Our Town and Its Business

Aurora Council recently accepted a staff recommendation to appoint an Interim Director of a new half-million dollar tax-funded program in A...

The issue before Aurora Planning Board last Tuesday was a site plan for a vintage property in the centre of Town. Three lots of record we...

HEATHER'S NOTE: Wordle is an online gadget for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence ...

HEATHER'S NOTE: This is a reprint of a letter Evelyn wrote to the Editor of the Auroran in 2003. I found it again yesterday and have p...

I seldom start a fight. I generally prefer not to tussle with someone several generations removed from myself. The match is uneven. Oddly en...

When I came back on Council in 2003 I was aghast at the amount of paper I accumulated. I asked CAO Larry Allison; "What am I suppos...

I've been ploughing through paper for two days now. If it was all in one room it would be enough to bury me. It came from the town. It r...

Anonymous said: Evelyn. You really disappoint me. There is definite anti-semetism in the Liberal Party. please use this link to corroborate ...

I have received two more comments. There's a reference to the Liberal Leadership and one to Tim Jones failure to increase taxes when...

To my Anonymous correspondent - thank you for continuing the dialogue. I've reprinted you last comment here, and my response is below. A...

Anonymous said... We should vote for Tim because we know him and he's a good guy?WTF?I also happen to think Tim is a good guy but we...

Yes I have noticed there's an election at home. How could I not? It's the third in five years. Down here, we have had four years im...

I watch American politics. I can't help it. But it does put things at home into persepective.. In the last election I couldn't belie...

The York Region District Separate School Board Trustee, Elizabeth Crowe delegated to Council a couple of weeks ago. The Board were being re...

In the last term of Council , the concept of Department Business Plans was introduced The objective was to create a performance measuremen...

HEATHER'S COMMENT: Ok people, someone named "Anonymous" has just left a particularly scurrilous comment on the last post ...

HEATHER'S NOTE: This comment was recently received on "The Hate Mail" post. Anonymous said... "The writer merely wrote w...

Yesterday I removed "the hate mail" Blog. I was never quite sure I should post it.I think it's a vitriolic diatribe. A perso...

I missed last week's council-in-committee meeting. I watched it on DVD. Not all at once but I did watch until the end. Councillor Wilson...

HEATHER'S NOTE: As promised, here is the hate mail that Evelyn mentioned in her last post. Please comment and let her know what you thin...