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November 5, 2009 RSS feed / Front Page

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Local News

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TJ's hosts breast cancer event

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

TJ's Hangar will be "a pub with no beer" on Friday the 13th when it hosts a family Stars of Pop evening to raise money for the fight against breast cancer and for other charities. More...

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Columns

In my opinion

Planning, reality are far apart
Wes Keller

Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq is reported to have blamed GlaxoSmithKline Inc., the H1N1 vaccine producer, "along with the panic," for the supply shortage that's already gripping the country after only one week. More...

Angles 'n' Attitudes

Time now to forget
William Bothwell

Remember, remember, The fifth of November, The gunpowder treason and plot. There's truly no reason Why the gunpowder treason Ever should be forgot. What was that all about? More...

National Affairs

Why not just relax and enjoy it?
Claire Hoy

With Prince Charles and his wife Camilla currently visiting Canada, the usual suspects, i.e. More...

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Sports

Muskies dump Crushers

By MIKE MALONEY Sports Editor

Two points were the treat for the Shelburne Muskies when they made a Halloween road trip to Shallow Lake this past weekend. More...

'Focus' costs Orangeville Crushers

The Orangeville Crushers are finding out there are few breaks when you play at this level and it was a lesson learned the hard way this past week, dropping consecutive games to Whitby and St Michael's this past weekend. More...

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ORANGEVILLE BANTAM AE Flyers were forced to settle for a tie in their recent contest against the Milton Winterhawks. More...

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Council revises bylaw on business surcharge

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

At its public meeting Monday night, Orangeville council revised a resolution it had made as a preamble to a bylaw aimed at making local taxpaying retailers more competitive with non-taxpaying, mobile vendors. At its Sept. More...

Mono's 2010 budget process launched

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

Mono council began its preparation of its 2010 municipal budget Tuesday night with a public meeting on the issue at Mono Centre Community Centre. More...

Few inoculated as flu season hits

By DAN PELTON Staff Reporter

Few places in the community remain sickness free this week as the onslaught of the influenza season, accentuated by presence of the H1N1 virus, has been particularly severe with few residents having been vaccinated. More...

Editorial

What's this? Perfectly pathetic pandemic planning?

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A uniform proposal

SOMETHING HAS BEEN MISSING in Dufferin's parades, be they next Wednesday's Remembrance Day marches, the Santa Claus parades coming sooner than some would like, or Shelburne's famous Fiddle Parade. That something is a local marching band. More...

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Mailbox

'No evidence links D&D to societal violence'

On 29 October, an article by Wes Keller dealing with a local homicide from the 1980s suggested a link to the Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) role-playing game. More...

An open letter re: hospital

The following letter was addressed to Sylvia Jones, MPP, Mayor Ed Crewson and Cholly Boland, CEO of Headwaters Health Care Centre Re: concerns re the closing of Shelburne Hospital This will be a very sad day for residents of Shelburne and surroun More...

'Think about what each writer is fighting for'

Re: ""YMCA 'achievement said to be an asset to all," (Oct. 29): In his latest Highland Companies press release, Mr. Daniher unthinkingly stated that had I been at the Oct. 15th Council meeting I would have been more informed. Mr. More...

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Regional News

Famed tenor loves life in south Dufferin

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

Tenor Mark Dubois has performed "in every major city in the world" in his 37-year professional career, for audiences of as many as 45,000, but he still ranks the Orangeville/Hockley area as among the greatest of all places to be. More...

Dufferin County and its neighbours were home to five of Ontario's 11 WW1 Victoria Cross winners

By KEITH HUNTER

Last year, about this time, Keith Hunter was asked to prepare a presentation for the Orangeville Rotary Club to be delivered at the club's Remembrance Day meeting. More...

OMB motion costs awarded to Orica

By WES KELLER Freelance Reporter

After criticising the principals for the number of lawyers they'd engaged to argue a motion, a Superior Court judge has awarded Orica Canada $45,000 in costs for last June's proceedings against East Luther Grand Valley. More...

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