Perspectives

Over the past few years, the members of the Society have met on Tuesday and Thursday mornings to strike a few balls, tell a few lies and recently, blend their voices in song.

The debate over bottled water continues to boil. City after city across Canada is banning the sale of bottled water in municipal buildings. School boards across the country are studying the issue.

Jack Layton’s promise (if he is elected Prime Minister) to go after the high credit card charges that the financial folks charge us struck a chord with me.

Robert Service would have many hearty laughs at the number of promises that politicians will make on both sides of the 49th parallel in the next month or two.

With a year remaining on his self-imposed 4-year term, does anyone other than Steve Harper and his cronies think we need an election in Canada? One of the few good ideas that Harper brought to his term in office was setting fixed election dates with

No doubt, you have been waiting anxiously for the successful conclusion to search for the elusive Higgs boson. Ever since Higgs speculated on the existence of the boson back in 1964, I have been waiting for the proof of its existence.

A radio news item about an Ottawa area “Conservationalist” being outraged with the Municipality of Killarney and the Ontario Government ( Parks) for allowing black bears at the Killarney and Parks dump brought a chuckle this morning.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper may have been conspicuous by his absence at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Beijing but his much-touted stand on human rights and freedom needs closer inspection.

It was a simple plan. Pack up enough clothes, the paddle gear, computer and camera and drive to Nova Scotia for the Dartmouth Breast Cancer Survivor Dragonboat races.

What we wanted to do was maintain the asphalt roadway of “X” Street, especially in front of Councillor “Y”s home.