Perspectives

The news that the City of Sudbury is heading towards a ‘Green Box’ collection system will soon reach our Lord Mayor and his minions at City Hall.

By now, baseball fans will have picked up on the not-so-subtle name change of the team from Tampa. Formerly known as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the team that slugs it out in the Florida heat is now called the ‘Rays’.

Sometimes we can get caught up in the events of history by seemingly innocent small things.

I was watching the Weather Channel the other day (you can see how busy I am) and saw the report of a place in Ohio getting 12 inches of rain within a 24 hour period. That is about 30 cm as we measure things north of the border.

Recently I was talking to an acquaintance who formerly worked as an administrator for a large hospital and he related a story about life in the hospital Boardroom.

This column is not an opportunity for you to join a club that supports the Income Tax Act, although that might be a very elitist organization. Nor is it a fan club for those who love to hate the Income Tax Act.

George Foreman just became my favourite heavy-weight boxer. This is not because of his famous Rumble in the Jungle with Muhammad Ali nor his durability as a fighter.

While in Florida I had the opportunity to see a show by the Calgary Fiddlers, a group of high school students who as part of their study, tour the world with their fiddles.

With the debate now underway about increasing the commercial fishing on Lake Nipissing, I am reminded of a story a friend told me about some land negotiations he attended.

I was sitting in the front seat, sipping on a Tim Horton’s and reading Maclean’s magazine when we pulled up to the US border crossing at Niagara Falls.