Misplaced priorities
Council made it clear last week that County roads, a few loads of gravel and rural road sweeping are more important than making sure its residents have food in their bellies. During last week’s budget deliberations, the Food Security Working Group (FSWG) put forward an ask of $60,000 to be used to help fight food […]
Please don’t run Mr. Chong
The Honourable Michael D. Chong, M.P. House of Commons, Ottawa Dear Mr. Chong It must have given you some satisfaction to see your Reform Act legislation employed by the Conservative caucus to swiftly and permanently dispatch Erin O’Toole to the graveyard inhabited by Stockwell Day and Andrew Scheer. Without your legislation triggering a vote at […]
Who’s my Ginger Peachy?
So many times I have often wondered, in print, how one month manages to pass by so quickly. I didn’t feel that way about January 2022. January was just one long string of challenges, one after the other. I’d nicely get over some disaster or upset and another would take its place. I’m not complaining […]
Mr. Young’s Ultimatum
Neil Young is at it again— stirring up trouble with his music to defend a cause he holds dear, He is less than fondly remembered by those in Alberta who felt the sting of his on-the-scene opposition to the tar sands. Mr. Young has now taken on Spotify the world’s biggest podcasting service. He has […]
Downsizing, Schmownsizing
Last week I had a lovely “visit” with a good friend. One of the things we discussed was how we’d decided to spend some of our Pandemic Moments cleaning house. Yep! Purging. Downsizing. Becoming minimalists. Call it whatever you want to call it. We talked about our abundance of stuff. For some reason we’d been […]
Part of the Sales Force
That was quite a full agenda Wellington councillor Mike Harper laid out for us in last week’s paper. Fourteen hundred housing units are going to be developed in the village over the next 10 years. Our water treatment facility is going to be upgraded this year. The County-owned affordable housing corporation is building up to […]
Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah
I woke up on Monday morning, last week, and thought about a woman who was my mentor, and friend, way back in my Big Pharma Days in Toronto. As I slurped through my first coffee of the morning, I thought about my first day in that office. I was pretty excited about my first real, […]
Groundhog Day
It was like Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day at the County Council meeting last Tuesday. Brace yourself for yet another debate about the size and shape of Council. Council received a report and heard a presentation from a consultant, Strategy Corp manager Aidan Grove-White, on the seven priorities it had set for itself in 2020. The […]
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda
So, here’s the deal. I don’t know how long we’ll be isolated/ locked-down/restricted with the COVID-19 pandemic, and all of its variants. What I do know is when the pandemic is done most of us will wonder why we didn’t take advantage of our “down” time to learn some new tricks. I know you know […]
Protecting the Greek Alphabet
Constantine Karamelis has had enough. Acting interim secretary-treasurer of the Society for the Preservation of the Integrity of the Greek Alphabet (SPIGA), he is “just fed up to here” with the wanton misuse of his beloved alphabet. And he launched into quite a tirade when he spoke with us recently. In particular, he is upset […]