ROTHENBURGER – Announcing the 2023 Armchair Mayor Bad News Awards
IT’S AWARDS SEASON. We’ve already had the People’s Choice Awards, the Hollywood Film Awards, and the New York Film Critics awards. Coming up are the Golden Globes, [Continue]
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ROTHENBURGER – Frootloops Mayor Jack Hammer sues for Christmas peace
FROOTLOOPS COUNCIL reluctantly gathers for its annual general Christmas meeting. Councillors aren’t sure what to expect as Mayor Jack Hammer takes his chair, flips on his [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Got the Christmas blues? I’ve got good news and bad news
WHEN YOU ADD IT all up, there’s good reason to be depressed this Christmas. When so much bad is going on all around us, the “Merry” in Merry Christmas, the [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Do we give to charity at Christmas for the wrong reasons?
‘TIS THE SEASON for giving. And giving. Charities focus heavily on Christmas, making more money in the couple of months leading up to it than at any other time of year. We [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Three headstones by the river, and a rediscovery of ancestors
RELATIVES SHOW UP in the darndest places at the darndest times. Three of mine did it this week. Their headstones are side by side in a hayfield off Dairy Road. Massive bank [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Eby housing strategy pushes us back to the era of little boxes
THE MARCH TO TICKY TACKY continues apace. David Eby’s NDP government is determined to run roughshod over the rights of cities to plan how they’ll grow. Maybe Pete [Continue]
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