WINCHESTER – Infrastructure, responsible growth, and financial sustainability are central issues identified by three of the candidates seeking seats on North Dundas council later this month.   Three candidates, Jordan Hodge, Matthew Uhrig, and Cory Houle, responded to election questions from The Leader. Four candidates: Michael Erickson, Peter Guy, Edgar Ramirez Aguilar, and Gerald Jaquemet, did […]

Now that September has passed, the new visitor centre at the Drayton Valley Museum has also wound up for the season. As this was the first year the visitor centre was in place, Sandra Blades, the chair of the Drayton Valley Historical Society, and Ryan Fynn, the chair of the Drayton Valley Hospitality and Tourism […]

Affordable housing is the backbone of a thriving community. Single-bedroom apartments once obtainable on a minimum-wage job have become a vestige of what once was. That was the problem Mayor Carolyn Parrish, who is running for re-election in the municipal election, found herself in when she was elected mayor in June of 2024 following a […]

The fumes coming through the walls of Neskantaga First Nation’s nursing station warned of a crisis with a familiar smell. Diesel wafted from the flooded basement, a stench so strong it made people sick with headaches and nausea, residents said.  After they detected the scent, the building was shut down and with it the community’s […]

I. THE WARNING The ancestors knew. First Nation elders understood the south would march north eventually. They knew it would come in waves, sometimes slow, sometimes fast. Those ancestors told their kids, who told theirs, and so on until today. The south has already carved many changes. Decades ago, Webequie First Nation and Neskantaga First […]

● Mayor Lovatt has submitted a formal pre-budget request to Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy laying out Town priorities in need of greater Provincial support. ● He warned of a growing infrastructure gap, exacerbated by rising costs and a lack of sustainable funding for small but fast-growing towns like Stouffville. ● Lovatt noted the potential […]