Last time I used this column to dip into what was going on in Sudbury, Ontario, there was a heck of a stink over an Elton John concert.
You may recall that 6,000 tickets sold out within 45 minutes and thousands of punters missed out on seeing Elton at Sudbury Arena.
Imagine their anger when they discovered, thanks to the local paper, that Mayor John Rodriguez and councillors had creamed off 120 tickets before they went on sale. When last we heard, councillors had apologised but were hanging onto the tickets.
Well, by the day of the concert, they had returned 71, but the rest had already been passed on to charities or sold to family and friends.
The government ombudsman quite rightly rapped them over the knuckles and the rules have been changed to halt the practice.

Our Sudbury has a thriving history society and an impressive series of annual lectures at the Quay Theatre, given by speakers who unearth all sorts of hidden nuggets from the town's past.
But I wonder how they'd all get on in Ontario where, I read, thousands of the other Sudburians have gathered to mark the town's 125th birthday.
Mayor Rodriguez told the assembled how the community formed around a railway junction which later developed into an important mining town.
Obviously there was native American history before that, but the fact that Sudbury is just 125 puts our long and rich past into perspective.

Back over here, who hasn't stopped to spare a thought for those fantastic people who toil so hard to bring us so many great summer events? For them, listening to the weather forecast must be a white-knuckle experience at the moment.
Will they enjoy glorious sunshine – Sudbury Open Gardens – or a monsoon, like Nayland church fete.
Good luck to everyone this weekend, as they gear up for fundraisers at Newton Green, Clare and Nayland primary schools and elsewhere. Fingers crossed for the weather.