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local news

CATCH UPDATE
by Don McLean

The city’s commitment to ensuring environmentally sound decisions is being called disingenuous by citizens fighting to save the last convenience store in the Pleasant Valley neighbourhood of Dundas. They question the accuracy of the sustainable development analysis used to support a staff recommendation that would allow replacement of the store by three single–family houses.
Each staff report is required to include a “triple bottom line” (TBL) examination of the community, environmental and economic impacts of the recommended course of action. [ more ]

perspective

DEAR MAN LANDERS
by A. Dowler

A good friend of mine is getting married and who else could he ask to be the best man but me, Man himself. So among other things I’ve been given the task of planning this guy’s last night in bachelorhood and throwing a kick ass party. Here’s the catch: he says he doesn’t want any strippers. No strippers? That’s like playing football without a ball. It’s obvious to me the guy who once drank beer out of his shoe because he couldn’t find a glass is no longer speaking on his own behalf. [ more ]

letters to the editor

IN MEMORY
by A. Dowler

Victoria Lauren Pesowski
1986–2008

Our Christmas’s were fun,
All the food, presents and songs.
Opening presents in the early morning,
In our pajama’s and long johns.
The feast that would follow,
That would empty all the cupboards,
We would eat it all, we sure were Hubbard’s!
Our birthdays and showers,
Everyone would be there.
It was full of love,
And showed how everyone cared.
We got some sad news,
That our cousin Tori was ill,
With a very serious illness,
That tests all your will. [ more ]

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