Opinion

Overspending by our city council and our city administration is a disaster for taxpayers, but it's not the problem. It's the symptom of the problem.

It is now April and we are still talking about the "Jody Wilson-Raybould Affair" as it has come to be known. Late last week more details, including an audio recording, were released.

Ontario's first legal cannabis shops are finally here. One challenge they'll face is Canada's nationwide product shortage. That's despite repeated federal government assurances of ample supplies. Cannabis shortages certainly seem to exist.

I have to admit I am only beginning to understand the concept of forgiveness. It is noticeable, however, that it is a common thread in the lives of the people whom I most deeply admire.

Asking for help is a tremendous first step. For me, I didn't know I had a problem until I tried to stop. I did not know addiction was a chronic, relapsing, remitting disease.

A mere five months after our civic election and already residents are up in arms about an issue that didn't even come up during the campaign or even during the recent budget approval process.

The snow on my driveway has nearly melted and, as is traditional, I have backed into the snowbank and gotten stuck more than once.

We now come to the long promised column on corruption in the Catholic Church.

Whether it is the biblical record of divine revelations, or the stories of lives transformed by these biblical records, I want to state emphatically that my life has been changed by a combination of these two different levels of the printed page.

The notion of Canadians being extremely polite has been around for decades.