Previous Columns by Darren MacDonald
March 18, 2013
Most anyone who has lived in Sudbury for any length of time has good memories of Sudbury Arena.I remember watching a young Randy Carlyle and, later, Mike Foligno play for...
February 19, 2013
In hindsight, the fact city councillors decided to drop Ontario Ombudsman André Marin as their closed-door meeting investigator shouldn’t surprise anyone.The relationship has been acidic for years, and for all...
January 02, 2013
The day I interviewed city staff about the city’s snow plowing network just happened to be the same day we were hit with the first major snowstorm of the winter.So,...
November 12, 2012
Looking back, we should have known this was no ordinary budget briefing when finance committee chair Terry Kett arrived and offered reporters homemade chocolate chip cookies.Kett, a veteran of local...


