Editorials

EDITORIAL – Remembering a friend, and knowing AIDS hasn’t gone away

December 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. TODAY IS World AIDS Day. For many, maybe most, the day will pass as usual without even realizing it has been set aside to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Pipeline decision is imperfect, but let’s get on with it

November 30, 2016 // 1 Comment

(Kinder Morgan photo) THE PIPELINE DECISION is so typically Canadian, isn’t it? Enbridge’s Northern Gateway is a no go and Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain twinning gets [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Metric is a failure; let’s go back to the good old Imperial system

November 29, 2016 // 7 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE STILL LIVE in two solitudes in this country. I don’t mean the French-English thing. I mean the Imperial-Metric thing. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Mamma Mia! proves what a success a PAC could have been

November 28, 2016 // 6 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S A REALLY big show, this Mamma Mia! musical running at the Sagebrush Theatre for the next couple of weeks. At [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Whatever happened to saying nice things about dead people?

November 27, 2016 // 20 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IN CANADA, we have a quaint tradition — when people die, we say nice things about them. In the U.S., apparently, they [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Some people just have no sense of community pride

November 25, 2016 // 5 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SOME PEOPLE have no community pride whatsoever. In face, they possess no social conscience, no sense of responsibility to [Continue]