Opinion

New employment culture driving down country's productivity

Well, the train has left the tracks again at our wonderful Public Library. I’m referring, of course, to the latest decision by Peter Bailey and the Library Board to forgo overdue fines on Children’s and Youth materials.

What would you do if you won $50 million in the lottery? This was a favourite question to pose on family road trips. My response inevitably included purchasing parcels of land to serve as nature reserves or wildlife corridors.

I’m a political nerd of many decades. I ran a mock election in my Grade 4 social studies class. Election campaigns are my playoffs and election night is my Super Bowl.

Over the past weeks and months, I have seen a lot of commentary about the renaming of the Grandin (now The Gardens) neighbourhood. Lots of my fellow neighbours have expressed sadness and frustration over the change.

Is it because some people in the neighbourhood feel the name is so ingrained in their identity? I ask these people, how many of you actually knew who Grandin was? If you didn’t care before, you shouldn’t care now.

I am amazed at people bemoaning the loss of the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) immediately following the elimination of Bishop Grandin In my view, the impact of the HBC on the indigenous peoples of our region was significantly greater than that of Bishop G