January 2014 Archive

FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE: First Timers

First-Timers Seeking Municipal Office By Stephen Somerville Although the municipal election is not until this November, we already have two persons registered for the Councillor ...

POLITICS AS USUAL: Meeting of the Mayors

By Alison Collins-Mrakas The Mayors of the GTA’s municipalities met last Friday in Mississauga to devise a plan to put forward to the provincial and ...

ASK THE DESIGNER

Transform your space with window treatment By Jean Bisnaire, Niche Decor “I don’t really need window treatment for privacy in my family room but I ...

OTTAWA REPORT

By Lois Brown, MP Newmarket-Aurora MPs will soon be returning to Ottawa as Parliament gears up for a new session beginning January 27. There will ...

Activist surprised by Diamond Jubilee Park reaction

I was very surprised by some of the comments made by some of the residents at Wednesday’s public meeting for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Park ...

Brown responds to Liberal tax criticism

(Re: The “truth” about Tory “tax tales”, January 16, 2014) Our Conservative Government’s commitment to a low-tax plan is leaving more money in the pockets ...

Resident won’t forget comment at election time

(Re: Joint Operations Centre splits Council ahead of next week’s vote. January 16, 2014) So Councillor John Abel thinks that the increase in costs of ...

Lawless provides new “Footnote” to old instruments on latest album

It’s a natural feeling for singers, songwriters and other artists to create with a degree of loss or longing, according to Aurora native Gregg Lawless. Some of the oldest themes in the book are unrequited love, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, and quite often that sense of loss, being discarded, and consigned to a footnote and being forgotten in the wider scheme of things.

Tigers continue winning streak, taking down Stouffville, St. Michael’s

Things are going swell for the Junior A Aurora Tigers. The club has won seven straight and have lost only three of their last 20 games. The team improved on its division-leading record by handily defeating the Stouffville Spirit on and the St. Michaels Buzzers at...

AMHA player heads to Sochi ahead of Olympics – playing bandy for Somalia

Six years ago, Anwar Hared laced up his skates and stepped out onto the rink for the very first time. The young athlete honed his craft on skates playing hockey in the AMHA, but it wasn’t long before he decided to try out a similar ice sport called bandy.

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