Opinion

The Ontario government announced a plan to introduce more privately-owned clinics to offer surgeries and clear the backlog in the health care system. While this stop-gap option may help with short term outcomes, done improperly […]

Last week’s editorial in The Leader (January 11, 2023) looked back at municipal amalgamation which took effect in South Dundas, and across Ontario 25 years ago. While handled poorly in the late 1990s, it can […]

The Township of South Dundas (now Municipality of) came into existence 25 years ago this month. Like many municipalities in Ontario, the tumult of the Mike Harris-led late-1990s saw hundreds of municipalities combine into larger […]

The new year is often a time when people make resolutions to try to improve – approaching the next 12 months with optimism. Given the challenges that have faced Canadians in the past three years, […]

A recent South Dundas council water budget meeting has staff preparing a report on a 15 year old capital water infrastructure payment plan, which could increase the financial burden on current users. When the South […]

Food banks across the province, including rural food banks in Eastern Ontario are doing what they can to think outside the box to address hunger in these times of drastically increasing food insecurity. Food Banks […]

Ontario’s health care system is still in crisis. Faced with a respiratory trifecta of Influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 infections, hospital emergency departments and intensive care units are over run with people young and old who […]

Ontario’s Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act was voted into law November 28. The legislation will cause serious long term damage to the ability of municipalities to determine how they grow in the […]

Across the province, including the SDG Counties region, school boards, and the Municipality of South Dundas, the next term of council and trustee boards has begun. Throughout the past week, mayors, deputy mayors, councillors and […]

Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kieran Moore made a strong recommendation on November 14 for people to wear masks indoors again. The province is facing a “tridemic” of infection from COVID-19, Influenza, and […]