Editorial: Hoping for an even better new year

The best thing about 2017 is that it was not 2016. If you remember — and how could anyone forget — 2016 was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.
Our editorial last year predicted that 2017 was a good bet to be a happier time for the very reason that it followed what Her Majesty would describe as an “Annus Horriblus” — a horrible year.  
A star-crossed 2016 plagued us with calamities and tribulations such as the Fort McMurray wildfire, rock-bottom