Opinion

As the St. Paul Journal reported on its Facebook page about the termination of the town’s CAO on March 29, one person commented that town politics had become like a soap opera of late.

It was definitely not the most auspicious start to our long anticipated family holiday to a tropical destination.

Don't fret over this year's taxes. Worry about next year's.

Last week, our family faced a dilemma over a video game that I felt was not age-appropriate for our five-year-old and almost-nine-year-old boys, something I’m sure many parents now face with the increase in technology in all our lives.

Rumours about changes at the St. Paul & District Co-op Mall have been swirling for some time, especially following the closure of one of the Co-op Mall’s main staples, Doug’s Cafeteria, last year.

Every story is local. Every international happening boils down to an affected community - our friends, family and neighbours. I'm not sure which of my many mentors said this exactly, but it stands out as a golden rule of journalism.

The Liberals coasted into government last year with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promising sunny ways and optimism.

My husband and I are not creators of magic for our children. In fact, we are pretty well the exact opposite; we’re magic destroyers. We don’t do the Tooth Fairy. We don’t pretend to be the Easter Bunny. We don’t do Elves on a Shelf.

It just so happened that last night’s Town of St. Paul council meeting came before the Ides of March. And, as a seer warned Julius Caesar just before he was assassinated at a meeting of the senate on that date, “beware the Ides of March.

It’s been over a year now of living at an even more elevated disorganized state than usual, from neglected homework and misplaced tests, to laundry that had no other place to pile up aside from at the foot of the bed in a rather small room filled wit