Editorials

EDITORIAL – Coun. Singh deserves praise for speaking out on immigrants

February 7, 2017 // 4 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT SHOULDN’T be necessary, in this day and age, for people to stand up and defend refugees and immigrants, to proclaim [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Free speech isn’t the monopoly of the righteous

February 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FREE SPEECH can’t be just for some; it has to be for all. That includes both left and right — conservatives, liberals, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Despite everything, the Americans are always there for us

February 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Note: Since we’re all pretty focused on the Americans right now, let’s reprise an Armchair Mayor column from February 2014, as we were feeling pretty good about [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Trudeau was right to cancel plans for electoral changes

February 2, 2017 // 5 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. YOU’D THINK, by the way the Opposition is talking, that an election promise had never been broken before Wednesday. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The free ride is over; media outlets need tax dollars

February 1, 2017 // 2 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I’M SO VERY tired of listening to the Blame the Media game day after day. How easy it is to lay a guilt trip on [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The Americans: ‘I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around’

January 31, 2017 // 3 Comments

Bill McQuarrie’s “Dear America” column today is reminiscent of one written more than 40 years ago with a very different perspective. In June 1973, the U.S. [Continue]