Our Town and Its Business

Bonanza night included another give-away. We had a presentation of a new and ambitious plan to regain the purity of Lake Simcoe. It involves...

This year we awarded a contract for $991,000 give or take a dollar for a new road on Knowles Crescent. There are 51 homes on the street. Th...

In other places, the U.K. to be specific, theft of electricity is a common offence. People rig the wiring to bypass their meters. In Aurora,...

Pandering is alive and well and flourishing and not just in Aurora. For the first time, I am close to accepting that politics is the second ...

I understated the role of the Mayor in a previous blog. I said there was prestige and a heavier work load but no power over council. It'...

I had the opportunity to be Mayor early in my career. Since then, I have found it interesting to observe how succeeding Mayors have handle...

HEATHER'S NOTE: We've just learned that The Auroran is now online. I'm thrilled, because this means I can read the paper online...

Since I started this blogging business, I have sensed through the tingle in my fingertips, the power in this new and personal media. There i...

There was a crisis in a north-west neighbourhood a few weeks ago. I received a call from a resident to report taps were dry. My heart lurche...

Last Wednesday I went to the park to enjoy the concert. The 48th Highlanders were playing. The park was packed. M&M Meat Shop was there,...

We are nine months into the current term of council. In the last term, a fairly efficient campaign was waged in the community to convince re...

I watched Mayor David Miller on a phone-in show on Saturday. His host had complete empathy with the city's revenue "shortfall"...

Today is the day the Redoubtable David Miller, Mayor of Toronto will reveal the awful consequences of his council's failure to support h...

People are happy to talk to visitors about their town. It was no different in Charlottetown. I had a thousand questions and they cheerfully ...

I remember attending the annual conference of the Canadian Conference of Mayors and Municipalities in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in...

Ten--thirty p.m. is council's hour of adjournment. It never happens. At the last meeting, seventeen of twenty-three agenda items were st...

I read in the Toronto Star yesterday about the Ontario Municipal Board "endorsing" a plan for high rise clusters in the west end o...

Last week, I received a call late in the evening. There was no water in the taps in the north-west corner of the town. The caller added peop...

Council met in the evening of June 17th for the first time as an audit committee. Boring, eh?! It didn't turn out that way. Councillor M...