Archive 1997-2016
By Crystal Kingwell and John Besley
Somebody needs to learn to share. The federal government’s attitude toward the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame’s possible move to Ottawa borders on childish.
Both tourism and sporting authorities support moving the Hall to the government-owned Conference Centre downtown.
By John Besley and Crystal Kingwell
From our perspective, there’s no problem with making sure mental patients who need drugs to control dangerous behavior take their medication. In the interest of the greater good, it is an acceptable limit on an individual’s rights.
Kudos to Kris Schimmel. If not for him, yet another position in Ottawa’s upcoming elections would have gone uncontested.
Thanks to Schimmel’s last-minute entry into the race to oppose incumbent Elisabeth Arnold, the citizens of Somerset ward will have a chance to actually elect their city councillor on Nov. 10.
Canadians spend a lot of time ridiculing Americans for how little they know about our country. Almost everyone has heard the story of the Yankee who believes we huddle in igloos in a nation of ice and snow.
We laugh at stories like that, wondering how anyone could possibly be so stupid about a country so close to their own. We self-righteously scoff at Americans for their ignorance and take comfort in our own superiority.