Opinion

Having spent my career working and owning and supporting family-run businesses, I get the benefits, but I also see the challenges.

You’d be surprised how often we’d check in at a campground only to find the price has changed or they didn’t have our “verbal” booking. If they refuse to send you the email confirmation - big red flag - book somewhere else.

Based on the polls, national and regional, neither the federal Conservatives or the NDP, or their leaders, are significant threats to form government. Put another way, the likely worst outcome is another minority government and the prospect of a return to majority rule is very real.

I was asked recently why I keep advocating for people to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. After all, “the vaccine hasn’t been approved,” the questioner pointed out. An interesting choice of semantics that.

Libraries have remained one safe place for the discussion, or at least reading, of a broad range of ideas in our polarized society.