Editorials

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.

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?