Opinion

A long and arduous NFL season (for some teams more than others) has paved the way to the emergence of Super Bowl LVI, which will feature the AFC’s Cincinnati Bengals and the NFC’s Los Angeles Rams.

The work of Legislative Assembly committees is rarely the sort of thing that catches public attention.

Well, I suppose it was inevitable. Last Friday I felt a pain in my throat and began isolating immediately. I tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday night.

Instead of focusing on the thugs who occupied Ottawa and kept their horns blasting for the better part of the night for almost two weeks keeping everyone – including seniors, children, and the ill – awake, why don’t we focus on the many health care workers who continue to work long hours caring for the vaccinated and non-vaccinated alike though they reached the point of exhaustion long ago.

Editor’s note: This was labelled as an “Open Letter to: Caroline Cochrane, Premier, Julie Green, Health minister, Dr. Kami Kandola, chief public health officer, Dr. Anne-Marie Pegg, territorial medical director.”

I have always liked the following quote found in a poem called Desiderata by Max Ehrmann that was published in 1927.

The Rock the Rings youth curling bonspiel recently met the same fate as the Arctic Winter Games, Super Soccer and numerous other sporting events across the NWT.

The tide is turning on Covid-19 restrictions.

As much as it pains me to say it, John Elway is no longer the greatest quarterback in National Football League history. He’s still my GOAT, though.

From Rob Warburton,