Submitted by ron on Fri, 12/11/2020 - 17:33
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(Lights illuminate the walkway from Brockville's COVID-19 assessment centre.)
Submitted by ron on Tue, 10/01/2019 - 22:43
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(The flag of the People's Republic of China flies behind Brockville city hall on Tuesday.)
Submitted by ron on Wed, 06/05/2019 - 14:27
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(Coun. Matt Wren (File Photo)
Brockville council may have given us its first instance of tactical green-shaming, and it was a thing to behold.
Submitted by ron on Tue, 05/28/2019 - 17:53
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Cost-cutting is now officially part of the Ontario zeitgest, in a way it hasn't been since the era of Mike Harris.
Submitted by ron on Wed, 05/15/2019 - 14:59
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Public health authorities, and the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit among them, have long been ripe for accusations of bureaucratic excess.
I have frequently seen our local health unit do little to discourage such accusations, over the past two decades.
Submitted by ron on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 10:17
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You know the drill, people, but for those who are new to the Lirpa Loof tradition that once made it to newsprint in a less rancorous age, please be assured, the previous post about SNC-Lavalin being pressured into covering the Brockville Railway tunnel's debt was an April Fool's joke.
Submitted by ron on Mon, 04/01/2019 - 11:09
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The Brockville Railway Tunnel has a new and unexpected saviour.
Submitted by ron on Sat, 11/17/2018 - 13:49
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Linda Kay (via Concordia)
Every young journalist’s career will inevitably trip up on that first big mistake.
Submitted by ron on Thu, 09/20/2018 - 13:24
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(Tom Blanchard, left, was unmoved by Phil Deery on Tuesday.)
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