Perspectives

Insurance giant, Allstate has fired a test shot across the bow of the insurance industry by dropping coverage for former clients in the Gulf States. Those are the States that are frequently hit by hurricanes.

One of the Tai Chi concepts that the Master left us was that of ‘Up down same time’.

When I read about our mayor heading out across the province to garner support for a change in formula that the Dalton Gang uses for funding cities, I went back to a column I wrote here three years ago about the City State.

The people in the State of Florida know how to treat their visitors. Tourism is big business in the Sunshine State and the people in the industry take it very seriously.

It may be time to give up my coffee companions. I am not referring to Fred, who only wants to talk about his arthritic knee and potential prostate problem, nor Jack who is only happy ranting about Stephen Harper, Brian Mulroney and Mike Harris.

Last week we saw another example of how far the United States has strayed from Teddy Roosevelt’s comment, “Talk softly, but carry a big stick”, a saying of West African origin.

I should probably bite my tongue or at least slap my fingers with a wet noodle, but it is too hard not to comment on the City pulling the plug on the Wind Study.

One would only have to ask the local cross-country skiers, the Snowmobilers or the tourist camp operators who had hoped for some ice fishing revenue if they thought maybe, just maybe there was some truth to the global warming controversy.

My father was born on January 3, 1907 in the little Hamlet of Magnetewan. One hundred years seems to be a milepost, one of those periods of time that we use to measure humankind’s visit to this planet.

My wife almost had me convinced that I was simply getting more crotchety with age, but I think I am simply getting tired of some people trying to take advantage of me. Take the green bananas for instance.