Remote Learning is Hard On Everyone
As both a parent and a teacher, I can attest that everyone who has been subjected to the challenges that the education system has faced since the pandemic first emerged can whole-heartedly and unequivocally tell you that it has been both mentally and physically exhausting to all involved. Let us… READ MORE
A lack of vision in municipal politics
For a number of years, volunteer board members from Pine Meadow Nursing Home in Northbrook, usually accompanied by local councillors from North Frontenac Township, made an annual trip to Glenburnie to plead for support from Frontenac County Council for a nominal amount of support for Pine Meadow, somewhere between $10,000… READ MORE
Turning the February COVID blues on their head
With only a small space for an editorial, I thought something about the lighter side of living with COVID-19 would be apt. There aren’t that many lighter sides to the pandemic, as we all know. We are in the midst of Lock-down 2.0 and the latest news about hyper contagious… READ MORE
Cancer During Covid
“You have breast cancer.” Those are the words that kicked off my summer of 2020. It all started one morning in June. The kids had just finished up school and we were all ready to begin enjoying the nice weather. I freely admit that I didn’t do regular self assessment… READ MORE
The News needs your help this year, but our restaurants need your business now
Last year, in our first issue of the year, long before we had any idea that 2020 would be dominated by a pandemic that would have an impact on our daily lives for 9 months (and counting), we published a call for reader support. It costs about $30 a year… READ MORE
Orange is the new Yellow
Kingston Frontenac Public Health confirmed on Friday afternoon, that the region is moving into the Orange zone on the Ontario colour coded COVID-19 protection zones as of Monday, December 21. It takes some checking to determine the difference between the Yellow and Orange zones in the Ontario pandemic colour coding… READ MORE
2020 has been hard on everyone
Every year we put the call out to local schools about our Christmas drawing contest. We rarely hear anything back, and each year as we are putting out the second to last paper of the year we wonder if we will get any drawings from the schools. This year was… READ MORE
New Pandemic Arises: Attack on the Environment
March madness had a new meaning this past season for basketball fans and the greater community alike; it marked the start of Covid-19. Yet, when it comes to the natural environment, Canada has not been sinking any baskets lately. Before March, movements such as Fridays 4 Future, and international discussions… READ MORE
Province of Ontario to exercise power over Conservation Authorities
The Ford government is changing the way planning decisions are made, providing a way for their own ministry to override an approach that protects the long-term health of local watersheds. The changes are included in “The COVID Recovery Act” in Schedule 6. Schedule 6 changes the decades old relationship between… READ MORE
The new Covid-19 vaccines; a guide for my sister
My sister has reservations about the new RNA vaccine produced by Pfizer and Moderna that will likely be approved for Canadians very soon. She heard that the vaccine has to be kept in “super cold freezers” and her Facebook friends are concerned that if they roll up their sleeves, they… READ MORE
Eating Crow
It is not uncommon for editorials we run to seem logical when they are written, but end up being proven to have been misguided, after a bit of time has passed. Last week, however, that editorial “Yellow zoned out” started to be shaky before it was even printed. When it… READ MORE
Yellow 'zoned out'
Kingston Frontenac Public Health has designated the entire region as a COVID-19 yellow zone as of Monday, November 23rd. On the four COVID-19 zones, as have been designated by the Province of Ontario, yellow is the second least restrictive, after green. It is followed by orange and red, and there… READ MORE
What the winter may hold for us
For the moment, we remain in a sweet spot as far as COVID-19 is concerned in Frontenac County. Our current case count is 0, and our total case count of 17 cases over the entire pandemic is about 0.2% of the caseload in 9.5% of the Ontario average (per capita).8.4%… READ MORE
Root causes of tax rate differences in Frontenac County
The Frontenac News ran an editorial two weeks ago (Vol. 20, edition 41, October 29) about a consultant’s report on how to improve the delivery of services from a cost and efficiency point of view in Frontenac County. The option of full integration of service delivery, municipal amalgamation, was not… READ MORE
Lockdown's. restrictions and our MPP
Lanark Frontenac Kingston MPP Randy Hillier has been carrying on a campaign against the restrictions that are in place in Ontario as part of a society wide attempt to keep the COVID-19 pandemic from infecting the general population. In Mr. Hillier's view, and that of a group of people, experts… READ MORE
Time to talk integration for Frontenac Municipalities
Early this year, Frontenac County took advantage of provincial grant money to fund a service delivery review for services delivered by the four Frontenac Townships and the upper tier, county level as well. The review was somewhat secretive. Strategy Corp, an Ottawa based consulting firm, conducted the it All that… READ MORE