There’s something to be said about playing at home come playoff time: relaxing in your own bed, not worrying about having “bus legs,” and relaxing in the friendly confines of your own facilities before the game begins. It’s a great luxury to have, and it certainly will be something the […]
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Valentine’s Day is still two weeks away but already the thoughts of doing something special for my wife are bouncing around in my head. As a romantic holiday, Valentine’s Day often includes gifts of roses, chocolates, and perfume. La Place Rendez-Vous and La Flambée each have created their own special […]
In the last couple of months, my northern caucus colleagues and I have been raising concerns about the standards being used to maintain our highways in the winter. As you may or may not be aware, snowplowing is a privatized service. In the past, the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) owned, […]
On the afternoon of Jan. 19, 2012, my life and the lives of Dr. Jon Fistler’s children were forever changed and we were thrown to the wolves with unanswered questions, regret, and unspeakable grief at the misunderstanding that followed his suicide. I have discovered that I hate the word suicide. […]
The Harper Conservatives have made a mess of our Employment Insurance system. While tens of thousands of Canadians struggle with losing their incomes, only to have access to their EI benefits delayed, rejected, or expire, the Conservatives appear content to let them suffer by eliminating thousands of Service Canada jobs […]
?It’s not often you see a high school goalie mask with something on it other than the regular solid colour design, as everyone tends to keep everything clean and without some sort of crazy paint scheme you tend to see in the professional ranks. So what is on the back […]
My brother was kidding me Sunday as we were putting up some gyproc in my home. “You must really be excited when you work on a room that is square,” he noted. I think he was referring to my helping him on his cottage, where all the walls were nice […]
This is one of those weeks when I have nothing better to write about other than some of the things that I can’t deny. I can’t deny myself the Dairy Milk chocolate bar I found in a flat storage container under my bed. I swear I’m getting rid of it […]
Since being elected in October, I’ve tried to cover many topics both in my weekly columns and at Queen’s Park. There are many issues of concern in our region that need to be addressed by the provincial government, but one of the most urgent is re-examining how health care is […]
After enjoying the holiday season, most of us have returned to the working world for the new year and are getting back into the swing of things. But imagine for a moment that you had another week of holidays this coming week. How much would that affect not only your […]
Our calendar has been in effect for thousands of years, right? Wrong! The calendar we use today only has been in use for about 250 years. Almost all civilizations of ancient times used “natural” divisions of time. There are three of them. The first is the day—the time it takes […]
I chuckled to myself as I looked at the pictures on my son’s Facebook page from a year ago. He had taken pictures of the dump of snow in our driveway during the Christmas break. He stands more than six feet tall and the snowbank was above his head. I […]
