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OPINION: Alzheimer's diagnosis leads to long goodbye

OPINION: Alzheimer's diagnosis leads to long goodbye

Columnist Wendy King looks at how the disease affects the caregiver; 'I see the toll it all takes'
OPINION: Forget griping about fuel prices, focus on efficiency

OPINION: Forget griping about fuel prices, focus on efficiency

'Personally, if I need a bigger vehicle, I rent one. I am always glad to return it and get back into my nimble, easy-to-park, small car,' writes Peter Bursztyn
OPINION: Buffy fraud a gut punch to Indigenous culture

OPINION: Buffy fraud a gut punch to Indigenous culture

'Reflection provides the lens that we can look through to see how that deception was orchestrated like a fairy-tale Disney production,' says area elder 
OPINION: Health system could use some tweaks in logic

OPINION: Health system could use some tweaks in logic

'Many of the people seen in an emergency department really do not belong there,' writes columnist Peter Bursztyn
OPINION: Citizens need to step up to help expand the Greenbelt

OPINION: Citizens need to step up to help expand the Greenbelt

Promoting highways and sprawl is entirely in the wrong direction to avoid water scarcity and contamination issues in the future, says columnist
OPINION: It's time to add 'reasoning' as the fourth 'R'

OPINION: It's time to add 'reasoning' as the fourth 'R'

'Of all serious threats to our society, disinformation stands head and shoulders above the others,' says columnist
OPINION: Province's policies don't align with citizens' values

OPINION: Province's policies don't align with citizens' values

'The environmental and housing policies of this government put much at risk, including places that clean our water, filter our air and prevent flooding,' says advocate
OPINION: Greenbelt reversal shows importance of community power

OPINION: Greenbelt reversal shows importance of community power

There was a vacuum of leadership from local and provincial elected officials that was filled by passionate community leaders, says advocate
OPINION: Municipalities becoming 'scapegoats' for housing crisis

OPINION: Municipalities becoming 'scapegoats' for housing crisis

'Municipalities can only approve new housing — they can’t build it themselves,' writes political columnist, adding it's unfair to make them the 'punching bag'
OPINION: Greenbelt debate reveals concern for dwindling farmland

OPINION: Greenbelt debate reveals concern for dwindling farmland

Controversy regarding province's removal of 7,400 acres from the Greenbelt 'only scratches the surface of a much larger crisis looming over Ontario,' says Ontario Farmland Trust official