Editorials

EDITORIAL – Calm heads needed in row over wildfire evacuation order

July 13, 2017 // 6 Comments

An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF AN RCMP officer knocked on your door and told you to evacuate your home due to an approaching wildfire, what would you do? [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Communications lesson has been learned from 2003 firestorm

July 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

RIGHT ABOUT NOW, frustration and impatience should be setting in among some of the unfortunate people who have been displaced from their homes by the wildfires. Tempers will [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The small things of life count for wildfire evacuees

July 10, 2017 // 1 Comment

An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ONE CAN’T fully appreciate the enormity of the job involved in looking after wildfire evacuees until you drill down to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Omar Khadr’s settlement a case of defending human rights

July 7, 2017 // 7 Comments

An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THOSE EXPRESSING outrage at the $10.5-million settlement between the federal government and Omar Khadr should look more [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Confrontation raises questions about freedom of speech

July 6, 2017 // 3 Comments

An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IN WEDNESDAY’S editorial, I referred to the interruption of a Canada Day protest in Halifax by five men identifying [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Proud Boys’ interruption of protest was a dumbass move

July 5, 2017 // 2 Comments

An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HERE WE go again with another controversy over statues. On Canada Day, five off-duty members of the armed forces walked up to [Continue]