Civic Affairs

(Lights illuminate the walkway from Brockville's COVID-19 assessment centre.)

(The flag of the People's Republic of China flies behind Brockville city hall on Tuesday.)

(Coun. Matt Wren (File Photo)

Brockville council may have given us its first instance of tactical green-shaming, and it was a thing to behold.

Cost-cutting is now officially part of the Ontario zeitgest, in a way it hasn't been since the era of Mike Harris. 

Public health authorities, and the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit among them, have long been ripe for accusations of bureaucratic excess.

I have frequently seen our local health unit do little to discourage such accusations, over the past two decades.

You know the drill, people, but for those who are new to the Lirpa Loof tradition that once made it to newsprint in a less rancorous age, please be assured, the previous post about SNC-Lavalin being pressured into covering the Brockville Railway tunnel's debt was an April Fool's joke.

The Brockville Railway Tunnel has a new and unexpected saviour. 

Linda Kay (via Concordia)

Every young journalist’s career will inevitably trip up on that first big mistake.

(Mayor David Henderson may be applying for the top administrator's job.)