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Spring burning season in the country clears off grass but its enough to get you all fired up

April 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

COLUMN — It’s always about this time of year when we drive through our smoky neighbourhood and pass neighbours standing over their burn piles with shovels and [Continue]

F-bomb doesn’t always blow up political fortunes, as Pierre, Joe and Justin have proven

April 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

COLUMN — Justin Trudeau dropped an F-bomb in public, and we are supposed to be offended. In truth, some people are, but others just yawn. The degree of outrage often has as [Continue]

A night on Victoria Street when good people pitched in to clean up somebody else’s mess

April 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

COLUMN — Wednesday night about 7 p.m., somebody went on a tear down Victoria Street. A garbage can at the corner of Fourth Avenue was emptied, leaving a gross assortment of [Continue]

The Way I See It – The magic of rain and leaves

April 11, 2014 // 2 Comments

COLUMN — Daniela Ginta writes Fridays for The Armchair Mayor News. My dad knew how to tell whether the day would be a rainy one or not. He would choose when to sow seeds in [Continue]

Spring means no rest till the tilling’s done

April 7, 2014 // 1 Comment

(COLUMN) — Dan and Jody Spark write every week for The Armchair Mayor News about life on their small acreage./ “Spring came with blustering winds and torn clouds of [Continue]

Meet your hair apparent — in politics these days it’s what’s on top that really counts

April 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

SLIGHTLY SKEWED (COLUMN) — News item: North Korea watchers are debunking reports that president Kim Jong Un has ordered his countrymen to adopt his distinctive hairstyle. [Continue]