Publisher’s Column: What If We Lived in a County Where All...
By John Francis
So Bruce County pushed ahead with its Development Charge of $7,800 per new house despite the objections of Northern Bruce Peninsula. Our...
Publisher’s Column: Property Taxes Must Go Up By About 10%. But...
By John Francis
There are a few piles of old newspapers in my home office. They sit there, waiting patiently for me to figure out...
Publisher’s Column: Is Solar Power the Peninsula’s Crop of the Future?
By John Francis
On June 26, a delegation from Shift Solar asked MNBP Council to support a proposal to install a solar farm at the...
Publisher’s Column: Arena Reno – Is $1,121,000 for a Construction Manager...
By John Francis
The Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula has allotted ten million dollars towards a major renovation of the arena and community centre in...
Dragging Bruce County’s Budget Out of the 19th Century
By John Francis
When he appeared as a delegation to MNBP Council on Sept 11, Bruce County Director of Corporate Services, Edward Henley came to...
Publisher’s Column: Radon Gas — the Elephant in Our Rooms
By John Francis
You know the old joke:
Representatives from France, Germany, the USA and Canada are assembled to present papers on the subject of elephants.
The...
Publisher’s Column: NWT Premier is Angry. Why Aren’t We?
By John Francis
Excerpt from a news story on the CBC website, running under the headline:
‘Now I’m angry’: N.W.T. premier calls on Ottawa to provide...
Publisher’s Column: Wouldn’t It Be Lovely to Have Something as Nice...
By John Francis
Our whole family went down to Bluewater Park to watch the finish of the Bruce Peninsula Multisport Race — the one that...
Publisher’s Column: With Any Luck the New Normal Is a Lot...
By John Francis
Things were different during the pandemic. Most of our community’s public events dried up for two-plus years. And with no public events...
Publisher’s Column: Tourism and Economic Development — Who’s In Charge Here?Publisher’s...
By John Francis
Full disclosure: I’m on the Tobermory Chamber of Commerce Executive again, for the fifth or sixth time in thirty-seven years of membership....