All Entries in the "BLOGS" Category
Who should worry most about COVID-19?
I am an actuary with more than 50 years experience in the life insurance industry, including researching mortality rates in Canada. I have done some analysis of death rates from COVID-19 and make some suggestions below. [Summary] Seniors and people with some chronic medical conditions are at high risk from COVID-19, and should stay away […]
Word on the Street: Steve goes insane… again
If you’ve read the last three columns, you can probably sense a theme. Being a municipality relegated to being a tiny baby-drooling, diaper-filling, hand-me-down, constantly-crying, pleading and begging pathetic creature … sucks. The real power is in the parental house: the Feds and the Province. Most of us, not including me, eventually grow up. They […]
8 Wing Trenton thanks community for support during COVID-19 quarantine at base
Letter of thanks to the community, from Col Ryan Deming, Commander 8 Wing/CFB Trenton, for the support received during the recent operation to repatriate and quarantine Canadians impacted by COVID-19 in China and Japan. From 31 January to 28 February 2020, 8 Wing/CFB Trenton was involved in an unprecedented operation to return Canadians home […]
Word on the Street: Ready to consult
In an earlier column, I gave County Council a passing grade on decision-making, bound as they are by the Municipal Act. The Act, should you decide to read it and then kill yourself, is a wide selection of arbitrary rules, conjured up by a pile of lawyers and politicians armed with paranoia, worst-condition thinking and […]
PECI Panther Sr. basketball Central Ontario Champs heading to OFSAA
The PECI Senior Boys Basketball team made school history yesterday by repeating as Central Ontario Champions. Last year, the boys made history by winning the school’s first-ever COSSA title, and they followed it up this season with another OFSAA birth by defeating Nicholson Catholic College 44 – 32 in the championship game played at Norwood […]
Word on the Street: The psychology of change
I covered a lot of territory in the last column, but now I’d like to cut into the County Brain and pull out all those ugly demons that lurk in the corners of your mind. I am not a certified behavioural psychologist, but I watch people, study people and listen to people, and have determined […]
Support bid to establish County’s wildlife areas as conservation reserves
Letter to the Editor: Dear Mayor Ferguson and Council members I wish to express my full support of the Prince Edward County Field Naturalists and SSJI representative Cheryl Anderson’s presentation to the County Council Committee of the Whole this Thursday to ask for your active participation in establishing Ostrander Point Crown Land Block and Point […]
Word on the Street: A Matter of Distraction
I know I’ve been gone a long time, but I’ve been busy. Every once in a while I run across things that make the previously empty parts of my brain start to ponder. It’s like when you start a weedeater, and realize that the gas is 10 years old, and it takes 150 pulls on […]
Decision to douse fireworks disappoints
Letter to the Editor RE: Recreation Committee stepping back from Canada Day fireworks display The reasons put forward by the Picton Recreation Committee for eliminating Canada Day fireworks border on the ludicrous. (It stated ‘Fireworks are beautiful and most of us enjoy them, but aside from the tremendous cost —last year’s 15-minute display was $6500– […]
Senior Boys basketball on a mission for championship
The PECI SR Boys Basketball team made a statement to the rest of the league this week that players are on a mission for the Bay of Quinte Championship. The boys matched up with rival NCC Crusaders Thursday evening in front of a packed gym at PECI. The boys were coming off a big 64 […]
