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Editorial As regular readers of The Current will know, our lawsuit against Madawaska Valley Township and members of its 2018-22 Council concluded earlier this year. The municipal insurer, Intact Public Entities (IPE), footed the entire bill for our successful claim through paying the defendants’ legal costs and our compensation, as …
Editorial The Law Society recently announced that it had stripped the licence to practice law because of misconduct on the part of Sault Ste.Marie lawyer Tim Harmar. If that name rings a bell it is because as a member of the Wishart Law firm he represented MV in the unsuccessful …
Editorial Yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Carney gave a speech pointedly targeting Trump without mentioning his name. He described the end of an era underpinned by United States’ domination, saying that this has now been ruptured. “Every day we are reminded that we live …
Editorial The Current wishes all its readers a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. Unfortunately, as we woke up this morning to learn that Donald Trump and his corrupt regime have declared war on Venezuela without advising Congress – let alone obtaining its approval – Canadians must face up …
EDITORIAL On 14 October 2025, The Current published an editorial entitled Why is CAO Klatt still employed by the Township? It contained the accusation that The Current’s request to make a delegation on that subject had been refused for contrived reasons. Subsequently, The Current proposed that, rather than referring the …
Editorial Madawaska Valley’s CAO, Suzanne Klatt’s, leading role in the malicious vendetta based on fabricated facts against The Current has been well documented throughout the course of our successful legal claim against members of the former Council and the Township itself. By her conduct Klatt flagrantly breached her legal, ethical …
Opinion For the first time in three decades Ottawa Valley forestry practices are being publicly challenged over glyphosate spraying. The uprising is growing exponentially and rattling the forest industry. The spraying is intended to reduce intra-specific competition until planted seed stock reach a “free to grow” state after about 10 …
Editor’s note: The Current originally published this article by the publisher on August 21, 2019 — almost six years ago. Then, we qualified it by describing it as “satire.” In the light of subsequent events, and in particular Trump’s conduct during his second term, perhaps it is no longer appropriate …
OPINION At the April 1st MV Council meeting, to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Councillor Joseph Olsheski, a name was drawn from a hat – former Councillor Ernie Peplinski. Is this really the best way to obtain the most suitable candidate for the job? Council had a …
OPINION For those who are not aware, I would like to take this opportunity to tell you that the Township of Madawaska Valley has passed a motion to declare the caboose as surplus and to have it removed from its site. Above: the freshly-painted caboose in 2015. Photo supplied. This …
OPINION The declining Forestry Sector The Forestry Sector has been the single largest employer in the Ottawa Valley. Several sawmills are located between Whitney and Eganville along Highway 60 in Renfrew County alone. Traditionally market demand has exceeded the regeneration rate of the forests being cut. This has led to smaller …
OPINION In January 2022 The Current published an editorial under this title. It condemned both the Valley Gazette and The Eganville Leader for hiding from their readers details of the court case against Madawaska Valley Township and members of its former Council. To remind you, the lawsuit made serious allegations …
EDITORIAL Tomorrow, Canadians will start experiencing the effect of Donald ‘Felonious’ Trump’s tariffs. He has used several reasons to justify imposing them, all of them replete with his trademark lies, grotesque exaggerations, and unhinged irrelevancies. As recently as Saturday he has repeated his belief that if he cripples Canada financially, …
EDITORIAL Editor’s Note: The history of the conduct referred to in this editorial dates back to when The Current began publishing in 2018. For the convenience of our readers, we have provided links to earlier articles below. It should be noted that the contents of those articles have never been …
Opinion Provincial legislation (Bill 212) aimed at keeping towns and cities from building bike lanes and even forcing some to remove them is bad news for everyone in Ontario, wherever they live. For people who live in the towns and cities directly affected, it will result in more dangerous streets …
