Why is Pierre Polievre so mad all the time?

Was he born that way, angry upon delivery?  Did he ferret out cabal-induced conspiracy theories while he was a whip of a lad, a mere pup?  Did somebody push him off his scooter?  Do they purposely keep him under-fed so that he projects as perpetually hangry?

With a news release on March 6, the Renfrew County and District Health Unit has announced, with the Town of Renfrew, negotiations for the relocation of a RCDHU Service Hub to vacant space once occupied by the OPP at the Town Hall municipal building.  The relocation is scheduled to be complete by the end of June 2023.

The hub is intended for in-person client services, including routine immunization, parent-child wellness, and the Ontario Seniors Dental Care Program.

Renfrew mayor Tom Sidney is excited by the prospect of working with the health unit.

“The Town of Renfrew is excited to work with Renfrew County and District Health Unit as tenant within the former police detachment space at Town Hall. The health unit is an important partner given the importance and impact of their programs and services on Renfrew and surrounding area residents. We look forward to exploring other potential synergies and partnerships to support health and well-being.”

RCDHU Board of Health Chair Ann Aikens is similarly looking forward to the move.

“On behalf of the board and our dedicated team at RCDHU, I am delighted about our new partnership with the Town of Renfrew,” says Aikens.  “Our municipal partners provided so much support to us during the pandemic. This is an excellent example of how we can continue to work together collaboratively to meet the public health needs of the community.”

RCDHU plans to be out of its current O’Brien Road location by the end of June with the aim of no service disruptions during the transition period.

Look, I know it snows in March.  I’ve been a Canadian for long enough to know that snow can land in May if it feels it has to, and I can recall a mid-April dump of 30 cm back in the days when I had no snowblower.

But still, c’mon already.

Environment Canada has just issued another weather advisory regarding a storm that’s tripping its way across the U.S. mid-west and seriously thinking of popping up to Canada to smack us around with another good ol’ snow bomb, just to keep us on our toes.  It’s definitely got its eye on Southern Ontario, but the way things go around these parts, we tend to be along the same track as most of these storms heading for Toronto and area.

A decision has been made in Ottawa and, predictably, the political actors are playing the same cards they always do.

I’m talking about allegations involving foreign interference in Canadian elections, and more to the point, about how the Chinese insert themselves into this kind of stuff any time they get a chance. 

By the way, when I refer to the Chinese, I’m speaking about the Communist Party of China, or CPC.  Not the Chinese people.

Justin Trudeau announced today that that a parliamentary committee, one with access to top-secret intelligence, will look into this affair.  

Cue the music. Play the parts.

With all the talk of the Highway 417 extension, and with visible evidence of this project getting closer to Renfrew, attention must be paid to what happens when people follow this new road to Renfrew, experience it, then decide to live here.

Driving by Arnprior reveals all kinds of residential construction, completed or in progress, as that town absorbs more and more people into its soon-to-be city limits. 

As it happens there, it will happen here in Renfrew, perhaps to a lesser degree, but nonetheless it’s going to happen. So one of the key questions to be asked has to do with where these new people are going to live if they choose to reside within the town boundaries.

So where will these new housing developments be located?

Finally.

In Ottawa this week, the top executives from Canada’s major grocers will appear before MP’s on the House of Commons Committee Studying Inflation and Food Prices and answer tough questions about how they managed to make so much money through the pandemic and the following period of inflation.

Loblaws, Metro, and Empire Foods will be grilled over the rising cost of food and the substantial profits that these, the Big Three, have posted over the past year.

It’s like an episode of Coronation Street, except it’s for real and the invitations for the real coronation of Britain’s King Charles III have been sent out, and a certain couple hasn’t yet received theirs.

Hmm.

To add to the whole thing, the King has ordered his second son, Prince Harry, and his young family to move out of Frogmore, the place on the grounds of Windsor Castle where they would stay when visiting England.  He wants to give it to Prince Andrew and his collection of teddy bears instead.

The Renfrew Creamery Kings?

The Renfrew Wolves play back-to-back home games this weekend against Kemptville and Hawkesbury but they’ll have a completely different look while doing so.

It appears the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut is about to fall.

After a months-long siege by Russian forces, Ukrainian army units are methodically egressing from the city before they become completely surrounded.

Once a city of some 75,000 people, Bakhmut is now a smoking ruin with most of its pre-war population gone or dead, with few die-hards remaining.  Not a strategic place in any proper use of the word, but a place of prominence nevertheless as thousands of Russians have been killed and wounded here.  The Ukrainians, too, have suffered terrible casualties, but at a lower scale to the Russians.

Vladimir the Great. 

You have to admit, it’s got kind of a punch to it. If I was a Vladimir, I could go for that title all day long. 

Seems this Putin fellow, all five foot nothing of him, wishes to be the latest Russian historical figure. Wants to be on the same level as the big boys, like Lenin, Stalin, Peter the Great. Wants to be known as a great hero of the Russian people.

He recently pointed out that the last Russian ruler to totally control the Sea of Azov was Peter the Great. That’s really cool, other than he had to invade Ukraine to make it happen. But no matter. So did Peter the Great.