Author Archive for Steve Campbell
Closed Doors: A Killing Blow
I study politics, human behaviour and corporate structures the way other people study a chess board, or enjoy the intricacies of an interesting movie. Except I don’t make popcorn. And I don’t sit silent for several hours. Right now, the County seems to be Ontario’s Favorite Kicking Post, which would not turn into a good […]
Suffering from Chronic Hospital Attacks!
I usually like irony, but sometimes it’s bittersweet. Hot on the heels of announcing the need for County Independence – freedom from a provincial government that appears to be blind and deaf to the needs and requirements of rural Ontario – they pull one more bonehead idea out of their hat. In their search […]
A New Government, and a New Army
My Great Plan for County Independence is rolling on. I should declare that I have no pecuniary interest in giving you my plan for free. The province has already offered me $100,000 in ‘hush money’ to shut me up. Of course, I cashed it, since we’ll soon be Free, and they’ll have to take it […]
County Independence Day – July 1, 2013
I’ve been pondering this for a long time, and have come to the conclusion that the time has come for us to secede from the Province of Ontario. Reading back through previous columns, I realized that most of our problems come from outside of the County. We’re bossed around and pushed around by the Province […]
A’Hunting we will go
Well, it’s just like the Government Grinch to try to steal the County’s Christmas spirit. On Dec. 21, it was announced that the Gilead Wind project at Ostrander Point had been approved. This opens the door to a whole new future of unstoppable Industrial Wind Turbine projects here. But we have no-one to complain to. […]
How ‘Word on the Street’ works
This is what I call a ‘clean-up” column. While I’m waiting for Council to do something foolish I can ridicule, I tend to move to more general stuff, like the steamroller of bureaucracy, and whether Dalton is the genuine Anti-Christ, or just a run-of-the-mill demon. Everybody’s watching Council as they forge their way through restructuring […]
Driving ourselves to Oblivion
For those of you who still think tons of rules help us live a utopic life, with everything in control and nothing left to worry about, I will continue with my rant from last issue. Loads of legislation makes us – well, stupid. It removes from our own hands responsibility for our own actions. It […]
Living in Non-Service Ontario
Every time I write a column about out-of-control bureaucracy, I get the usual comments from people who feel that thousands of rules – most of which people aren’t even aware of – are necessary to control our out-of-control citizens. “If only one life is saved, the rules are worth it,” people say. And I […]
The answer might be in the details
Everybody’s looking around to see what’s gone wrong with Prince Edward County. We can’t seem to sustain the budget the County demands for giving us the services we receive. So first we go lifting up the seat cushions on our chairs and sofas, scouting for some loose change that might have fallen out of […]
Gotta love South Marysburgh
The wind turbine issue never seems to end. Like Celine Dion’s heart, it goes on and on and on … Everyone is waiting for an announcement from the Ministry of the Environment which, by its very nature, is sworn to protect the environment. Fast-hand Dalton saw trouble brewing on the County’s south shore, so immediately […]
