Perspectives

I suppose it is a product of my upbringing, my fifty years in the workforce, and perhaps just being a little out of touch, but I was surprised to hear that an arbitrator had awarded North Bay Police Services an incentive pay plan in their last contra

The recent testimony at the Gomery inquiry into the sponsorship scandal has fired up the opposition parties and the media but there is little sign of the public outrage that should be building across Canada.

Two April Fools jokes have moved from farce to fantasy and are now slipping into the realm of well, maybe . . . That Mike Harris would ever want to be Mayor of North Bay does stretch the limits of credibility, but who knows.

The Fur Harvesters are holding their annual meeting later this week according to the note under the picture of a lady in a sable coat in the local printed press.

Dear Mr Ditherman: We hope you will forgive our colleagues in The Soo for their impatience in asking for a reply within five weeks regarding their hospital. Perhaps they have not grasped all the intricacies of this building of hospitals in the north.

I was recently on holiday in the southern States, enjoying their warmer weather and hospitality when I saw a bulletin board sign in front of a church that took me aback.

It is that time of year in Northern Ontario when the warming spring sunshine signals an end to the outdoor rinks.

After years of trying to have our northern voice heard in Queen’s Park, I am beginning to realize that North Bay is viewed as little more than a colony in the snow.

I was standing in line at the express checkout the other day wondering why so many adults could not count to twelve when a clerk waved me over to a cash register that she had just opened.

I stopped to watch a group of people picking strawberries the other day and was intrigued by the speed at which these people were moving. They appeared to be Hispanic, but whether they were local people or migrant workers, I could not tell.