Sydney, a “resilient and proud community with a history of hosting major curling events” will host the 2024 World Women’s Curling Championships (WWCC). I have bones to pick with that sentence (which opened a Curling Canada press release I received on Friday). First, Sydney hosted the 2019 Scotties Tournament ofRead More

It struck me that we should have heard something by now about CBRM’s bid for Curling Canada’s 2023 Tim Hortons Brier — bids were due by September 30 and according, to Curling Canada’s own website, the public announcement for the Brier “will be made no later than 16 months priorRead More

Lease released The first rule of accessing information from public bodies is “just ask for it,” and sometimes — hallelujah! — just asking is all it takes. For instance, I asked the CBRM for a copy of the lease signed between the municipality and Danny Ellis’s company, the catchily namedRead More