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Ashleigh Weedon opens Festival Gallery's Poetry in the Gallery season

At the Blyth Centre for the Arts on Saturday, rural futurist and writer Ashleigh Weedon ushered in the third season of Poetry in the Gallery with a powerful reading that ran the full gamut of human emotion...

Blyth Lions Club marks 80th anniversary, cuts ribbon on new sports pad

On a clear, albeit rather cool and windy Saturday, the Blyth Lions Club at once marked its 80th anniversary and officially opened, alongside its partner in the project, the Blyth Firefighters' Association, a new sports pad at Blyth Lions Park, the site...

Seventh annual Dungannon Pro Rodeo impresses crowds, continues to grow

Since its inception in 2017, the Dungannon Pro Rodeo (DPR) has been a big draw for the village; each year, thousands of visitors pile into the Dungannon Fairgrounds to enjoy the two-day exhibition of traditional western sports.

The 2025 Salute to the Blyth Festival

The Citizen presents its annual Salute to the Blyth Festival for the Festival's 51st season, on stage from June to September.

The evolution of protest in Canada - From the Cluttered Desk with Keith Roulston

After watching Drew Hayden Taylor's play Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion at the Blyth Festival, and then, at home, rereading former Lieutenant Governor James Bartleman's autobiography Raisin Wine...

The number of the day - Shawn's Sense with Shawn Loughlin

There is a situation here at The Citizen that still, to this day, causes me to wake up in the night, covered in a cold sweat, shouting incoherently and begging the gods of community journalism to take me now. It is, of course, the suggested Gypsy Lane...

Our house... in the middle of a barn - The Chaff with Scott Stephenson

Deliberations around Ontario's housing predicament have revealed a surprising truth: sometimes the solutions lie not in building more walls but in tearing down the invisible ones that separate us from the land we live on.

Editorials - July 18, 2025

Little by little, Don't look back in anger, Roll with it

The female emigrant’s Guide and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping by Catherine Parr Traill - Glimpses of the Past with Karen Webster

Born near London, England, one of five daughters and one son of the Greenlands docksmaster on the Thames, Catherine Strictland grew up in the countryside area of East Anglia and was educated at home.