I read somewhere “Grief is a journey that never completely ends. The scenery changes, and the terrain becomes easier, but there is no point of arrival.” But that’s okay. We’re good with that.
A long-suffering Leafs fan dares to dream
when there wasn’t other kids to play with, I was out there alone, lost in my imagination where I was Davy Keon or Frank Mahovlich or Tim Horton scoring the overtime goal against the Canadiens to win the cup. And the crowd went wild.
Some thoughts on this municipal election day
Isn’t it great though, to have the privilege of weighing our options and having our voice heard at the ballot box. And knowing that it will be easy to vote, it will be fair, and whatever the results they will be accepted by all. Americans should be so lucky.
My Battle with Hyundai - The Final Chapter
It shouldn’t take a social media campaign that causes a public relations nightmare to persuade a company to do the right thing.
The Sad Saga of my Sonata Sunroof, Part 2
It was like I opened the floodgates. I had no idea there are so many people out there each with their own story of how they were treated poorly by Hyundai
Fredericton Council comes through for homeless, but would bolder have been better?
how’s this for a Tale of Two Cities. While our city council was meeting Friday evening to revisit that $900 thousand for homelessness relief here, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation was announcing $3.4 million for affordable housing in Moncton.
Some further thoughts on that City Motel vote by Fredericton city council
if you want to vote them out, fill your boots, that’s your right, but let’s put a cap on the hateful rhetoric. Just because they didn’t vote to our liking doesn’t make them bad people.
Fredericton Council votes NO to housing homeless
The most frustrating thing about Fredericton City Council’s vote not to cover the shortfall that would have turned the City Motel into housing for the homeless, is that the rationale the councillors who voted against it used was so damned lame.
City Motel would be a real game changer for homelessness in Fredericton
It’s the right thing to do morally and economically. We’re talking over $1M in taxpayer savings in one year alone (based on 40 people housed) But what we are really talking about is changing lives.
I heard the black dog growling
From a Guest Blog - Last month, I heard the Black Dog growling. The stress brought on by the pandemic, combined with the January cold, and the diminished sunlight, got to me.
CUPE - the Hotel California of organized labour
it is hard to see the benefits CUPE is providing these particular members, and obviously they aren’t seeing it either. Unions are like a marriage. Great as a concept, but it can only work if both sides are into it. It’s kind of pathetic when one side goes out of its way to stop the other from trying to better itself.
Part 2 - the Higgs government going into the New Year
As a single citizen of New Brunswick, and a white one at that, I can only speak for myself, but I think it is more than just the First Nations folks who want an inquiry.
Some random thoughts on the Higgs gov't going into 2021
Higgs has made mainly the right moves, with some glaring exceptions, but mainly solid intentions such as promising serious health care reform and promising tough but very needed municipal reform.
The dollars and sense of our Performing Arts Centre
So, when the performing arts centre is built and operating for, let’s say a decade, the return to the federal and provincial governments will be about $11 Million each. This of course continues to increase every year thereafter. With this side of the ledger considered, the expenditure doesn’t seem so bad, does it?
About that Matthew Raymond verdict
There’s a constant in communications – emotion beats facts ten times out of ten. In other words, if you are arguing facts and the other side is arguing emotion, you will not win. There’s that. Then there is social media, which, for too many people means no measure of restraint or decency.
Say it ain't so Bobby. Say it ain't so
I have talked to friends whose experience is the same as mine. They lost valued relationships that did matter for the same reason Orr has now lost the respect of many. They found, as I did, that people we thought we knew well turned out to not share our same values at all, a reality stripped bare because of Trump.
More random thoughts about next week's election
He just looked at me and said, “You don’t know much about politics do you?” BAM!
Election thoughts with one week to go
A related point to keep in mind for those, and I sense there are many, that agree Higgs with a minority is preferable to Higgs with a majority, and that is that if we had proportional representation rather than our antiquated first-past-the-post system, the very system the vast majority of democracies did away with many years ago, minority governments would then be the norm not the exception.
Rolling the dice on a pandemic election
Here’s where it depends on whose version of events you want to believe. Nuances aside, it appears the government’s ask was a bit of overreach that perhaps Higgs figured other parties would have to agree with because they feared an election.