Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Is English Our First Language ?":
18:12
Come on - give her a break. She was a Reeve, Councillor and Mayor.
They fact she does not know what encumbrance accounting is - something municipalities do - is not important either
Posted by Anonymous to Our Town and Its Business at 2 March 2015 at 09:19
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I am Queen of my castle. V.P. of communications for The Good Ship Lollypop.
I was also Deputy Mayor of Aurora for a bit. Then as now, the Procedure Bylaw had to be passed before any other business of a new Coincil. An alternate had to be named to sign cheques and agreements and read the Riot Act if the Mayor was absent.The title of Deputy was used in the Bylaw. Not otherwise.
The town operated a police department. In the absence of real criminality, the Chief's pre-occupation was "The Mafia " and public morality.
A chain of dry-cleaners opened a branch in the shopping centre. The Chief suspected it was really a money-laundering operation.
On one occasion, he decided a movie at the George Theatre was pornographic. " Box Car Bertha'' was the title. The chief ordered it shut down.The Riot Act did not have to be called to deal with
public outrage .The theatre complied and anyway, it was in the Northern Town of Nefarious Newmarket.
If anything seamy happened the blame was assigned to the denizens of that community.
Aurora was a righteous and severe Scottish Presbyterian town. Newmarket was an Irish Catholic
community with all known and recognizable traits and a few more besides.o
Come to think of it, I'm not sure Aurora's chief had any power in Newmarket..Maybe their Chief let him assume the Mantle of Authority considering the seriousness of the matter.Anyway it's all in the Annals of History if anyone at all has been paying attention.
The Regional Police Department is forty-four years old now. In Aurora a person struts about
with the title of Deputy- Mayor.
The Prime Minister of Canada dropped into York Region Police Central Command in Aurora to alert the community to terrorist risks.
Canada's world-wide reputation of peace-keepers and mediators.is abandoned in favour of tough
guys intent on whipping bad guy Russian President Vladimir Putin into submission.
Monday, 2 March 2015
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I love your stories. One of them reminded me of when we lived in a town north of here & everyone was convinced that the shoe repair guy was running numbers out of his tiny little place. They focused on that & failed to notice the drywall mob in the housing industry.
The Deputy acts like a bully.Just ask committee members about his antics.
The PM might roar like a lion at home but the other leaders have nothing to do with him.
05:56, especially if it has anything to do with music.
20:58 if you are talking about the Jazz Festival you are dead wrong.The Farmers Market got screwed and in the founders own words, half of that festival belongs to the AFM.
@5:56
Simply go around him. There are other councillors. You deal with a bully by refusing to see him/her.
No, 05:10, I wasn't referring to that. Just anything music-related, really, particularly if it involves him getting a chance to play his guitar.
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