Civic Affairs

Dr. A.G. Ahmed speaks to city council in this 2013 file photo.

Mayor David Henderson has always been a tell-it-like-it-is kind of guy.

Few things can turn a government bureaucracy upside-down like an election.

Mayor David Henderson is seriously tired of being bugged about the old Woolworth's building.

The Battle of Blockhouse Island is over – at least for a year.

I like to dump on commenters who gripe underneath the stories we post.

Much of the time, they are uninformed, needlessly angry and apt to fall on each other like a pack of crazed schoolyard bullies after about the second go-round.

Besides, they once compared me to Forrest Gump.

Let it not be said, however, that I do nothing but dump on online commenters.

Not that anyone was fooled, but journalistic integrity demands I disclose that yesterday's entry on a secret meeting at the Brockville Arts Centre between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was the continuation of a Brockville tradition.

That would be the Lirpa Loof tradition.

For the record, "Den Duraka" is Russian for "Day of the Idiot," the Russian version of April Fool's Day.

A red armoured vehicle drives by the Russian, Irish and British flags at the Brockville Arts Centre Saturday.

I have been barred, by three countries' national security agencies, from reporting this story.

OK, Brockville, take a breath. Deep, and through the nose. Before you sink us back to 165th.