All Entries in the "Steve Campbell" Category
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 […]
Man, people are stupid!
I have two topics for this column, and they are totally unrelated. So don’t apply the title to the second part, or I might get sued. That part is not about being stupid. Just silly. This is an unprecedented column. I am about to give a tip of the hat to Dalton McGuinty. For those […]
We’re all victims of politics
I read the other day that plans are underway to possibly build a new hospital just up the road from the current one. I’m not against such a thing – I hear there are problems with controlling airborne bacteria in older buildings – but I’m a little puzzled. If we look back on the […]
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 […]
Mythology 101
My last column created something of a firestorm on the countylive.ca website, because any mention of the urban/rural rift, inevitably brings out an ‘us vs. them’ attitude in County residents. This was not my intent. In fact, I was trying to draw a picture of how cohesive the County is, despite the difference in sensibilities […]
A Growing Urban/Rural Rift
The Good Ol’ County has been getting a lot of press lately in Metro Toronto newspapers, and not all of it seems to be good. It is not coming from Toronto people who have learned to know and love the County. It’s from city reporters who spend a few hours here and then describe […]
PEC budget: Bring Out the Scalpels and Machetes
I’m about to get really busy, so you might not hear from me again for a while. Also I may have to leave the country after I write this final column on the Budget Issue. The heat is on, based on the explorations in my previous columns, but it’s now time to take out the […]
