Opinion

Four councillors voted against allowing a temporary homeless shelter at Franklin Avenue and 48 Street.

I went for a walk the other day, not a long walk, but on a route I hadn’t walked for a few days. Along the way I picked up over a dozen discarded face masks and the same number of wads of tissue, which I will just call snot rags, because I assume people have blown their nose into some tissues and then just thrown them on the ground. Throwing both away, as a lot of people seem to do, is hardly a hygienic practice and both are a form of litter and hazardous biological waste.

Why can’t this happen to me whenever I go to the corner store for a quick run?

No one denies that we needed immediate and determined action to turn the tide of COVID sweeping through the territories around. However, this 10-day lock down seems to target the private sector most of all at a time when it was trying so hard to get back on its feet.

Self-described as “small compared with the magnitude of its themes,” Trevor Herriot’s book Towards a Prairie Atonement fuses the conventions of historical and ecological writing to craft a book that insightfully explores both the land and people of the Canadian Prairies.

Like most of us, I have been mourning what I thought to be constants that I thought all of us understood to be true, before the pandemic struck in March of 2020.

Dear editor,

To boldly go where few have gone before.

When is an apology not an apology? When it is issued by the Catholic Church.

Dear editor,