Author Archive for Steve Campbell
The New Direction is the Old Direction
I know you’re all anxious to hear my plan for the County’s future, but first I have some explaining to do, thanks to the responses to my last column. My detractors may also consider this something of an apology, so they can sleep at night. First: I do indeed apologize for my lead, which I […]
Urban wins, Rural loses – again
The provincial election is over, and I’ve almost stopped crying myself to sleep. It isn’t that I’m not proud of having a lesbian women who bears an uncanny resemblance to Orville Redenbacher as premier, it’s just that there is no indication that she is any different than McGuinty. After first assuming the office, she promised […]
Selling the County
This is a difficult subject for me to address, as I have been involved in the marketing of The County since 1976 … quite a different time than the County of today. Each year in January, our County Magazine Team gathers to discuss possible new directions and additions for our Breakaway Magazine visitor’s guide. This […]
Power, Purpose, Principle and Vision
I know from responses to my Times columns and countylive.ca blogs that Word on the Street works pretty well according to its original purpose: To get people talking. I have my fans, and I have my enemies, and that doesn’t really matter. The only thing that matters is to get intelligent people thinking about […]
The Great Canadian Sell-Out
As a column writer, it never ceases to amaze me that people will read one sentence, or one word, and run off with it in a different direction. On the countylive.ca blog, I was under attack for a reference about shopping at Dollarama, from a blogger concerned that I was promoting buying cheap imported goods. […]
The Devil and the Deep Red/Blue Sea
A New Year is upon us and, if human nature is still the guiding factor, we will repeat all of the mistakes we have made in the past, and then make up excuses for why we are not getting any smarter with age. If there’s a God in Heaven, I hope the debt-building disasters and […]
Bye Bye, Turtle, Bye, Bye
Leave it to Conroy and The Times to keep a watchful eye on the Ostrander Point debacle, as noted in the last issue. I think everyone in the County would like to see an end to the ongoing debate about Wind Turbines but, like the wind itself, you never know when it’s going to come […]
Knowing where to draw the line
Sorry for the long absence … it’s been a hectic year. I have completed cataract surgery and I highly recommend it to everyone, even if you have no eyesight problems. I can now see clearly – visually if not mentally. Due to the delay, I hope I’m in time to make some comments on the […]
Come The Revolution …
This is not a column about Industrial Wind Turbines. Sort of. And it’s not a column about the rape and death of PEC Memorial Hospital. Sort of. It’s a story about what has gone wrong with Ontario and Canada. If you’re an innocent man standing at the gallows with a rope around your neck, and […]
Who has Stewardship of the County?
Who are the best stewards of the land? Who are the best stewards of the people? These are questions I have been pondering, while watching the draconian movements of our provincial and federal governments. The concept of stewardship goes back a long way. Originally, it described a position of responsibility. The steward was hired to […]
