Opinion

Kids have been playing on residential streets since ancient times. For them its the best surface in the whole wide world to play on.

A Slice of Life

The discovery by a University of Guelph researcher that hungry and malnourished aboriginal children and adults across Canada were the subject of nutritional experiments during the 1940s and 1950s is shocking, horrifying and hardly surprising.

City council has made a major regressive, short sighted and disappointing decision in voting to reintroduce downtown parking meters. I feel sorry for the innovative downtown merchants who are trying to attract patrons to the downtown core.

Relativity

When I was a young kid we used to watch a lot of black and white shows on the TV. Probably because we only had a black and white TV. My parents loved movies from when they were younger, the '40s and '50s.

I think it is past time the city did something about the parking situation at 10th Ave and Alward St. That would be a great place to put parking meters. It is impossible to see when trying to come off Alward onto 10th.

Decriminalizing marijuana is the equivalent of opening the barn door wider after the horses all ran away to let out the last horse that decided to stay behind.

Dyer Straits

Good to hear that story on the core review and what the mayor had to say about it in defense. Of course her position would be to defend the process, because it was largely initiated by her.