Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – The Armchair Mayor Awards for news misses of 2018

December 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE YEAR HAS GONE BY quickly, hasn’t it? Hard to believe it’s time for the 2018 Armchair Mayor Awards for news and news makers that made headlines but not necessarily in [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Frootloops council tackles crisis of snowless Christmas

December 22, 2018 // 4 Comments

THERE IS NO JOY in Frootloops. With only a few days to go before Christmas, the council gathers to deal with a crisis — no snow. As the newbies mill around trying to find [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – There will never be another like Angelo Iacobucci

December 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

ANGELO IACOBUCCI was good column fodder. I once wrote about watching in amazement as he sat in City council chambers during a meeting and ate French fries and clipped his toe [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – When will healthcare system wake up to the sleep crisis?

December 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

“YOU HAVE INSOMNIA,” the doctor told me as she scrolled through screen after screen of charts, graphs, notations and squiggly lines, the results of my night at the sleep [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Charge for overnight parking downtown? What’s next?

December 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

Not all ideas amount to anything, but without them nothing ever gets done THERE ARE HOPEFUL SIGNS from City council chambers. Rookies are sometimes afflicted by a bad case of [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – News media need a new business model, not handouts

November 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE NEWS MEDIA are about to get help from the taxpayer — it’s help they neither deserve nor need. Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau this week announced $600 million [Continue]