By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca SO, THIS WEEK Canada finalized an agreement with the United States and manufacturer Lockheed Martin to purchase 88 F-35 [Continue]
By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca THE OTHER DAY, I had to lock up the brakes to avoid a young person who jaywalked, with their attention buried in their phone. [Continue]
By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca AS WE HAVE SEEN discussed on the news and across social media since the death of Queen Elisabeth II, talk of Canada’s [Continue]
By DAVID JOHNSON ArmchairMayor.ca Contributor THIS IS A STORY of how I stopped smoking cigarettes. First the disclaimer. I used vaping products. I do not in any way endorse [Continue]
By DAVID JOHNSON ArmchairMayor.ca Contributor SO, AS OF JAN. 31, B.C. residents can possess specific amounts of certain controlled drugs. Let’s be absolutely clear — [Continue]
By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca POPE FRANCIS plans to visit Canada this summer following Canadian Indigenous leaders’ visit to the Vatican last month. [Continue]
By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca THERE’S A KNOCK on the door this afternoon. My kindly Italian heritage neighbour, holding the continuously quivering [Continue]
LAST WEEK there was an Armchair Mayor/ CFJC column, regarding LED street lighting. This week, there was a response letter to that column from a Softlights.org organization. [Continue]
WITH THE UPCOMING municipal election in October, we find ourselves at the beginning of positional jockeying for council incumbents looking for re-election, and new Council [Continue]
THE MOMENT OF THE WRITING of this column, was at the end of day one of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The air campaign was in full swing and there are reports of [Continue]
WHEREAS I APPRECIATE the first three paragraphs of Coun. Dennis Walsh’s guest column here at the Armchair Mayor, dated Feb. 8, and I definitely echo the kudo’s directed [Continue]
By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca FOUR YEARS AGO, at the conclusion of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, I wrote a column about a kind of a ‘changing of [Continue]
SOOO, HERE WE GO … crowds of trucks jamming into Ottawa and packing Parliament Hill on Saturday and Sunday to protest the federal Liberal government, vaccine mandates and [Continue]
By DAVID JOHNSON Contributor, ArmchairMayor.ca DURING THIS PAST Halloween, I stumbled across a written line somewhere that floored me, and from there I began a deep dive [Continue]