Selected Writing

There is a growing trend within the Ontario government to concentrate power. It started in 1995, waned for a while in the 2000s, and since 2018 has ramped up efforts to eliminate other authorities. Premier […]

This is not an issue unique to one rural community; rather, it is common to many rural communities across the country — a place to hang out. Having raised four children successfully to adulthood, this […]

Last week’s federal budget should have been the primary focus of Members of Parliament in Ottawa. Instead, the budget was only one of three rings of the circus on Parliament Hill. Two of those rings […]

Too often, people are quick to point out problems but not offer any solutions. Clearly, there is a big problem with Canada Post. The national mail service is on track to lose another billion dollars […]

People who are in the wrong, and know they are in the wrong, hate having it pointed out to them. To take that one step further, a bully who knows they are doing wrong hates […]

Ontario’s education system has a lot of problems. Most of those problems can be attributed to restrictive funding formulas, chronic underfunding of programs, and having four publicly funded systems that compete against each other on […]

I never had the privilege of being taught in school by Wendy Gibb, but I had the honour of working with her for nearly 10 years. When I restarted my original career vocation of print […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is scrapping photo radar. Well, good riddance! I’m glad all the serious problems in our province have been solved, that the premier can now devote his time to trivial issues like […]

Readers can file this column under the category of curmudgeonly late 40-something-year-old complaints, but I’ve let this go too long without saying – when did customers no longer matter to businesses? A little over a […]