Armchair Mayor

WE TALK A GOOD GAME when it comes to freedom of speech. We salute the concept but what we really mean is, “I defend your right to speak your mind, as long as you agree with [Continue]

Let’s clear up a few things that make us different from our friends down south, and make us who we are IT’S IMPOSSIBLE to talk about Canada and Canada Day this year [Continue]

We often think of provincial or federal politics as being a step up from serving on a local council, but think again IS BEING AN MLA really a step up from civic politics? [Continue]

THERE WAS A GUY who lived in our home town when I was growing up who made the local paper every year. He was a minor celebrity, a bit of a folk hero, even, because he killed [Continue]

HEADLINES ARE a good way of finding out if we want to read a news story. But the news story itself is filtered by the writer based on his or her idea of which facts are worth [Continue]