The Lindsay Advocate - December 2021

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15 12 Editorial: In celebration of the arts, we welcome the Academy’s reopening 13 Opinion: Companies that can grow to provide more jobs are needed; here’s how to do it 15 Cover Story

The Academy is back after 20 long months. What its reopening means to Lindsay’s downtown.

20 Meals on Wheels is the original food delivery service.

We talk to a volunteer and a grateful program recipient.

19 19 More than 18 doctors

needed to serve people throughout Kawartha Lakes as 3,800 people go without a family doctor.

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4 Letters to the Editor 8 UpFront 11 Benns’ Belief 35 Cool Tips for a Hot Planet 40 The Local Kitchen 41 Crossword 43 Friends & Neighbours 44 Just in Time 46 Trevor’s Take

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Praise for Ross Memorial Hospital at difficult time

I am writing to make the community aware of the outstanding services in Lindsay at Ross Memorial Hospital.

We are originally from the Toronto area where there are hospitals full of amazing surgeons, nurses and support staff, with full access to new equipment. Our experience four years ago, when Dad was at Ross Memorial, while wonderful, was different than we are having now with Mom due to COVID. Mom is in the palliative unit, sadly at the end of her life.

The exceptional care we have received is from the same amazing doctor we had with our dad — Dr. Mark Chandra, who gives wonderful care and takes the time to listen. He figures out the best plan and then follows up. It’s amazing to our family the grace this doctor has. We found the same with Dr. Brent MacMillan a few weeks prior to this palliative care admission. The nurses at RMH have the caring personality you only hope you may find.

The palliative wing is full of compassionate, knowledgeable orderlies, PSWs, RPNs, RNs and amazing volunteers willing to almost do anything they can to help ease the pain.

The cleaning staff, so kind, quietly works around such a difficult space and yet we are very impressed by the state of the halls and rooms. All seem to work together for the better good of not only the patients but the families. With COVID, there were many precautionary steps taken and rules to be followed to keep us safe yet somehow, they made us feel like we were home. Welcoming, wonderful care we truly needed to help us through this difficult time in our lives.

With the holiday season approaching, I hope many readers will take the time to donate what they can. Please help support this wonderful local hospital.

Darlene Hannam and the Thompson family, Cavan

Happiness and health should be worked on and measured

Re: Benns’ Belief, November edition, (“What if our health was considered in all policies?”)

I would seriously consider moving to Finland if my family and life weren’t holding me here. Health considerations

in policy-making could be the most intelligent way to improve our economies, health and environment.

It is those tasked with creating and revising policy who need to change their considerations when making decisions. That isn’t easy when the old guard is on duty, and as you allude to, the influence of lobbyists and political donations is so powerful. Yes, I have lived long enough to be skeptical of the motives of those in power.

Change is hard, and those in power hold the keys to positive change. Natural law dictates that change, after all, is inevitable. So how are we planning for it?

Who are we expecting to benefit from these plans?

Robert F. Kennedy once said, “The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play.

It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short except that which makes life worthwhile.”

Some may say this is pie-in-the-sky stuff, but I believe he had it right, and perhaps we, in Canada, should be measuring our gross national happiness as well as our gross national product.

Christmas, for me, is a time to reflect on the past and plan for the year ahead. Wishing all a profoundly happy holiday and 2022.

Brian Smith, Lindsay

Reader says our garbage should be turned into energy

Re: City delays hard financial choices to come (November Advocate), as part of the solution, Mayor Andy Letham asks, “Can we pick up garbage every second week?” On the subject of garbage sorting, collection and disposal, I harken back to a letter to the editor (Advocate Feb. 2021) where the writer claims that “municipalities are negating our efforts by dumping everything into landfills.” When invited to respond, the city’s waste management department replied, in part: “The market for recycling has drastically changed in the past few years. What used to be a profitable space is now even more of an expense as it is extremely difficult to find companies to buy the reused material.”

While they don’t come right out and say it, I wonder how much of it eventually winds up in landfill anyway.

I would suggest to council that they should take a

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look at the “waste for energy” option (incineration).

It seems to be working well for Durham/York. Of course, environmentalists are horrified at the thought, but great technological advances are being made to clean up emissions. It would surely be worth at least investigating the possible economic and environmental advantages and disadvantages of such an approach.

Carl Sweetman, Lindsay

Mayoral candidates should get copy of financial plan

In reading your article on the financial difficulties that the city has, and Mayor Andy Letham’s take on the solution, I would like to hear the opinion of the mayoral candidates for the next municipal elections. I would suggest that each candidate be given a copy of the city’s financial plans, give them a couple of months to study said plan and then each candidate would need to provide their written solution to the problem. In turn, this allows the electorate to have a better understanding of their candidates.

Dolores Rodnick, Little Britain

Diversity is fellowship

Re: “Diversity isn’t always easy,” the letter from Gene Balfour in the November edition of the Advocate.

The tone of this letter suggests the author would have been more comfortable if his old neighbourhood had stayed WASP. Change is only painful for myopic racists who refuse to accept the fellowship that diversity brings.

Mark Kahansky, Lindsay

What party’s policies really matter to you?

Bravo to Barbara Doyle for standing as the NDP candidate for Haliburton Kawartha Lakes Brock in the forthcoming (2022) Ontario provincial election. In our riding, it is very tough to be a candidate for any progressive party (Liberal, NDP or Green) and have a chance of winning.

For largely cultural reasons, and/or lack of critical thinking, most voters in HKLB vote Conservative, often against their own best interests.

Frequent photo-ops and attendance at community events are the minimum requirements of an MPP’s and MP’s job.

When you see these funding announcements, ask yourself how they help constituents in this riding on an CONT’D ON PAGE 7

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About our cover photo This month, the Advocate’s cover comes courtesy of Mike Palmer of Roaming Focus, a photography and film production studio that has worked on commercials, documentaries and narrative films and projects of all sizes — including for some of the biggest companies in the world.

We were keen to work with Mike for this issue’s cover, and he came through with a beautiful shot.

We asked him how it came about.

“Everyone loves the first snowfall of the year and I’m no different. I was lucky enough to be at my offgrid cabin south of Kinmount when the first flakes started falling, so I grabbed my camera and did my best to capture the excitement and beauty that comes with the season’s first snow fall,” he said.

We also wanted to know what the best thing was about shooting outside in Kawartha Lakes.

“Beyond the obvious natural beauty of the area, it’s the constant discovery of unique vistas and perspectives. I’m always trying to explore new roads and waterways and I’m always pleasantly surprised at what’s around the next corner — we’re very lucky!”

Some of Mike’s work was also featured in the November 2020 edition of the Advocate when we did a feature story on his wife and partner — television and movie actor Caroline Palmer.

To learn more about Roaming Focus or to work with Mike, visit roamingfocus.ca or email him at mike@roamingfocus.ca

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LETTERS TO EDITOR CONT’D FROM PAGE 5

ongoing basis. How do they help those who struggle to keep warm in winter and put good food on the table? Do they help parents afford fees for hockey at the arenas or send their kids to camp? Do they help treat addictions (which are a serious and growing problem in our riding)? Do they provide residents in our long-term care facilities with better care?

Do they help retain much-needed health-care workers?

Do they help support the environment? Do they raise those making minimum wage above the poverty level? Do they make our schools safer?

So, before you go to vote next year, please remember that most COVID-19 benefits were directed from the federal Liberal government. Then ask yourselves what the Ontario Conservative Party has done to make your life better in the last four years.

Judi Forbes, former federal Liberal candidate, Beaverton

Council staff don’t have answers because they’re the problem: Reader

Your report on the budget deliberations of the council was very informative. (Cover story, November Advocate.)

It should be read by all taxpayers before the next election.

The councillors, as private citizens, all know that living within one’s means is a fundamental philosophy for managing life in a responsible, and successful, way. The staff policy of kicking the debt “can” down the road cannot be countenanced any longer.

The contrary philosophy of putting away money for a rainy day, or simply saving up until you have the purchase price, has never been discussed. Going without things you cannot afford is a stab directly at the heart of the bureaucratic beast.

For 20 years we have been trapped in the staff’s only solution — to raise taxes, reduce services, increase charges, close facilities and create special levies. Their solution to the resulting distress is to hire more staff at the upper end. The excess staff do not provide answers, because it is they who are the problem.

The garbage collectors do a much more important job than the administrative staff. But a reduction in garbage collection has been cited as a possible way of saving money, so that the administrative salaries may still be paid, and increased annually. It is always the really important people — the garbage collectors, the snowplow operators, the pothole fillers, the clerks directly serving the public, the librarians, the workers in the arenas — it is these who are laid off. Administrators are never laid off, not even when there is nothing left to administer.

Council needs to meet in camera, without any staff present. They need to search their souls to find out what is their real place in society, and what is their duty to the electorate.

Peter Weygang, Bobcaygeon

Speed bumps would slow people down

I wish to add my comments to Dan Dowdell’s observations and suggestions about speeding on Mary Street in the November issue letters.

Yes, Mary Street is pretty bad, but so is the Angeline Street speedway along with most Lindsay streets.

More stop signs would probably not help.

Speaking from my experience in Markham 20 years ago, I worked closely with the police department and the town. We set up radar speed signs with volunteers, logging licence numbers of cars going five to 10 km over the limit. The police sent out a warning letter and after two warnings a ticket was sent out.

After the trial period the town decided that speed bumps were the way to go except on roads travelled by ambulances and transit. Some neighbours were not happy, but most were. This is quite costly, but Markham has more money than Lindsay and it worked.

Reducing the speed limit to 40 km might make a little difference if it is strictly enforced and tickets issued, but I doubt it. There are those who will always break the law and those are the ones that should be gone after.

Eva Molnar, Lindsay

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UPFRONT

Parliament Hill excavation the topic at Lindsay Canadian Club event

Stephen Jarrett on-site at the excavations on Parliament Hill.

What lies under the seat of Canadian government?

The Lindsay Canadian Club is offering a unique opportunity to hear Stephen Jarrett, the lead archaeologist and project manager for Centrus, who will discuss his team’s work in excavating Parliament Hill.

Jarrett is an archaeologist with WSP Canada Inc. based in Ottawa. For the last three years he has managed the archaeological work in association with the Centre Block Rehabilitation Project. Through this work, there have been extensive discoveries related to the original Centre Block structure and the previous military occupation of Parliament Hill.

Jarrett holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies from Trent University along with a Master of Arts in Heritage Conservation from Carleton University.

Anyone interested can join the virtual event on Jan. 12, 2022, at 7 p.m. Visit canadianclub.ca to see the cost and to register.

Support needed for local homeless women

Local resident Kerri Murphy is seeking support from the Kawartha Lakes community in her efforts to reduce the feelings of isolation faced by women who are affected by homelessness this holiday season.

Murphy is the volunteer local co-ordinator for the Kawartha Lakes chapter of The Shoebox Project for Women, a national charitable organization that collects and distributes gift-filled shoeboxes to local women affected by homelessness.

Shoeboxes are valued at about $50 and the donations must fit within a standard-sized shoebox. It is requested that an encouraging note be included in each box. It is important that the top and bottom of the shoebox are wrapped separately to allow the contents to be inspected.

A complete list of recommended items to include and leave out is outlined at shoeboxproject.com.

Gift card donations of $25 and $50 for use at local restaurants, grocery/drug stores and local small businesses are also an option. Shoeboxes, encouraging notes and/or gift cards should be dropped off before Dec. 15 at Cathy

Donations must fit within a standard-sized shoebox.

Allan Ladieswear in Lindsay, Paradiso Boutique in Bobcaygeon or The Kawartha Store in Fenelon Falls.

Cheques addressed to The Shoebox Project for Women — City of Kawartha Lakes will also be accepted at any of the retail locations listed above.

Cash donations cannot be accepted.

This year, The Shoebox Project’s list of local recipient agencies has expanded to include Women’s Resources, A Place Called Home, Fourcast Addiction Services and Kawartha Lakes Food Source.

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Business UPFRONT

Keepin’ it Local }} Chambers of Commerce, BIAs team up for campaign

Downtown Fenelon Falls.

Area organizations are teaming up to encourage people to shop local by increasing the visibility of local businesses and celebrate their diversity and uniqueness. The Keepin’ it Local campaign also has a particular focus on the many outstanding local women-led or women-owned businesses.

Developed with funding through the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, Keepin’ It Local sees many local groups joining forces: the Fenelon Falls & District Chamber of Commerce is working with the Bobcaygeon & Area Chamber of Commerce, the Coboconk, Norland & Area Chamber of Commerce, the Haliburton BIA, the Haliburton Highlands Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Lindsay BIA and the Lindsay & District Chamber of Commerce.

The campaign includes its own landing page, video interviews with local business owners, photography and videography to showcase the opportunities in Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton County.

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Advocate publisher Roderick Benns, centre, accepts the award for MEDIA EXCELLENCE from sponsors Jason and Karissa Ward of Ward Legal at the Lindsay + District Chamber of Commerce’s Awards of Excellence. Photo: Rebecca Anne Bloom.

Advocate wins Media Excellence award for second year in a row

The Lindsay Advocate has won the Media Excellence award at the Lindsay + District Chamber of Commerce’s annual Awards of Excellence.

Nominations are judged by a panel outside of Kawartha Lakes, composed of chamber of commerce professionals across North America.

This is the fourth award for the Advocate in its four-year history. Last year the local, fully independent media company also won the Media Excellence award and the previous year it picked up New Business of the Year. It also won an Innovation award through the Kawartha Lakes Community Futures Development Corporation.

The Advocate’s award was sponsored by Ward Legal.

The awards’ presenting sponsor was Cogeco, which also recorded the event. These awards are presented annually by the LDCC, with support from multiple local business sponsors.

All residents, businesses and organizations within Kawartha Lakes and any LDCC members are eligible for nomination, but chamber membership is not required. The 2022 awards are now open for submissions.

For more information on the winners see page 23.

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The new year is almost here and with it comes new changes to waste and recycling in Kawartha Lakes. As we continue to work on decreasing our environmental footprint and look for new ways to extend the life of our landfills, the following program changes will come into effect for 2022:

Mattress Recycling:

As of January 1, mattresses will only be accepted at the Lindsay Landfill, or through curbside pick up. This will ensure all mattresses are recycled.

To date our mattress recycling program has diverted over 10,000 mattresses from ending up in our landfills.

Bulky Plastics:

As of January 1, bulky plastics will now be accepted at the Lindsay Landfill for recycling. This includes items such as plastic beverage crates (milk crates), plastic lawn furniture, clean plastic drums, totes, empty garbage/recycling bins and clean plastic buckets and pails.

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BENNS’ BELIEF RODERICK BENNS Publisher

At this moment

As I write this in mid-November the thermometer dips. Winter’s here, I realize, and the maple tree starts to shed its leaves outside my office window.

I despise winter.

Friday evening. I can hear the idiots racing their cars on Durham and Victoria streets, probably selfish 20-somethings who think the world revolves around them. Where are the police when this happens, I wonder?

Later in the week I can’t figure out why my wifi is so slow when I’m right on deadline with the Advocate. I spend way too much time with the internet provider on the phone, questioning the company’s commitment to customer service.

In another tech issue, I can’t remember my password for my Microsoft subscription. I don’t know — could it be it’s because it’s one of 10 million passwords I seem to need these days for everything? I click “forgot password” and come up with yet another letter-number combination that I’m sure, this time, will be different and memorable.

Mail’s here. Thanks, Scotiabank. Just love this thoughtful notice that property taxes are being increased. Do I not already pay enough?

Still in mid-November and the sun is brilliant this morning. I take a moment to look out the window and watch the latest round of leaves falling, snapped off by the frost in a glorious clutch of colours. How incredible this time of year is; how soon the holidays will be here to enjoy.

The latest Kawartha Lakes Police Service report lands in my email box.

They’ve caught someone for speed racing, not far from where I live.

Taking a walk in downtown Lindsay I see a group of people huddled on the library’s front steps so they can access the library’s free wifi. Much ridiculed on social media for doing this, I realize that, unlike me, these are people who have no internet at all.

While doing some online banking I think back to the time they alerted me when my card had been compromised. We recommend you change your password, Mr. Benns. We’ll refund these few charges that weren’t yours. We all hate passwords. But the digital landscape is only getting more complex.

Driving by on Lindsay Street, I see that A Place Called Home’s new homeless shelter is well on its way to being finished. Did I honestly get angry at a property tax bump? These people are lacking the most foundational aspect of life — a place to call their own.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves to practice gratitude, but also to share it with others. To see good fortune when there are bumps in the road. To see blessings when there are trials. At this moment, I feel gratitude for each one of you who are reading this, and I wish each of you a very happy Christmas.

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EDITORIAL

To be fully human The Academy Theatre is back. After more than 20 months, Lindsay’s grand old theatre is alive with the sound of music again, thanks to the lifting of pandemic-related capacity restraints, at least at the time of this writing.

For reasons no one understands — least of all the Conservative provincial government — baseball and hockey stadiums were opened ahead of smaller arts venues, which was absurd.

During the long, bumpy road of changes we were grateful as a community to have Globus Theatre for entertainment, despite all the hurdles it faced and all the changes that were thrust upon them — something artistic director Sarah Quick and artistic producer James Barrett handled with grace. Lindsay Little Theatre, too, tried to navigate the expectations of public health rules, staging at least one outdoor play.

But the Academy, with its larger venue size, could not justify opening with just 140 seats in a 540-seat theatre — the number it would have had to settle for when factoring in social distancing and capacity rules. That’s why the storied theatre sat still and quiet for so long, its voices muted both by public health concerns and an economic rationale.

When the theatre opened again in late November, though, there was a palpable sense of excitement in Lindsay’s downtown core.

The Olympia Restaurant owner, Nicki Dedes, said it best in our feature story in this issue when she referred to her Greek heritage.

“We come from a country where arts and culture are essential to being a full human.”

That’s what the Academy, Globus, Lindsay Little Theatre, Kawartha Art Gallery and so many other groups represent. The arts matter because they strengthen community bonds; they give us hope through self-reflection; they elevate our potential.

It feels like we’ve done our job for public health for so long. It’s time to go have dinner in a restaurant and attend a play, Christmas show or concert. It’s time to be fully, completely human again.

LETTER SPOTLIGHT

Why is the Bobcaygeon Library moving?

Once again here is someone absolutely dumbfounded that plans are still in place to move our wonderful old library to the service centre. Beside the point that I do not know of anyone who wants this to be done, the cost of such a move will be enormous.

Apparently, wheelchair access was one of the reasons for the move but surely there is someone who could come up with a plan to make our library more wheelchair-friendly.

The major discussions in The Lindsay Advocate in November were about how the city is in an unfavourable financial position. Here is an opportunity for council to make the sensibly democratic decision and shelve this plan to move our library, and in making this choice save a whole lot of money.

Caroline Currer, Bobcaygeon

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OPINION

Companies needed here that can scale jobs, particularly in digital sphere BRETT PROUD Brett Proud is a Kinmount-area based angel investor who also enjoys advising and mentoring local start up companies It used to be that municipal managers who are responsible for local economic growth focused on attracting businesses such as outsourced call centres, back when the number of jobs created was what managers were judged on, instead of the quality of jobs.

Startup incubators have certainly proven to help take great ideas to market and create jobs. As such, the extension of the Peterborough Innovation Cluster to Kawartha Lakes was a welcome sight. Yet the lack of further supporting factors will lead to middling results.

1. Encourage companies that

can create jobs There is a big difference in supporting lifestyle businesses (businesses that might employ one or two people) versus businesses that can scale. Jobs created by lifestyle businesses are important but to facilitate a long-lasting job growth engine, we need to continually support ideas with potential for growth from local entrepreneurs.

Jobs created by lifestyle businesses are important but to facilitate a long-lasting job growth engine, we need to continually support ideas with potential for growth from local entrepreneurs.

2. Provide the right type of capital

at the right time Getting a new business started is a risky period for investors. Investors expect to be rewarded in a way that aligns their future gains to the present risk they are

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taking. This is the right spot for equity funding — such as angel or seed capital. And while this funding is not going to come from the municipal government, it’s important that municipalities help to grow local angel networks.

However, when a startup is ready for real growth, there is a place for municipal-level funding through venture debt. It’s really a win-win. The startup founders are not diluted further from ownership of their business and the investment risk profile fits with municipal strategies.

3. Boost locally based technology skills The world changed so fast for local businesses during the pandemic. A physical storefront without a functioning online store is not sufficient anymore. All businesses, big or small, are now enabled by key technologies such as app software and the cloud. And it’s not just about the tech skills of putting up a website. It’s about the skills to build core systems for app development and for emerging tech such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. However, the Kawartha region has virtually a complete absence of local software development talent — talent that stays in the region and would enable new local companies to grow and scale.

4. Keep successful companies local How do we keep successful companies in the region?

There is little point in spending local money on companies that start up, succeed, but then leave the region, usually prior to the payoff of many new local jobs.

Addressing point three above will certainly help. But there needs to be a support framework for potential local bright stars that goes beyond early incubation. That awareness needs to get to the political level early on, so these companies are identified and support programs are put in place.

Enabled by key technologies, building and operating a global business can happen anywhere, whether Lindsay, Peterborough or Fenelon Falls. Supporting factors must be in place though to see more companies start up, grow, prosper and remain local to our region.

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CRAIG METCALF, GENERAL MANAGER The Academy Theatre. Photo: Sienna Frost.

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WILLIAM McGINN Writer-at-large

Alan Doyle is the kind of big-name act that still packs theatres all over the country.

But when Academy Theatre general manager, Craig Metcalf, noticed Doyle was touring through Ontario and had a date between Hamilton and Kingston free in late November, he went into action.

“We realized we really should have a grand reopening. And we should really have somebody popular — a headliner,” said Metcalf.

“I got in contact with his agent and made the deal for him to stop here on the way,” he recalled.

And just like that, the Nov. 23 show was booked.

It was the kind of successful move Metcalf knew the Academy had to make after more than 20 long months of no lights, no camera and certainly no action.

In the summer of 2020, with Ontario gripped by fear of the coronavirus, it was believed that 80 per cent of province’s performance venues would have to permanently shut down as a result of prolonged closures, the theatre manager said.

Even when restrictions loosened, in practice it wouldn’t have worked for the Academy to reopen earlier. Distancing requirements would have only allowed 140 seats to be available in the 540-seat theatre, meaning 50 per cent capacity was not really half-full at all.

“It didn’t make any financial sense to only allow 140 seats,” Metcalf said, given the cost of operating a fully open theatre, such as lights, staffing and utilities.

While the Academy is certainly a fixture in Lindsay and well known in Kawartha Lakes, it is also enmeshed in the local economy.

Erastus Burley, manager of The Pie Eyed Monk restaurant, says he certainly remembers busier afternoons and nights whenever there was a show at the theatre.

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“There’s absolutely a direct correlation between people that are looking to experience live theatre, with their need to make that an experience for the whole evening. Any time you have a collection of entertainment venues, you always have a collection of restaurants. You can see it at any major centre ERASTUS BURLEY anywhere in theworld,” Pie Eyed Monk Burley said.

Melissa McFarland, executive director of the Lindsay Downtown BIA, said the downtown “is incredibly happy to see the return of the Academy,” and added the theatre is responsible for “so much traffic to our local restaurants and shops.

The Academy saw both world wars. It was built so long ago, and theatres during wartimes were a place for people to escape the pressures and emotional challenges that war brings.

“The pandemic hit small businesses hard, but live arts venues were affected more severely and for so much longer than any other industry,” said McFarland. With the downtown being a heritage conservation district, McFarland said the history of the Academy “is vital to the story of our downtown community.”

Metcalf agreed. The theatre is very much a partner with the rest of the community, he noted; the people he has talked to during the pandemic told him they really missed it being open. He also said visitors from out of

town and tourists who attend Academy shows also use local accommodations and shop here, especially in the spring and fall.

The theatre stayed afloat while it was closed through grants and fundraisers, including the successful two-night Home Again fundraising concert held in the fall of 2020 at the Lindsay Drive-In. It was organized by local musician Darryl James, bass player for The Strumbellas, also known by the name of his solo project, Close Kicks, and along with his wife Robyn James, who were both connected to the theatre.

“We started seeing inspiration from Canadian singer Brett Kissel, who was doing a drive-in concert series,” Darryl James told the Advocate at the time. “Robyn came up with the idea of a fundraising initiative through the theatre at the drive-in because attendants would be safer in their cars, took it to the rest of the board, and they loved it.” The concert raised $40,000.

During the pandemic shutdown, a few renovations were also done to the theatre, such as on the floors, the back wall near the balcony and some patching on the ceiling.

Burley, at The Pie Eyed Monk, said it’s important to consider just how long the Academy has been around and what it represents.

“The Academy saw both world wars. It was built so long ago, and theatres during wartimes were a place for people to escape the pressures and emotional challenges that war brings.”

While the restaurant manager said COVID-19 isn’t the same, “We just went through a modern-day war against this virus. The theatre is a really important part of the emotional recovery that human beings need when they experience trauma, and it’s an opportunity to bring down what they call ‘the fourth wall,’ that suspension of disbelief, and to be lost in something that’s fantastical for a couple of hours, because life sometimes can be really challenging.”

Nicki Dedes, owner of The Olympia, a Lindsay institution when it comes to restaurants, is just down the road from the theatre. She said her family’s love for the theatre has been expressed in many ways over the years, both financially and culturally. Her mother and father both came to Canada from Greece.

“We come from a country where arts and culture are essential to being a full human. It’s bred into you.

Philosophy, art, music — it’s part of the everyday life.”

Her father, Chris Karkabasis, “being a forward-thinking

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guy, dove into supporting the local arts because they bring intangibles that enrich the whole community and brings an expansion of thinking to everybody from the little kids to the wise old elders,” said Dedes.

Karkabasis supported the Academy and the town’s art gallery, as well as paticipating in the creation of the recreation complex and the twin-pad arena. Dedes and her father both have sat on the theatre’s board.

Dedes and her brother, Louis Karkabasis, who operates Pane Vino both “support the theatre and donate and give whatever it is we’re asked of us and then some because it all comes back and it spins upward,” she said.

With the theatre closed for so long, she said that familiar cultural component of the Academy was missing and it “devastated the whole mindset for everybody.”

There was no usual pre-theatre dinner rush at The Olympia, and even when the restaurant was open, there was no need to make enough food and cocktails in advance.

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Burley said he sees the Academy reopening after the worst of COVID as just the start of bigger things. In Port Hope, where he lives part of the time, the Capitol Theatre, a venue he describes as “stunning,” is the big draw. The Capitol, which at 380 seats is smaller than the Academy, runs a full summer season, as was the case in Lindsay “about 20 years ago.”

“If you asked the restaurateurs (in Port Hope) ‘How does the summer season affect your business?’” said Burley, “every single person that sells a service or a good on the main street would tell you without the theatre, their business would probably be at least 50 per cent less.”

Burley says that’s the kind of environment he’d love to see for Lindsay, where professional summer theatre could spark more business activity in general. He said really great things happen in the fall and winter at the Academy Theatre, but it “tends to go a little quiet around June.”

Metcalf took on the role of general manager of the theatre in January 2020. So almost from the start his job has not gone according to plan.

“We’re all excited,” to be open again, he says.

“Nobody knew when this day was going to come but we all knew it would, so we’re excited to be ready, to provide opportunities for our local and regional residents to access entertainment options at the theatre. It’s been a long time coming.”

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The Kawartha Lakes Health Care Initiative, responsible for doctor recruitment for the city, said the outlook remains grim for residents looking for a family doctor.

Cindy Snider, recruitment officer for KLHCI, told city council recently that 3,500 adults and 300 children in Kawartha Lakes are without a primary care physician. With several family doctors with large practices expected to retire in 2022–23, the number of people looking for doctors could increase.

Bobcaygeon, Fenelon Falls, Woodville, Kinmount and Kirkfield all need one to two more family doctors, while Lindsay needs six to eight. In total, the city is short 18.5 family doctors before the looming retirements, not to mention KLCHI’s commitment to recruit physicians for the new wellness centre in Coboconk.

“The need for family physicians is growing right across Canada. New general practitioners want smaller practices to maintain a better work-life balance as most take on additional duties at local hospitals and long-term care homes,” Snider said.

“We will need to recruit two doctors to replace every physician retiring.”

Population growth occurring in the city is adding pressure to what is already a difficult recruitment undertaking.

Linda Curtin, treasurer for the KLHCI, said the goal is for all Kawartha Lakes residents to have access to a family doctor, creating a healthier environment for everyone. She also reminded council that the group is not only tasked with recruiting new doctors, but also with supporting and retaining the family doctors the city already has.

“COVID has made the recruitment process more challenging,” Snider said, noting that in the past, recruiters had success attracting medical students who were training at Ross Memorial Hospital. “There have been fewer medical students training in the area. A lot of the training has moved online.”

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That’s when he contacted Community Care City of Kawartha Lakes and spoke with Kerri Daley, program manager, Home Support Services, who not only started him with Meals on Wheels, “but made me aware of other volunteer opportunities within the agency.”

No stranger to giving his time, Grasby is also involved in the Income Tax Program (which helps people file their income taxes each year), volunteered with the Lifeline Program and served on the Fenelon Falls Advisory Council for four years. When asked why he participates he says simply, “Because it is a good thing to do, and I quite often get comments from the clients about how much they appreciate what we are doing as volunteers.”

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For myself, I make it a priority in my schedule because I know how important it is and how much the clients appreciate what we do.”

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The only route not receiving the green light was the one that would have allowed ATVs to travel through downtown Bobcaygeon. Numerous Bobcaygeon residents made deputations to council to express their concern over allowing ATVs in the community. Several also requested that discussions on the issue be suspended until results are in from the two-year pilot project that begins across the city next May.

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We asked eight Kawartha Lakes residents, aside from family, what are you thankful for as we get closer to Christmas?

Marsha Scanlan (Fenelon Falls) I am thankful for sobriety and to be enjoying the journey of life today.

Jeff Harris (Sturgeon Point) This is going to sound unusual, but I’m glad to be back to work.

I was getting bored, eating too much, and now that I have a contract with Laurentian University in the geology department, I feel like I have a new purpose.

Jay (Galway Township) I’m thankful to have a new baby girl on the way, the ability to enjoy the great outdoors, and a returning sense of normality.

Ric Christie (Sturgeon Lake) In the late 80s, at the end of my fourth year of teaching in Oshawa, I was told I would be surplus, but that a school “up north” would like to hire me. Since landing in the Kawarthas I could not have asked for a better place for my wife and I to raise our kids, or a better place to now retire from my career, so I am thankful for seemingly random events that lead us places.

Dana Burmeister (Fenelon Falls) I’m grateful I’ve been able to travel and experience new things, while being fortunate enough to have great friends and family to return home to. Besides that, I’m glad I have an adventurous spirit that allows new opportunities to come to me.

KJ Knox (Verulam Township) I’m thankful for my friends and family who inspire me and push me to reach my full potential.

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Mike Flannery (staying with friends in Fenelon Falls) After living in western Canada for 25 years, I am grateful for reuniting with my family and discovering my great uncle was the composer of “O Canada.”

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Kim Hutchinson (Lindsay) The last couple of years has taught me how grateful I am for people. It can be difficult to have faith in humanity sometimes, but the last two years have shown us that we really need each other. Of course, I am grateful for the people closest to me, but I’m also thankful for the people I don’t really know who keep our communities running — the people behind the tills, cleaning up messes, medical people, you get it. If this pandemic ever truly ends, I’ll be hugging a lot of people.

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ROSES The city’s parks workers, for keeping our allimportant public places clean, green and beautiful when we needed them most.

Kawartha Cycling Club. Even though its Kawartha Cycle Tour had to be organized and conducted virtually, the event still raised $45,000 for A Place Called Home.

The family that donated $250,000, and all donors to the continuing campaign to build The Summit Wellness Centre in Coboconk.

Our new medical officer of health, Dr. Natalie Bocking, for not only starting her job in the middle of a pandemic but also providing calm, kind guidance on all kinds of issues that affect public health.

The Grove Theatre for an inaugural season that featured innovative programming in a setting that Advocate Podcast host Denis Grignon described as “Greek amphitheatre meets the hobbits’ Shire.”

Kawartha Lakes councillors who make decisions on the facts and what’s best for the city as a whole.

Whoever started the rock snake along the Rotary Trail. A real morale raiser.

The library system for its collaborative children’s programming. Great Storywalks at Ken Reid, Settlers Village and Fleming College, among other places.

The Lindsay Ex. The 2021 edition wasn’t the same, but it was a welcome return to a much-loved tradition.

Environmental Action Bobcaygeon, Canopy Project Kawartha Lakes, Green Trails Alliance and other local environmental groups for leading the way, locally, during a global climate emergency.

Mayor Andy Letham, for his calm, common-sense approach to the debate over allowing ATVs on paved roads in local towns and villages.

Local theatres. From the Grove in Fenelon to Bobcaygeon’s Globus Theatre and the Lindsay Little Theatre, staff and volunteers switched plans, and switched them again ... and switched them again, all in the name of giving the rest of us the local entertainment we craved.

The cleaners. From hospitals to nursing homes to schools, you do the hard, but critical, work that many of us would rather not think about.

Youth sports leagues that gave kids a desperately needed outlet this summer.

MP Jamie Schmale’s moving, non-partisan poem reading at a Bobcaygeon event to mark Truth and Reconciliation Day. Unwrapped, a store that shows its commitment to helping the environment by offering free services such as recycling of hard-to-recycle items — everything from toothbrushes to snack wrappers.

Country Cupboard, for owning and managing the recycling bins at the Garnet Graham Beach in Fenelon Falls, and for giving away 100 trees (no purchase required) to further reduce the waste and carbon emissions of the community.

Merchants and residents in Lindsay and Fenelon Falls, who made it through the construction and now get to enjoy its benefits.

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THORNS The anti-vaxxers who picketed in front of the hospital – the same place that will care for them if they get ill.

The city, for being so late to the active transportation party. Millions spent on roads, so much attention to ATV links, and still no proper bicycle lanes.

Social media commenters who criticize others — sometimes viciously — but offer no constructive ideas or actual help that will make our community better.

People who harangue staff in stores and restaurants who are just doing their jobs at a difficult time.

Litterers. Especially egregious: pet-owners who stoop and scoop then leave behind the pastel-coloured bags, and those who’d rather foul a roadside with their large items than pay a nominal fee to have them disposed of properly at the landfill.

Kawartha Lakes councillors who made a snap decision to shutter the Ops arena rather than wait for staff to report on the smartest options for closure.

Whoever is overseeing construction on the Bobcaygeon swing bridge. Sure, unforeseen problems will always arise on a project that size, but when a May opening turned into a (tentative) reopening in December, it caused hassles for residents and visitors alike.

Inconsistent provincial rules on vaccine mandates. If restaurant patrons have to be fully vaxxed, why not the people handling the food? And why are there more residents than staff at some nursing homes who have both shots?

All the Lindsay intersections where the walk sign doesn’t come on in tandem with a green light. What possible reason could there be to require pedestrians to press a button to learn when it’s safe to walk? The result is people unintentionally endangering themselves and drivers by crossing when it’s too late, because the signal doesn’t change.

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When my mother was 96 she watched Al Gore’s second climate documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel. “Ginny,” she said, “I didn’t know things were so bad. What can I do?”

She didn’t drive, didn’t fly. Her main global warming contribution was cranking the heat a little high on her natural gas furnace. I was not about to tell her to buy a heat pump. Two years later, my feisty mom passed away and posthumously did something for the planet. My small inheritance paid for my first electric car — a 2019 Hyundai Kona.

Upside: It’s been two years this month since I last rolled into a gas station or paid for an oil change. There are no spark plugs, timing belt or muffler replacements in my future.

Ninety-five per cent of the time I charge my car at home, overnight or on weekends when electricity is cheapest. And cleanest: Right now, only 10 per cent of Ontario’s power comes from natural gas, and that only during peak demand.

Our last coal power station closed in 2014. The environmental benefits include cleaner air and less global heating.

Everything we buy has an environmental cost, including batteries for electric vehicles or EVs, but things are improving. Companies are working on a cobalt-free battery. And up to 95 per cent of the metals in lithium batteries is being reclaimed and sold to battery manufacturers by Canadian companies like Lithion and Li-Cycle. These days expectations are that an EV battery will outlast the body of the car.

Because a gas-powered version of the Kona is available it’s easy to determine gas and environmental cost savings. According to Natural Resources Canada’s fuel consumption tool, the cost of “fuelling” my electric vehicle is one-quarter of that for its gas-powered cousin, saving me about $1,500 annually. It’s like getting a rebate every year that I drive the car. And the environmental savings? About 3,200 kg of C02.

Downside: While operating costs are less, right now EVs are more expensive than their gas counterparts. Forecasters tell us those prices should be on par in about three years. In the meantime, EV buyers can receive a $5,000 federal rebate for a midrange set of wheels. My specialty home charger was also an upfront cost — about $2,000 installed.

Like the transition from horse and buggy to cars, moving from gas to electric vehicles has its growing pains. For one, we early adopters carefully watch our phone apps (or in my case, the car’s navigation screen) to find charging stations while away from home. More are being added all the time, and that helps. Canada has more than 6,000 charging stations, and this fall GM said it will install 4,000 public chargers across the country over the next year. There are only a handful in Kawartha Lakes, including one fast charger at the Rec Centre.

Thinking of an EV purchase? I highly recommend starting with a visit (either online or in person) to Plug ’n’ Drive in North York. It has models you can test drive, knowledgeable staff and there’s no sales pressure. It’s all about education.

Once most vehicles are electric, health care costs will drop due to cleaner air. And the noise pollution from gas or diesel engines? Gone — unless a manufacturer decides to add that revving sound.

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This is the kind of recipe that does not have specific quantities, so feel free to experiment.

Favourite Beets 1 1⁄2 tablespoons butter or more to taste 3 cups grated raw beets 1 sprig fresh thyme or dried to taste (add 1⁄4 teaspoon at a time until you are happy with the taste) Salt and pepper to taste A pinch of sugar if the beets you are using are big and old

Method

Brown the butter in a skillet that has a lid. Add beets, thyme, salt and pepper. Turn heat down to low and put lid on skillet. The slower this cooks, the richer it tastes. Let cook for about half an hour, checking occasionally to make sure it’s not burning.

Taste, adding more butter, salt and pepper if desired.

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FRIENDS & NEIGHBOURS Father Alvardo Adderley

}} From Bahamas to Fenelon Falls,

new Anglican priest loves small town life

When I visited St. James Anglican Church in Fenelon Falls on a warm Sunday morning, hoping to talk Father Alvardo Adderley, I was told it would be best to wait until after the session.

That’s because he’s also the priest at Christ Church in Coboconk and does those services first. He doesn’t usually have time to spare when he first arrives at St. James because everyone at the Coboconk church wants to keep talking with him. That’s the sort of sense of love and safety his presence brings.

Father Alvardo Adderley. Photo: William McGinn.

Brand new to Kawartha Lakes, Alvardo moved to Fenelon Falls, along with his wife Michelle and daughter Jordan Jordan, over the summer. It’s his first time back in Canada since an exchange program that brought him from the Bahamas, where he grew up, to the University of Toronto’s Wycliffe College for two semesters. He wasn’t captivated with Canada immediately. That’s because he first attended Codrington College Seminary in Barbados, where there were “just 16 of us training for

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the ordained ministry” and he was used to smaller numbers — not being among the 80,000 students at U of T. The position for a new Anglican priest in Fenelon Falls and Coboconk was first advertised online on the diocese of Toronto website; before that, the position was vacant for two years. Alvardo applied, met with the bishop and church wardens, and got the role(s).

During a recent service, Alvardo showed everyone a Froot Loops box. It was easy to answer the question when he asked us to identify what it was. He then opened it, and inside was a box of pasta and goodies you don’t usually see from Froot Loops boxes. He also told us not to tell his wife about the box. The meaning of opening it and finding pasta? God does not look at someone and dismiss, but rather looks inside and explores the soul, never dismissing and always paying attention.

While having lunch with Alvardo, I asked how he comes up with his ideas.

“Just as I’m sitting here with you, stuff just comes to me. I sat down one day and said, ‘You know something?

People within the Fenelon Falls area seem to love animals, considering the amount of people that walk their dogs on a daily basis. Let’s do a service for the animals.’

Halloween I said, ‘You know what? The church didn’t do anything last year. Let’s have a Halloween party.’ We had 17 families in that hall. And right now my mind is thinking on Christmas; what could we do? I find when you do what you love, it comes from a place of passion, and once it’s authentic, you can’t beat authenticity.”

Alvardo said he enjoys meeting and greeting people in Kawartha Lakes from all walks of life. He is a big fan of the Golden State Warriors, plus he is hoping to learn how to ski.

He especially enjoys talking to different people and appreciates the size of Fenelon Falls. He said he likes the smaller population of 2,500, allowing him to recognize and greet people all the time. “I can easily walk into town and hail Randy and Grr8 Finds, I can hail Carolyn at Bank of Montreal and hail Sarah in Subway.”

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Santa’s story in Kawartha Lakes

IAN McKECHNIE Writer-at-large

scholars received presents, one can imagine the exThe rituals have scarcely changed over the years. Famcitement and turmoil. Santa Claus proved himself an ilies bundled up in scarves and mittens make their way old professional, and was well up to the mark.” Other downtown to watch a parade in which the most distinparishioners who played Santa Claus over the years guished participant brings up the rear, serenaded by the included Carl Scott and Dan McQuarrie; the Rev. strains of festive music. A few weeks later, these same famOrville Locke, who served as minister from 1960 ilies may stroll into a shopping mall where this same jovial through 1978, also donned the Santa suit for many a character sits amid a whimsical winter wonderland, waiting Christmas party. to welcome children onto his knee for photos.

Santa Claus, as this personage is known, has long been a fixture of the December holiday season. But who is Santa? Who was Santa?

For folklorists and historians, that question can be answered by going all the way back to a fourth century Greek bishop named Nicholas, who earned a reputation for his generosity. Stories about St. Nicholas circulated throughout Europe in the centuries that followed and were brought to North America by Dutch and English settlers. Contemporary images of Santa date to the 19th century, and the figure most of us envision when we think of Santa Claus owes much to American artist Haddon Sundblom, whose depiction of the bearded gift-giver was used to Stewart Stainton as Santa Claus. with granddaughter, Ana, on his lap. advertise Coca-Cola products in the Photo courtesy of Martha Stainton.

1930s.

That answers the question about Santa’s origins.

Schools, too, received annual visits from Santa But who was Santa in this community?

Claus. In 1910, Hartley-area students waited with batA character named Curly MacMillan took on the role ed breath during that year’s Christmas concert as a at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Lindsay during the succession of “telegrams” arrived from Santa announcholiday season of 1895, when the Sunday school organized ing his impending arrival. As the evening wrapped up, a Christmas tea and concert. When Santa put in his apbells were heard outside the schoolhouse followed pearance, said the Canadian Post in its reportage of the by a loud knocking at the door, at which point Santa occasion, “the scene of gaiety and happiness that followed Claus made a grand entrance. (was) indescribable, but when it was known that some 300 “After greeting the children and telling of his

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journey he proceeded with the task of distributing the presents,” wrote the Hartley correspondent in the Dec. 29, 1910, issue of the Watchman-Warder.

“Some (children) desired to go to see his reindeer across in the shed,” reports the unnamed correspondent, “but on their arrival found to their dismay that (they) had gone.”

Quite apart from these visits to churches and schools, Santa’s most prominent public appearance in the community has been during the annual Lindsay Santa Claus parade. Paul Skipworth played the part for 27 years. For many years, the Lindsay Chamber of Commerce arranged for Santa to pay a visit to the Ross Memorial Hospital following the parade, where he would distribute gifts to patients young and old.

“I remember seeing one little baby of about three years old who was really sick,” recalls Skipworth. “After I was all through, he sat on my lap and pulled on my beard!” Skipworth’s wife made his Santa suit, which for years endured the rain or snow so typical of Santa Claus parades.

Sharing Santa’s Lindsay-based duties with Paul Skipworth was the late Stewart Stainton (1927-2021). While he wasn’t in the parade, Stainton’s Santa Claus brought smiles to the faces of many children and adults for half a century. “He did it faithfully every year,” remembers his daughter, Martha Stainton.

What began as a means of entertaining colleagues at a Fenelon Falls Secondary School staff party evolved into annual visits to local homes and classrooms.

“He would get calls from famSharing Santa’s ilies, and some nights he would be Lindsay-based duties out for three hours,” Martha recalls. with Paul Skipworth “Everyone was just so happy to see him.” (Stainton was once recruited was the late Stewart to be a mall Santa, Martha observes, Stainton (1927-2021). but didn’t find that role to be as perWhile he wasn’t in the sonal or interactive.) “When he decided to retire, in 2018, he wanted parade, Stainton’s to pass on his legacy,” Martha says.

Santa Claus brought A personal support worker at Adesmiles to the faces of laide Place, where Stainton lived for the last decade of his life, took up many children and the reins and portrays Santa at the adults for half a century retirement home to this day.

Though “a visit from St. Nicholas” — to quote the original title of ’Twas The Night Before Christmas — has warmed the hearts of many people over the years, Santa Claus has not always manifested himself in person. Started in 1911 by Allan Gillies, a local newspaperman, and long spearheaded by Thomas H. Stinson, M.P., the Santa Claus Stocking Fund brightened many a family’s Christmas morning with a hamper assembled and delivered by volunteers. Although the Santa Claus Stocking Fund wrapped up operations in 2019, the spirit of Santa Claus continues to show itself in the good works carried on by other charitable agencies in Kawartha Lakes. From a fourth century bishop to 21st century volunteers, Santa Claus will continue to remind us that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.”

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Facts have no place in the blame game

The other day I spent a couple of hours reading some recent federal Conservative party press releases and I am excited to say that I have since gained some valuable life coping skills.

For example, after stubbing my toe on a dog bone in my hallway, I instantly screamed out “bleeping Trudeau” because everything is our prime minister’s fault. It certainly wasn’t my dog’s fault, or mine, for that matter. It felt great to have someone to blame and it didn’t require me to help fix the problem, or do anything, for that matter. Later that week, when I saw the first dusting of snow, releasing a sarcastic “Thanks Trudeau!” felt, well, great. Lake effect, schmake effect! I know where that snow really came from.

And don’t get me started on the price of gas. At almost $1.50 a litre, that 8.84 cent carbon tax clearly makes this all Justin Trudeau’s fault. Never mind that commodity prices are set at the world level and influenced by any number of geopolitical and economic factors. And the fact that the Ontario fuel tax is 14.7 cents a litre (not counting the province’s 8 per cent portion of the HST) is irrelevant when you use this technique.

You see, what makes this such a great coping mechanism is that you needn’t bother yourself with pesky facts at all. And complex issues with many factors are magically solved by simply assigning blame. Actually, nothing is really solved, because that’s not how the blame game works, but you get the idea.

But what if you are using this technique and someone challenges you with a fact, or even worse, science? Well, that’s when you have to double down and get all Pierre Poilievre on them. You have to call them biased and question their motivations and then bring the conversation back to the real culprit.

Actually, I am expecting to blame Trudeau for quite a few things this Christmas season. See, I doubt I’ve ever had a holiday season go perfectly to plan. Whether it’s forgetting a gift or burning the gravy for the tofurkey, there’s always something that goes off the rails. I used to internalize this stuff and occasionally feel bad or even inept. But no more! Blaming my prime minister for everything is the gift that keeps giving.

Now, here’s hoping you are better at this Christmas thing than I am and you won’t need to blame our beloved leader at all. And I truly hope that this Christmas, however you celebrate it, is a time of joy and laughter for you and yours. But should you not get the exact gift you wanted or if you buy the wrong size or colour of a gift you are giving, don’t worry about it. You know who to blame.

And from my family to yours, Merry Christmas.

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