Articles by Bill McQuarrie

McQUARRIE – Bemused and befuddled in the Twilight Zone of local politics

February 13, 2018 // 1 Comment

POLITICIANS! There are weeks when the only thing you can do is give your head a shake and wonder in bemused befuddlement, if we have indeed entered the Twilight Zone of [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Teachers took wrong course on high school art vandalism

February 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

OKAY CLASS, settle down now and let’s get on with our lesson on permissive vandalism and how the rule of law and common sense can be suspended for those promoting social [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Creative thinking a good way to get shut down by City council

January 30, 2018 // 3 Comments

THINGS GOT a bit testy at City Hall last Tuesday when Councillor Cavers introduced his motion asking staff to review and have a look at best practices when it came to snow [Continue]

McQUARRIE – More Father Knows Best – The back door to legislating morality

January 23, 2018 // 1 Comment

LAST WEEK’S column on the perils of pot and how Father Knows Best, drew a number of responses but one in particular caught my eye. In this case, the reader felt City [Continue]

McQUARRIE – When it comes to city business bylaws, father knows best

January 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

HAVE YOU EVER wondered if our local government is stuck in the late 1950s sitcom world of Father Knows Best? A world more familiar to their parents and grandparents and a [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Using minimum wage poverty as a tool for business success

January 9, 2018 // 1 Comment

WITH ONTARIO having increased the minimum wage to $14 and Alberta making similar changes, I thought it an appropriate time to write of what for some, is a belief in and [Continue]