Editorials

Last week I was joking around about the unseasonably warm weather we’ve been having over the past month or so, but it got me thinking about the bigger picture, and it’s honestly frightening to think about where the planet is going to be in 50 years, or 100.

For those of you who’ve read my editorials before, you probably remember me freaking out in the early fall months about everyone in town warning me that this will be the most intense winter I’ve ever seen, being from southern Ontario.

As someone who was a varsity basketball player back in the day, I can say from experience that my days playing high school sports produced some of the most memorable moments of my life. I also made some friends that I’m still close to ten years later.

I recently noticed a movie called Cinderella Man, that my father has a sizeable role in, playing on cable, so I decided to let my landlord know and we ended up watching it together.

Yes, things have been fun since the Vancouver Canucks brought head coach Bruce Boudreau on board in December, heck, the team didn’t lose a game in regulation for over a month.

Brace yourselves people.

With Omicron spreading like wildfire these days, it’s pretty shocking to see how little restrictions there are with air travel.

It’s officially 2022, and as with every start of a new year, everyone has just embarked on their brand new resolutions that they’ll probably give up on by February.

This being my first holiday season in a rural setting, I was curious coming to see just how it would all unfold. So far, the biggest difference I’ve noticed from growing up in an urban centre, is how much the community comes together for each other during the holidays.

Dec 6. was the 32-year anniversary of the tragic massacre at L’Ecole Poly-technique in Montreal. On that day in 1989, an anti-feminist man entered a mechanical engineering classroom at the school. After separating the men and the women, he opened fire, murdering 14 young women and injuring 13.