Outside of the urban centers, when you make an emergency call to the Ontario Provincial Police it goes to Smiths Falls, in Eastern Ontario. But […]

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Letter to the Editor: Mayors sitting on their hands on climate emergency

November 18, 2019 Bill Kingston

With reference to Sabrina Bedford’s article in the Recorder & Times “No Appetite for declaring climate emergency,” published Nov. 5, 2019, it must have been […]

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Letter to the Editor: Take care of Brockville path network

October 5, 2018 Bill Kingston

The evening of Oct. 4, 2018 at 4:30 p.m. on the walk path by Stewart Boulevard and Front Avenue a disabled man was travelling on […]

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LTE: The Fall of the American Empire

February 10, 2017 Bill Kingston

I can’t remember in my lifetime when a newly minted U.S. president has created such a turmoil not only within  his own government but its […]

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LTE: Education minister washing hands of school closures

February 3, 2017 Bill Kingston

I listened intently to an interview with Ontario Education Minister Mitzie Hunter. To sum up, I have zero confidence that the minister will do anything […]

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LTE: Media coverage of debates must be abolished

September 20, 2015 Bill Kingston

After the recent Globe Leaders’ Debate, I asked a friend if they had watched it.  Their answer was ‘’No, I am going to read the […]

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LTE: Ottawa is broken, time for real change

July 1, 2015 Bill Kingston

Dear Editor, After 10 years under the Harper government, Ottawa is broken. Canadians’ faith in politics has never been lower. After promising reform, the Conservatives […]

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