Easy Being Green: What is the Carbon Tax?
This April, the long-promised carbon pricing system in Canada finally took effect — with a growingly heated anti-tax sentiment surrounding it. So what is it, ho...
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Brett Paulin is Designing Spaces With Love
Local interior and furniture designer did what a lot of Waterloo Region natives do — he left his childhood home in Galt for Toronto at age 18 in search of somet...
Opinion: Can Unity Destroy Authenticity?
“Well let’s talk it out … Let’s take the opportunity for a frank discussion,” wrote Carl Zehr, former Mayor of Kitchener on the provincial review of our local g...
Hyperlocal Travel: Getting Outside in a WR Winter
“How did I not know this trail existed?” my friend Laurie wondered.
In one small step, the GeoTime Trail in west Waterloo catapulted us from the Hadean eon int...
Paramedics in WR Will Soon Administer Ketamine and Fentanyl
Fading from memory, the hero ambulance drivers featured in the 1970’s TV-show Emergency, have been replaced by health-care professionals with an ever-evolving s...
How Waterloo Region Police Services Plan to Address Hate Crimes in the Region
The Region's hate crime rates are increasing and WRPS is trying to help...
If Streets Could Talk: Hespeler
When I was in high school, I would spend most summer weekends taking trips to Becker’s, the corner store on Fisher Mills in Hespeler — a neighbourhood and forme...
SASC Introduces New Role to Combat Human Trafficking
In Waterloo Region, the most common age of human trafficking victims are 12 and 13...
Easy Being Green: Navigating KW’s Bike Lanes
The Region has a "cycling master plan" and we all may start to see positive changes made to cycling safety...