(Letters, April 23, 2015) Dr. Pattenden makes a compelling argument that even I can comprehend and sympathize with, but there is one thing that kills the "bill." The reality is that in nations where euthanasia was/has been/is legalized, it has always resulted in the slippery slope slide, where it has… READ MORE

After reading several stories about euthanasia, I thought I’d better let you know our family experiences in the Netherlands about this very slippery slope. My Mom was diagnosed with what the doctor told us was a “sister” of cancer in February 1965. Before Christmas of that year, we did not… READ MORE

Once again, Scott Reid's "Keeping in Touch" pamphlet arrived in my mailbox, courtesy of my tax dollars. This one attempts to discredit Justin Trudeau for making a tongue-in-cheek remark about the use of our CF-18s. Fortunately, Mr. Reid shows that Jason Kenney was quick to chastise Trudeau for his "juvenile… READ MORE

In response to Jule Koch Brison’s Letter to the Editor in the March 19 edition which claims the recent Supreme Court decision supporting choice for end of life is “subverting democracy”, the following information needs to be available to readers to correct the misleading conclusions outlined in the letter. The… READ MORE

First I would like to correct Mr. Bonnetta. His "Wind resistance in Denbigh", April 16 article is not entirely accurate. This meeting was supposed to be a question answer session not a debate. So how can he come away with the title wind resistance? Most of the people at the meeting… READ MORE

I have been reading letters to the editor and feel I must express my opinion regarding assisted suicide. I sat beside my mother, two sisters, a sister-in-law, a brother and a few friends dying with cancer, never wishing any one of them to depart before their natural time. What is… READ MORE

I wanted to address questions raised by Martyn Jenkyn (Letters, April 16) about a motion to investigate a speed limit on a section of Road #38 around the Hinchinbrooke Transmission Station. The motion came about as a result of a number of discussions with families living along that stretch of… READ MORE

The Boston Marathon attack was on April 15, 2013. On June 13, 2013, then-Minister Vic Toews announced funding for the Kanishka Project to research the causes and techniques of terrorism. Yet our MP Scott Reid sends out a flyer denigrating the attempt to "figure out its (terrorism's) root causes" and… READ MORE

The television licence for The Ontario Education Communications Authority, better known as TVO or TV Ontario, is up for renewal this summer.  Cloyne (CICO-DT-92) hosts one of the nine HD digital television transmitters that TVO operates across Ontario. You can spot Cloyne's TVO tower from Highway 41, next to Bon… READ MORE

In the 1930s the reeve of the rural municipality of McKillop #220 in Saskatchewan was worried that the citizens of his municipality couldn't afford healthcare. Somehow in the midst of the depression Reeve Anderson and his council managed to find enough money in the municipal budget to hire a doctor.… READ MORE

Just wanted to say how much I am enjoying Jonathan Davies' column on farms and farmers in Frontenac County. I appreciate getting to know more about opportunities to buy my food locally, but also I really appreciate how Jonathan links the local scene to what's happening globally. We are all… READ MORE

I see that Brett Cameron is proposing to get the speed limit reduced on Road 38 between the Hydro substation and White Lake Road because of the bend. Has there been an issue on this part of the road? Perhaps he would like to put 60 km on all bends… READ MORE

The last couple of weeks I have read letters to the editor from people opposing assisted suicide. I agree that people shouldn’t have the right to die for no reason, but that’s happening anyway; they are just doing it themselves and leaving their family shocked and grieving because they didn’t… READ MORE

In order to get re-elected to reduce investments in health care, education and veteran’s support; to cut all environmental protections, to spy on you and protestors, and to subsidize big oil; the Harper Government needs to buy votes. So if you have a child under 18, he will give you… READ MORE

On the back page of the March 19th issue of the Frontenac News was a Letter to the editor. This is unusual I thought, and I noticed it was written by my neighbour, Jule Koch, so I read it. I am very glad that I did even though it left… READ MORE

A big thank you note to Mayor Francis Smith and the Central Frontenac works crews. I worked for a very large municipality and always heard complaints about everything under the sun and moon. It was nice just every so often I and my fellow municipal employees got a note of… READ MORE