Davies: 2023
Well, Google, you magnificent bastard, you’ve done it to me again. As we yell at our goalies in oldtimers hockey, ‘you had one job!’
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Davies: Community benefit funds
As the community locks in to Christmas Mode completely, West Carleton Online needs content, so we’re bringing Indubitably to you, almost right on time this month.
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Davies: NIMBYs versus the BESS
NIMBY stands for Not in my Backyard, and it refers to people (mostly property owners with something to lose) who have the unfortunate circumstance of a large project or development becoming their neighbour.
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Davies: Rural services budget squeeze victim
This school year started out with a whole scale life change for parents, when hundreds of West Carleton parents (maybe more, it’s hard to get a headcount) found out the day before school, their kids needed a ride to school.
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Davies: Online News Act hurts
As we wake up to the news former American President Donald Trump has been indicted for the fourth time, once again over his attempts to stay in power after he lost the 2020 election, we are starting to see something return to politics, and hopefully the media as well (heck, even society if I’m being greedy), that has been missing for far too long.
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Davies: Disappearing issues
Summer vacation is over. I was shocked to find out the last column I wrote was April 30. Oopsies. Instead of taking responsibility for the missed columns, I’m going to reframe it as a dire warning to readers of what life could be like without community journalism.
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Davies: Community heroes
It’s been a couple weeks of fear in West Carleton, and that fear has been accompanied by a couple weeks
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Davies: On Fullerton
Dr. Merrilee Fullerton started her political career roughly the same time I started West Carleton Online.
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Davies: Last year
We have no choice but to go headlong in to 2023. That’s the way time works. But tradition dictates first we look back at 2022. At least media tradition does.
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Davies: Litter box politics
The municipal election is over, and the result are staggering. Not so much the winners mayor-elect Mark Sutcliffe or Clarke Kelly’s win in Ward 5.
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