Columns
Michael Mantha’s News from the Park – Long-term Care Oversight: It’s a matter of trust
The most recent editions of News from the Park have focused on Ontario’s catastrophic hospital wait times, staffing and funding issues for hospitals and increasing funding for our ailing healthcare system. Similarly, the columns discussed the need to promote training … Continue reading
Carol Hughes’ Column – Sale of Canada Post IT Services Goes Against Government’s Outsourcing Claims
Over the years, the Federal government has increasingly relied on outsourcing to private companies to get work done. While there will always be outsourcing of services that the government is ill-equipped to do themselves, the rate in which they, and … Continue reading
Michael Mantha’s NFTP for 240119 “There’s no place like home.”
Whether you are a doctor, nurse, cab driver, teacher or salesperson, we all understand that, along with the pleasures and perks that come with our jobs, we must accept headaches and heartaches. That’s just life. For me, one of the … Continue reading
Michael Mantha’s News from the Park 240112
Checking in with Algoma-Manitoulin hospitals January 12, 2024 We have now entered the period of the legislative calendar where MPPs are back in their constituencies for an extended amount of time. The Ford government recessed the legislature a week earlier … Continue reading
Carol Hughes’ Column – Prioritizing Passenger Trains Would Make a Huge Difference for Rail
This time last year, one of the big news stories coming out of the back end of the holiday season was the severe travel delays across Canadian airports. Thankfully, air travel was markedly more consistent this holiday season, and most … Continue reading
Dark Times And Black Humour — The Comedians Is A Beautiful Distraction.
“Dying is easy, comedy is hard.” For anyone who has stood before a group of people with the intention of making them laugh, those words are not a quote. They’re an epitaph. In surveys about panic and anxiety, no less … Continue reading
Trucks, Truckers And Trouble With A Capital “T”.
In 1896 when the German inventor Gottlieb Daimler converted a horse-drawn cart into a vehicle driven by a two-cycle gas engine, thereby creating the truck, he could not find a single buyer in all of Germany. There’s an awful lot … Continue reading
Classic Newspaper Headlines Reveal More About People Than The Press.
A newspaper headline is designed to grab your attention, sum up the story below it and entice you to read the body of the article. Over the years, good, bad, ridiculous and great headlines have become famous and infamous in … Continue reading
We’re Losing The Battle To Reverse Global Weirdness
Internationally, weirdness is off to a rollicking start just one month into the new year.In Myanmar, former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to four years in prison for using a walkie talkie. Presumably, if she’d have been caught … Continue reading
Reason, Bribing and Shaming Failed. Let’s Try ‘Tough Logic’ On The Anti-Vaxxers.
The provinces of Ontario and Quebec have always enjoyed a robust trade arrangement with cars and precious metals going east while aluminum and airplanes came this way. So a massive unprecedented blockbuster trade in today’s volatile world might be rare … Continue reading
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