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March 8, 2007 / Front Page

Green Party rallies at the Ag Centre

By LAVINIA KERR Staff Reporter

Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May visited Orangeville Tuesday and spoke to about 200 supporters at the Agricultural Centre in Mono. More...

Area roads shut down during storm

By LAVINIA KERR Staff Reporter

March roared in like a lion as Dufferin was hammered twice with two winter storm systems, one last Thursday and Friday and another affecting travellers on Monday. More...

Local News

Melancthon opts for by-election

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Melancthon Township Council has decided to have a by-election if necessary to fill the vacancy created by the death of mayor Ron Dillman shortly after he was elected to the office. More...

Amaranth setting budget piecemeal

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Amaranth Township councillors may have a budgetary wish list for a special March 26 meeting, but for now it's showing a zero increase in its 2007 draft. That's not to say the council hasn't committed itself to a few expenditures. More...

Photo/WES KELLER ALL FROM DUFFERIN AREA: Royal Canadian Legion Zone E3 youth education chairman Bill Edge poses with the first-place public speaking winners at zone competition in Beeton last Sunday. More...

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Heavy revenue losses predicted for T.O.

A few weeks ago a senior politician was speaking with this scribbler about the proposed pay increase for the elected people occupying the Provincial legislature. More...

Serious gasoline trouble?

Quite apart from any corporate opportunities to profit from reduced supplies of gasoline, the fact that any difficulty with one production source of petroleum products is having such a significant impact on the availability of fuel in the greater Me More...

Water is a limiting factor

I am writing this letter in response to the Tom Claridge editorial in a recent paper entitled "Water: a growth-limiting factor?" Water could indeed be a growth-limiting factor; not just for us in Dufferin County but, if we continue our mismanagement More...

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Regional News

Ottawa Journal

For the week of March 5-9, 2007

By David Tilson, MP Dufferin-Caledon

Anti-Terrorism Act: Protecting Canadians Nothing is more important than the protection and safety of Canadians. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY JILL BROYDEN Branch 233, Orangeville

Branch 233 Sports is still leading the pack in Darts Doubles. Comrades Bernie Miller and Mike Mills will represent the Branch at the Provincial Dart Tournament in Everett on March 17th. More...

Victim Services seeking crisis support volunteers

CaledonDufferin Victim Services, a crisis response service is seeking crisis support volunteers for the annual spring training being offered in April and May 2007. More...

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Wind Prospects plans two small wind farms in Amaranth Twp.

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

An international renewable energy producer is proposing 12 wind generators in two six-turbine plants west of the 6th Line of Amaranth, between 5 and 10 Sideroad (County 10). More...

Photo/SHELBY DEWSBURY WHILE FRIGID TEMPERATURES may have driven many people indoors, the cold weather has created ideal conditions on outdoor rinks across town as these hardy skaters out on the Rotary Park ice pad will attest to. More...

SIU finds no wrongdoing in incident

By LAVINIA KERR Staff Reporter

Special Investigations Unit director James Cornish has completed an investigation into an incident in Shelburne last month by concluding the police were not criminally responsible for injuries suffered by Derek Kennedy, 35, formerly of Shelburne. More...

Editorial

Supreme Court striking balance on equality rights

GAY RIGHTS ADVOCATES are cheering last week's Supreme Court of Canada ruling, which unanimously confirmed lower courts' conclusion that the Canada Pension Plan's survivor benefits should be available to all couples, homosexual as well as heterosexua More...

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Once more, that 'left out' feeling

THAT WAS A GREAT announcement in Toronto Tuesday, one that featured two political leaders who see themselves soon facing an election and seized on the opportunity to hand out enormous amounts of taxpayers' cash, albeit only where it was politically More...

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Columns

Why I'm irrepressibly optimistic!

Have you ever counted up everything in your life? I mean, everything you possess, everyone you know, every memory. It is an interesting exercise and one, I think, that each of us should perform ever so often. More...

The great divide

Acentury ago European aristocrats living on inherited and industrial wealth and North American 'robber barons' enriched by railroads and oil were enjoying the life of la belle époque. More...

Hometown examples would have been better

Last week, to honor Black History Month, secretary of state Jason Kenney wrote a newspaper column asking Canadians to recognize the "heroic campaign" by anti-slave activist British MP William Wilberforce in convincing Britain to outlaw the African s More...

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Sports

Kennel Club meets at Ag Centre to decide top dog

By LAVINIA KERR Staff Reporter

It was a dog-gone great weekend for the Orangeville and District Kennel Club, as over 600 dogs and their owners descended on the Agriculture Centre for the annual dog show. More...

Five Flyers teams in OMHA playoff hunt

By MIKE MALONEY Sports Editor

While most of the province has been plunged into a late winter deep freeze, things continue to heat up on the rinks around town as rep teams of the Orangeville Minor Hockey Association battle their way through both Tri-County and Ontario Minor Hocke More...

ODSS Bears fight way to CWOSSA semi-final berth

A day later than originally planned and without having settled their District 10 title against CCVI, the ODSS Bears Girls hockey team kicked off a drive for a CWOSSA title with a win over Waterloo Collegiate on Wednesday morning. More...

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