Archive 1997-2016
Your eyes snap open to the shrill beeping of your alarm clock. You crawl out of bed, shower, dress, and grab a piece of toast on your way out the door. You hope for a quick commute, but construction downtown has traffic backed up. You curse and wish you’d never had to leave the house.
Something horrible is happening to schools in Ottawa. Something so awful that communities are crying out for mercy, begging their counsellors and mayors to make it stop!
Brace yourselves, it’s going to be shocking . . . Kids are getting new computers! Kids are getting new gyms!
“Some people play bingo, some people play volley ball or swim. I go to committee meetings.”
This is how Sally Rutherford modestly explains her continuing commitment to the Somerset West community.
While many people spend their free time on other activities, Rutherford chooses to donate hers to the task of neighborhood improvement.
Spring is supposed to be the time that turns young men’s fancy to marriage. It’s also having an affect on one young, reform-minded party.
When Jean Charest announced he would leave the federal Tories to fight Lucien Bouchard in Quebec, Reformers could barely hide their glee. They have been actively campaigning to merge the two parties since the last election. And with the Tory leader gone, that campaign has intensified.