Results may vary
Numbers don’t lie. They can, however, tell a story. Some of these stories are riveting, some scary, others uplifting. This story is a mostly a good one—albeit with some disappointing bits. Most importantly this story casts a light where shadows have claimed domain for too long. The County Treasurer’s report on the financial condition of […]
Getting to know you
The one sure thing that can be said of the election on Monday is that Canadians reward the folks that hang around. They get used to them. Then they elect them. Stephen Harper is Prime Minister with his first majority government this morning because most folks have gotten to know him over these past seven […]
Saving Canada
“We live in the best country in the world.” This surely is the most common observation by folks who have travelled or spent time outside of this country. Perhaps you’ve even said it yourself. Whether folks venture into the desperate poverty of Delhi or the relative opulence of Palm Beach, when we return home we […]
Not standing still
This week’s paper celebrates (perhaps a little early) the approach of our 20th year with some exciting changes to our format and a renewed sense of purpose. Working with Wellington’s own Don Heathcote, we have freshened up the design to be more consistent, clean and readable. We have also shortened our masthead to state simply […]
Just a game
Hockey is life. This is what I often tell my kids as we leave the rink, usually when they haven’t given a particularly inspiring effort. This sermon is always given on the car ride home—because I suspect for some my “hockey is life” speech to 10 year olds just sounds nuts. I don’t mean that […]
What it’s all about
Just so we are clear—the amount of County taxpayer money at stake in the economic development department before eight councillors hacked at it was just under one per cent of the total amount the County will spend this year. One per cent. By slashing 20 per cent of this single budget—these eight councillors, in this […]
Our business
You are at home one day and you peer out your front window. Across the street a grown man is striking a boy repeatedly. You don’t know who they are. You’ve never seen either of them before. They are strangers, but clearly the smaller, weaker one is taking a severe beating from the larger, stronger […]
Chipping away at transparency
The Wellington Times turns 20 next month. It also marks seven years since my wife Kathleen and I have owned and operated this newspaper in this wonderful community. One of the most rewarding and truly unexpected aspects of being part of such a public enterprise is the encouragement we get daily and weekly from you, […]
A good story
A long, long dreary winter is at last beginning to recede from the County. Those of us left behind to tend the place in these darker months, prefer, I think, a short sharp burst of winter—snow for Christmas, breath-sucking cold in January. Acouple of times sliding down Macaulay Mountain earning a face full of snow, […]
Portrait of a madman
Just how far will he go? Since Dalton McGuinty stared into a television camera in a leaders’ debate in 2003 and promised he would rid the province of coalfired electricity generation by 2007, there has been no barrier, no regulation, no safeguard strong enough or important enough to slow Dalton McGuinty from his futile obsession […]