What is it about a Personal Water Craft that give its rider an enhanced sense of entitlement? We constantly deal with it at the canoe club; idiots who scream up and down the harbour on those nefarious machines, oblivious to the huge signs that scream out in big red letters: No Wake; maximum speed 7 […]
Tag: General nonsense
Nottawa residents shafted by Elections Ontario
So this week, the crack news team at the Enterprise-Bulletin has been following up on this business of Nottawa residents having to traverse to Ravenna in order to exercise their democratic right. All for the sake of an inch, it seems. As we write in our editorial in today’s e-dish-un: According to the standards, an […]
I’m so bored with blogging, I can’t even be bothered to come up with a title…
OK, so it’s not so much that blogging is, like, so 2008, but that I’ve been tremendously busy between work, paddling, and working out. But now that paddling is pretty much wrapped for the season, I might be able to focus a little more on this endeavour. Not that there hasn’t been topics. For instance, […]
The facepalm moment…
So Monday night’s council meeting was 50 minutes, which wouldn’t be so bad had it not been for the fact that agenda-wise, it should only have been about 10. The topic that seemed to draw so much angst, it seems, was the motion on the table to hire an architect/consultant for the Central Park project; […]
Mid-August: time for an update…
Holy Jeez, this summer is just whipping by. One moment is mid-July and 35 degrees, and the next is an early August morning and I’m freezing my butt off on the back of a dragon boat… Anyhoo, I thought an update was in order. E-B writer extraordinaire Kristen Smith has been diligent in her efforts […]
Housekeeping…
Yes, it does seem I’ve fallen off the blogging map, doesn’t it? No fear, though, as I’m sure once council gets back into full force, and we’re thrown into the parry and thrust of the provincial election, I’ll get back to bemusing you on a regular basis. Of course, if you’d pay attention to my […]
A little bit too much information…
OK, I’ve been negligent; I’d be the first to admit that. Also, a bit of a procrastinator, which is part of being in the journalism business (if they never gave us deadlines, you’d probably never see a newspaper). I’ve been meaning to write for the last month — honest! — but something always got in […]
The final word?
… I guess we wait and see Monday night, as a motion to name the trail on top of Mount Doom after former rec director Peter Dunbar is back on the agenda. Here’s my final word on the subject, as least as far as the treeware edition of the E-B is concerned: http://www.theenterprisebulletin.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3121345 And here’s […]
Oops, we failed to follow policy…
There’ll be more on this on the E-B’s site in the next few hours, once I figure out how to write this up. However, I can say this, based on my reading of the municipality’s naming policy. That is this – council blew it. And no, this has nothing to do with Peter Dunbar, and […]
Town going koo-koo bananas…
UPDATED… … and, it appears, it only took six months into this new term of council… Exhibit No. 1: At this moment (about 1:30 in the afternoon on Monday), two guys in a cherry-picker are washing down the new library building with a powerwasher and a broom. Really? Are we trying to preserve the building’s […]
Forget the book – I’m waiting for the TV movie…
As predicted by us local media types a few weeks ago, musing as we were over a beer on a Friday afternoon at the Huron Club, former Simcoe-Grey Member of Parliament, former Conservative, former Independent… Conservative, Helena Guergis intends to write a tell-all book on her adventures in Ottawa — presumably focused on what’s occurred […]
Final thoughts on Decision 2011…
… and I’ll try to keep it positive. Maybe… But whatever you do, please don’t take this as an endorsement (or non-endorsement) for any of the candidates; these are just some idle thoughts that are absolutely not reflective of the opinions of the E-B. I think it’s still too close to call for Monday, in […]
Grinding away at the campaign trail in Simcoe-Grey…
Last night’s all-candidate’s event in Thornbury hosted by the Blue Mountains Chamber of Commerce was a gas – 10 times much more fun than Collingwood’s, when we have to sit through the self-serving, elitist questions of the local media… Nope, instead, we get questions from the audience! About the Bilderburg Group! Nothing livens up a […]
Could Greens come in third in Simcoe-Grey?
For the third consecutive Meaningless Simcoe-Grey Poll™, Conservative Kellie Leitch has come in first with about 39% support; Independent… Conservative candidate Helena Guergis was second with 24%. The real numbers story on Monday, though, could be where Green candidate Jace Metheral (only one ‘L’; I don’t know why I keep on wanting to write ‘LL’) […]
The prediction comes true…
Former Collingwood mayor Chris Carrier turned out to be very prescient in his speech to Conservatives last month: the Wasaga Sun story claiming Kellie Leitch had sent out a “forged” endorsement letter by Warden and Beach mayor Cal Patterson would be in every mailbox in Simcoe-Grey, he warned. Sure enough, Carrier was correct, as on […]
Debating the debate: dissecting Tuesday’s Royal Rumble at the Legion…
(Updated – thanks to a reader, changed the headline from ‘Wednesday’ to ‘Tuesday’… the short week has me all screwed up!) A few quick points – and a poll! – before I rush into the office to put together the E-B’s Pre-Election Edition, filled with all kinds of candidate goodness for the Easter weekend (bonus: no […]