I haven’t talked to anyone who wasn’t surprised at Denis Walsh’s decision not to run for another term. In hindsight, maybe the signs were there. When I [Continue]
Three things in particular stick with me from Sept. 11, 2001. Foremost, of course, was the shock — waking up and hearing on the radio that the World Trade Centre in New [Continue]
By MEL ROTHENBURGER/ The Armchair Mayor And so, a new season begins. Yes, the unofficial end of summer is succeeded by the unofficial start to the civic election campaign. [Continue]
Whenever I’m on vacation I get a chance to view the media — especially this newspaper — from a different perspective. Namely, that of the consumer rather than the [Continue]
By MEL ROTHENBURGER/ The Armchair Mayor I read with interest this week that the Amalgamated Transit Union in Gatineau wants the transit service there to ban passengers from [Continue]
By MEL ROTHENBURGER/ The Armchair Mayor “You got me into this,” Henry Pejril joked at a Western Canada Summer Games do this week. Pejril, who’s president of the Games, [Continue]