Opinion

It's election time and as a person who avoids television and commercial radio I'm not being bombarded by advertising, if any is happening.

Dear Editor Insanity is doing the exact same thing and expecting different results so, expecting economic growth to help us is a form of insanity. For decades, the foundation of any political party has been their economic platform.

Dear Editor In 1786, the farmers of western Massachusetts were angered by the denial of their right to vote in the new republic and by the neglect of the veterans of the revolutionary war.

Most people will admit that certain areas of their lifestyles could use some improvement. Often, these changes are put off or excuses are made. This can be okay temporarily, but when changes are put off too long problems can arise.

Ah, provincial election time. It's a magical time, for everyone in this province.

Ed, my neighbour next door, never misses what is happening at our house. Yesterday, we had a couple of men hired to move some furniture out of the house and around in the house.

It takes a special kind of humility for a medical professional to admit that something he or she was taught in medical school, and has long since clung to as fact, is actually false.

As I read more and more about the opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, particularly in Nebraska, I am becoming increasingly convinced there is something in their water - and it isn't oil.

Election polling is best left to the experts, and even then the debate about their accuracy and impact on the electoral process are hotly debated by politicians, pundits and statisticians. In the case of the newsoptimist.

When it comes to highway construction or reconstruction, everyone is an engineer.