http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/blogs en-gb Wed, 22 May 2013 04:16:00 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/blogs/Pages-from-the-past-144254305.html As the online coordinator for the Brandon Sun, one of the things I do is keep our Facebook page updated. If you like us on Facebook, you'll see that we post links to breaking news throughout the day, but we also give you a daily snapshot of our print edition by posting an image of the front page.... Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:05:00 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/blogs/International-Poetry-Day-newspaper-edition-143668666.html Apaprently today (March 21) is International Poetry Day. I'm not sure who sets up these days — according to Twitter, it's also International Hoodie Day? — but in my opinion, poetry doesn't get enough respect. It's all prose these days. And longer prose is better. Just ask anyone Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:43:00 CDT http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/blogs/My-Vic-Toews-conspiracy-theory-142078823.html I'm going to presume that you are up-to-date on Vic Toews and modern TV culture. If not, *spoilers ahead* because I think I've uncovered a weird coincidence that can't be explained -- except, perhaps, by conspiracy. Now, I haven't worked it all out yet, but bear with me: - Vic Toews, the Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:28:00 CST http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/blogs/Brandon-better-than-Calgary-141194683.html Maybe these days it's more Vancouver and Montreal, but when I was heading to university, all the people my age were talking about moving to Calgary. Getting out of Brandon — as soon as they could — was just assumed, and the city of Calgary was said to be the place where the grass was Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:02:00 CST http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/blogs/Police-are-wrong-about-cell-phone-risks.html I admit it -- I howled when anti-cell phone laws came into effect and I had to put my phone down while I was driving. Of course, I follow the law (mostly), but I still think it was a stupidly big hammer being used on too small a nail. (Hint: If "distracted driving" is the problem, Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:25:00 CST http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/blogs/What-a-January-138407214.html I had a couple of minutes this morning and thought I would take a look at just how warm it's been this January. It seems like every day has been above normal -- and not just a little bit above normal, but melty and rainy. Sure, most years we get some sort of January or February melt, but this Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:49:00 CST http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/blogs/New-oil-old-pans-138334174.html I've recently become a convert to cast iron pans. It's not quite as easy to use as a Teflon-based non-stick coating, but I have read too many scare stories recently that link those artifical non-stick coatings to cancer. And I'm terrible about heating up empty pans and thinking I can get away Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:36:00 CST http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/blogs/Raise-my-taxes-Please-137888658.html Let me be clear right from the start: I think the taxes I pay are a bargain for the services I receive, and I would like to pay MORE in taxes so that this city can do even MORE for me. News broke late last week that city council is going to re-consider the budget, but I hope they don't Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:20:00 CST http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/blogs/Every-city-is-triple-A-137029173.html In trying to tamp down all the hullabaloo about the city of Brandon's proposed budget, newly hired analyst Nathan Peto presented a few graphs and charts at Monday's city council meeting. You can take a look at a slideshow of his numbers here. From his numbers, we are led to conclude that Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:10:00 CST http://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/blogs/Name-the-park-136950113.html So, we need a name for the park at First and Rosser? A petition has been circulated to name it after former landowner David S. Weiss. City council is to debate naming it after longtime councillor Erroll Black. And the vaguely perjorative name "Battery Park" has been kicked around for a Mon, 9 Jan 2012 11:06:00 CST