COLUMN: Of jay walkers and cyclists, oh my
Life is always an education, and not everything sent your way is accurate. In fact, it’s getting worse.
And it’s not always on social media,...
COLUMN: Read your damned emails
As a newspaper editor, I don’t like to be hoodwinked. On May 29, four councillors held a press conference in regard to information on...
COLUMN: Efforts only ramp up drivers’ nerves
OK, mark this one down as an “Old-man-yells-at-clouds” kind of column. I’m 61 now and I want to complain about … traffic calming.
Does any...
COLUMN: It’s really his world, not ours
We have three people living in our household…yet we had five stockings for Christmas.
I expect we are far from alone in this situation.
Our daughter...
COLUMN: Let’s do our part on local roadways
Be better.
That’s my message to local drivers and municipal staff tasked with clearing our streets and sidewalks, and their overseers.
I’ll start with us drivers....
COLUMN: The snow-covered road less travelled?
According to multi-national Samsara, we’ve got the most dangerous road in Ontario when it comes to driving in the winter.
Erieau Road.
I’m on that stretch...
COLUMN: Near miss in the roundabout
As most readers know, I’m not a fan of roundabouts, especially on highways. I was against the one the municipality opted to create on...
COLUMN: Photo radar vs. speed bumps
Talk about full circle. When photo radar cameras came out in the mid-1990s on major Ontario highways under the Bob Rae government, I hated...
COLUMN: Brisket falls short
When you screw up and the result of that mistake is incredibly tender meat, that’s OK, right?
Well, we smoked a brisket recently and I...
COLUMN: No brisket, no problem
I failed recently; failed to bring home a brisket.
However, the fallback worked out just fine.
I went to Lenover’s after seeing they had brisket on...
