Opinion

With less than a month before the students from across Canada, China and Mongolia arrive, Canada World Youth organizer Terrance Lowe is still scrambling for host families.

I feel the need - the need for speed! I'll apologize now for shamelessly stealing this line from Tom Cruise and the movie Top Gun, but I just can't help it.

Setting priorities - that, to my mind, is the most important and most difficult task facing elected officials. And with its rushed decision last Thursday to approve a $3 million to $3.

Isn't it great that your hard-earned tax dollars go for something important like a former MP's junket to Scotland? If you haven't heard, ex-MP Svend Robinson recently returned from a four-day trip to Europe - a trip funded by taxpayers.

There's quite a battle brewing between the Sechelt Indian Band and residents of Pender and Egmont. At issue are foreshore rights and aboriginal title. It's difficult to take sides in this issue because both groups make pretty good cases.

So here's the thing: I have a problem with depression. I know what you're thinking.

The sun was beaming down on a cloudless day, my cup was filled with a golden brew, I was sitting 10 rows up behind home plate, and I wondered if life could get any better than this.

For those wondering how the CBC could have made the colossal election-night error of declaring John Reynolds had lost, the poll-by-poll results from Elections Canada provide fascinating insights.

It's the morning after. A day for candidates to either pat themselves on the back (never a shortcoming of any politician) or kick themselves a little lower in the same vicinity (never a habit of any politician).

With election day looming, I'm undecided, despite - or perhaps because of - hours of listening to debates. Since I'm not truly inspired to vote for any party, I'll try a process of elimination.John Reynolds: no.