Perspectives

The City of Punta Gorda, Florida is having a problem with disaster relief. Last fall, no less than three hurricanes plowed through the area, leaving a clean-up mess that is still taking its toll on the local citizens. And on the local government.

NOTAMs, or Notices to Airmen, are those important advisories that pilots check each day before flying to ensure safe flight.

In this so-called Information Age there is a plethora information readily at hand. The internet has added to the millions of words written and spoken daily through the print, video and audio media.

I never was one to enjoy hard-water fishing. First, you cannot cast or troll a lure around the lake.

The Digital Age has brought us to a new level of multi-tasking that supposedly improves how we act and react in the social milieu of the present age.

More than a week into 2005 and no resolutions broken! In the annual attempt to clean up my lifestyle, improve my health and do much better at any given number of things, I made a list of resolutions.

The current discussions in parliament on same-sex marriage rights and in Ontario, Sharia Law, vis à vis the Charter of Rights is charting a new and challenging course for liberal and fair-minded Canadians.

I reviewed my 2004 predictions last week and got a mixed report card. Being only somewhat the wiser, my tongue firmly placed in the other cheek, here I go for 2005. I predicted property taxes would come in at 7.

In his first year in office review, Mayor Fedeli listed among council’s many accomplishments the securing of a $50,000 grant to study the feasibility of wind power electricity generation for North Bay.

Prime Minister Paul Martin has generously offered George Bush to send Canadian officials to Iraq to assist in monitoring the January election. Whoa Paul, let us think about this for a minute.