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Estuary at Stewart, BC
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The bridge in Riverside Park, Guelph ON.
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Along the Yellowhead Highway near Edson, AB.
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Butterfly Conservatory, Cambridge ON.
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Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Guelph, ON.
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Guelph’s Ballot Box Issues
With less than two weeks left until the City Council election we see some ballot box issues crystallizing. These are the issues that candidates hope will be front of mind when you stand at the ballot box on October 22. Let’s look at some of them. Experience Should this be a deciding factor in our choice of Mayor? Experience on Council is important, but so is real life experience outside city hall. Managing the city is not in the Mayor’s job description. The Mayor chairs meetings and leads the governance process. City Council hires a Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) to manage the city. The CAO
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The incumbent plays the victim card
In 2016 Cam Guthrie gave some advice to students. People who experience racism or extreme prejudice, he said, should never play the victim card. He would know. As an English-speaking white male with a background in insurance sales, racism would have touched his life in countless ways, wouldn’t it? This wisdom was shared in an interview with the campus newspaper The Ontarion after completing his first year in the mayor’s office. Now, three years later, he ought to take a long look at himself. He is busily playing the victim card as he runs for re-election. He played it a couple of times at the
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Slategate, Periscope and Aggie’s experience
SlateGate Confirmed The two candidates for Guelph mayor had their first debate last Wednesday. Cam Guthrie confirmed something originally revealed in my blog column on September 17 when he answered a question from the audience. Local radio station CJOY has an audio file of the meeting. “Hopefully,” Guthrie said, “after October 22 we will have 13 like-minded people who put Guelph first.” The question was about him campaigning with candidates who are challenging incumbent councillors who have not always agreed with him. These are Bob Bell, James Gordon, Phil Allt, June Hofland, and Mike Salisbury. Guthrie and ward 1 councillor Dan Gibson put together a
Different sides of Glasgow
This evening I finished sorting through my photographs from my week in Glasgow and posted them to my SmugMug photography blog. There are many different sides to the city, and
Book Review: Stephanie Land, Maid: hard work, low pay and a mother’s will to survive. Hachette Books, 2019
Everyone has a story to tell and people with few physical possessions often have several. Stephanie Land has written her story into a memoir tracing her journey through the poverty