Editorials

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.

The name Fiona will long be remembered whenever storm clouds gather, the wind rises, and creatures great and small head for high ground. At least in the eastern part of this country, Fiona was the storm that finally convinced climate change deniers that something real and dangerous is going on, and

Election signs have sprouted up, gracing lawns and public spaces like so many bright, autumn flowers.

The entire country reeled as news about the tragedy in Saskatchewan emerged – 10 dead, to become 12 with the deaths of both suspects, and 18 injured, in a series of stabbings.

A number of years ago, a youth choir was about to perform at an event in the area, and one of the songs was “God Save the Queen.”

The province has a plan to open up more beds in our hospitals – force the “bed blockers” out and into nursing homes, against their will when necessary.

Kids are heading back to school for what will hopefully be the first somewhat normal school year since COVID-19 hit.

How to fix health care was the big news from the province in the wake of this year’s Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference.

Where are the candidates?

Ontario’s premier made a statement recently that had a lot of people scratching their heads – very carefully, to avoid injury that might necessitate a trip to the emergency room.

After six days of apologies by the leader of the Roman Catholic Church for the horrendous abuses perpetrated on Indigenous children and families through the residential school system in Canada, come the questions.

There is no more effective way to throw fear into the hearts of the general public than to mention the word “epidemic.”