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1 week ago | 
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley
For Peterborough voters who value tenacity in life and in politics, Liberal candidate Emma Harrison came through in spades April 1. We had an interview time booked at the campaign headquarters on King Street but with the chaos caused by the ice storm and the fact that Harrison lives in Selwyn Township, I doubted it would happen. So I drove by the office on King Street at 9 a.m. to confirm. There were four staff and volunteers on hand.
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2 weeks ago | 
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley
With the troubling example of the United States of America declining before our very eyes, we see the global trend toward weakening democracy. Right wing governments, headed by “strong men,” are being put into office by electorates with slender knowledge of the basic characteristics of a democratic society, too little knowledge of their own unique civics and too little appetite for defending them. “What has become of civics?” parents and teachers ask sadly. The number of democracies shrinks.
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1 month ago | 
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley
I’ve always enjoyed being among politically aware and involved people. There’s something altruistic about them. They care about society, and I see that fact, even when I disagree about a personality they favour or a policy for bettering the human condition they endorse. They are not self-involved. They think as citizens, not consumers. I wish there were many more of them. It’s so easy in Canada to get access to the political parties, join them and give as much time and energy to them as one wishes.
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1 month ago | 
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley
Although I was never disillusioned by the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as many other Canadians seemed to have become by early 2025, I watched his resignation in January and then the political gates churned up by one Donald Trump very keenly.
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1 month ago | 
mykawartha.com | Rosemary Ganley
Although I was never disillusioned by the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as many other Canadians seemed to have become by early 2025, I watched his resignation in January and then the political gates churned up by one Donald Trump very keenly.
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2 months ago | 
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley
We are battered on every side by the lunatic Republican party and its American president. Now, I must rummage through the clippings from the past four months and look at Canada. Just as an aside, our best TV journalist is Newfoundlander David Cochrane on CBC News Network at 5 p.m.Sources matter. When obscenely rich men own companies in the news business, we have to be very careful.
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2 months ago | 
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley
For a bracing good conversation with a progressive, intelligent and pleasant candidate for office, I’d suggest meeting up with Adam Hopkins at some opportunity before Election Day, Feb. 27. He is the Liberal candidate for Peterborough-Kawartha, working to defeat PC Dave Smith. People aren’t happy with premier Doug Ford calling this provincial election 18 months before the law requires.
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2 months ago | 
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley
Taking a breather from the unrelenting Trumpish news, as witness the Cabinet of the U.S., plainly inferior people, I am concentrating on Peterborough people and happenings, which are mostly good, of course. On the cataract front, you have been kind to ask. Yes, indeed, I am a candidate for removal, both eyes, a few weeks apart, day surgery at PRHC. The concerning news is that they are booking appointments for a year’s time. Such a wait will take nerves of steel.
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2 months ago | 
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley
I just signed a thank you card to Justin Trudeau, made some cheese straws, and am thankful that soon I see a doctor about cataract surgery. A fair day thus far; no newly dreadful news from the U.S. bully, which, for three weeks, has been unnerving. A few American politicians hate and insult us. That has produced much anxiety in Canada, which everyone absorbs. What should we do? Neutralize Trumpism, as much as we can.
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Jan 25, 2025 | 
thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley
With my white hair, I usually wear a lot of black in contrast. But Monday, Jan. 20, it was all black, and had a point; a sign of mourning as our southern neighbour, the United States of America, launched into a dark period. All the darker since it is self-chosen, brought on by misled voters, conned by a slick, self-aggrandizing huckster who convinced 70 million of them that their country was broken and only he could fix it.
