Articles by Bill McQuarrie

McQUARRIE – What walking the talk on the needles issue really means

July 3, 2018 // 4 Comments

BEFORE WRITING this week’s column, I asked the mayor along with our eight City councillors if they could provide some perspective on a rather sensitive and fractious issue [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Where’s Jagmeet Singh in the controversy over G7?

June 12, 2018 // 1 Comment

AS A RESULT of the Trump debacle at last weekend’s G7 meeting, I have a number of questions and concerns and the first one is a bit like the “Where’s Waldo” game. [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Charlotte Whitton would not have been pleased with ‘Run’ forum

June 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

I’M GOING TO TAKE ON a subject this week that, for an opinion writer, is fraught with peril and affords an even higher degree of risk when said writer is male, white [Continue]

McQUARRIE – City should correct mistake, buy back old railway station

May 22, 2018 // 3 Comments

WHAT BUILDING did the City sell to the private sector for $1 that every summer sees more than a 100,000 high-end visitors from around the world? Need another hint? It is one [Continue]

McQUARRIE – They’ve got us over a barrel – of oil, that is

May 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

HAVE YOU EVER wondered how to get the attention of gas retailers such as, Petro Can, Chevron or others? I have and if coffee shop conversations are any indicator, so too have [Continue]

McQUARRIE – We should be able to agree: fossil fuels are running out

May 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

I CRINGE with almost every conversation and social media post about the Kinder Morgan pipeline as inevitably someone, thinking they are quite witty and original, will say [Continue]