Editorial

Budget time. This is when the people we elected to municipal council in the fall prove we made the right choice – or not.

When it comes to crimes committed by groups of people too young to have their names published, intelligence seems inversely related to the number of people involved.

Another year, another Freedom Convoy – it appears one of the top stories from 2022 is making a Groundhog Day-style reappearance. Maybe.

If you have decided to delete “Let It Snow” and “Dreaming of a White Christmas” from your list of favourite holiday tunes, you probably spent Christmas at home, trying not to think about the plans for the first family gathering since COVID – or rather, the celebration that should have been, had Moth

The start of a new year is traditionally a time for sweeping out the old and welcoming in the new, when we resolve to do better and be better, and make positive changes.

A space alien visiting Earth this time of year would probably be wondering what happened to the celebration pictured on those Currier and Ives greeting cards.

As the holiday season swings into high gear, it seems odd to be thinking about such issues as domestic violence, mental illness and substance abuse.

The numbers speak volumes – there are a lot more people looking for housing than there are homes.

In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, what we have happening right now feels like “déjà vu all over again” – only with a difference.

It has often been said that no one wins a strike. Union workers never make up for the pay they lose when out on the picket line, management cannot do business, and both sides lose good working relationships and even friendships. Then there is the collateral damage.

Ontario parents have once again found themselves scrambling to make plans for their kids, who have only recently returned to normal classrooms after two years of COVID disruptions.

It is extremely difficult to think in terms of winners and losers when it comes to the recent municipal election.

“From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord deliver us!” – old Scottish prayer

The resignation of top people with Hockey Canada came as the culmination of an ongoing scandal about payoffs to victims of sexual assault.

Sometimes a story appears in the press that takes an unpopular stand, or paints a person, organization or business in an unflattering light. Sometimes information is revealed on the front page or 6 p.m. news that someone finds embarrassing, annoying or possibly incriminating.