Opinion

I have a love-hate relationship with municipal election campaigns. OK, maybe it’s more of a hate-love relationship, but there is a tiny, microscopic bit of love. For example, I love when innovative ideas get put forward by candidates.

It pains me to do this, but the law is the law and sometimes you have to make a personal stand. Thus, I would like to report a violation of the UN Convention Against Torture. A war crime, committed against me. By my children.

To mark the suffering of the approximately 150,000 Indigenous children forced into residential schools, the federal government is planning a new statutory holiday. We support that plan – if it’s done right.

Picture this dream scenario: My family of five is sitting and waiting in the stuffy, crowded lobby of our local family restaurant. We are impatient. We are hangry. Suddenly, my youngest begins to scream.

The NDP government will provide its first official update of its finances within a few weeks, and there are some indications that not all things are as rosy as they appeared in the budget when it was tabled in February.

Editor: Re: New model will cost taxpayers , Record , Aug. 2. In his opinion piece, Keith Baldrey takes issue with the NDP’s new Community Benefits Agreement.

Editor: I’ve been following the back and forth in the news, columns and letters about the city council retirement payout debate.

Editor: Re: Buy-Low shoppers upset at store closure, Record , Aug.

The backseat of my family’s woodie wagon was one of my favourite places to play - and not just when it was parked.

The NDP government’s move to overhaul the province’s car insurance system may indeed make it fairer, but don’t expect the changes to make a big dent in your own insurance costs.