The Voice of North Grenville
The Voice of North Grenville
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Reaching by direct mail 8,500 homes and businesses in North Grenville
ngtimes.bsky.social October 2, 2025
Vol. 13 No. 37
The Times, Canada Post, and the Future
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by David Shanahan
Talk about “The Times they are a’changing”! In the last two weeks, issues around Canada Post, the CUPW, and the Canadian Government have put the North Grenville Times into a serious quandary. The initial union decision not to deliver “Neighbourhood Mail”, meaning unaddressed items such as flyers and, significantly, newspapers. The Times is delivered
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to every home in NG under that category, and so there’s been no delivery for the past two weeks. The move came too late for us to find alternate ways of getting the paper out, and so there was no issue for September 18. For this issue, we’ve reduced the number of copies printed and placed them in stores, restaurants and other public locations, hoping readers find them. But now that the Canadian Government has
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announced the likely end of all door-to-door deliveries, this present challenge looks like becoming permanent, and so we have to find new ways of delivering the Times to readers across the region. What the long-term impact of this will be is impossible to know at present, and serious thought needs to be given to whether a print version of the Times remains a viable option. It is our intention to keep it in print, but that will depend on
how the next weeks turn out. One likely option is for us to invest in boxes, such as other papers have used in the past, placing them in various places around North Grenville. For now, however, we have a wonderful group of people bringing the Times to you via a limited door-to-door service, as well as dropping copies off at the B&H Grocery store, the box at Burritt’s Rapids, Canadian Tire, the Independent grocery store, Brewed Awakening on CR 43, Foodland in Merrickville, Kemptville Bowling Lanes, local restaurants and gas stations, seniors’ residences and nursing homes, the Municipal Centre, and other locations as they become available. We at the Times really appreciate all the help the community has given us in this difficult time, and will do our best to continue to provide residents with local news and information in this our 20th year publishing newsletters and newspapers in North Grenville. Yes, indeed, the Times they are a’changing.
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