Category: Editorials

It’s the people who are getting fatter, not their pocketbooks. Despite growing research, including last week’s Canadian Health Measures Survey from Statistics Canada, that indicates that Canadians are likely more overweight than ever before, living a healthy lifestyle just keeps getting more expensive.

There’s a good reason why youngsters get a pet fish before a puppy. If you can care for a fish, maybe one day you’ll get a puppy. The cheap aquatic alternative teaches responsibility without much financial risk. If city council’s pet fish were OC Transpo, it would be bloated, floating and dead. And it would still want a dog named Tunnel.

Lansdowne Park’s renewal may  soon give Ottawa what some have called a “jewel on the Rideau.” But scratching beneath the surface of this local gem quickly reveals another reality.

Canada’s youth are at war with a genius of a disease.