Our Town and Its Business

"You should write a book . It should be required reading for every candidate " I've thought about it. . In the wonderful wor...

A reader asks if there are consequences for "accusing" Councillors of being in a Conflict of Interest, The writer probably watche...

Even sitting at the table, clues are often all we have. We read and listen and wait for the plot to be revealed. It doesn't take ...

Continuing yesterday's thought that a sensible politician needs to listen to what people are saying and understand . I am accustomed t...

Politicians are ready targets for criticism. It's par for the course. No politician of any skill, ignores what people have to say....g...

Council will decide to-morrow night whether or not to appoint a new Integrity Commissioner. Everybody knows of my legal action against six ...

Aurora Coalition has left a new comment on your post "Sins and Omissions": "You have written tens of thousands of words, the ...

I erred in my calculation of the total number of pages of print. There were eighty-four pages printed both sides. That's still humongo...

It seems many people believe a request for Freedom of Information needs to be filed in order to get any information from the Town Hall. I...

Margaret of Kettleby has died. I received the call as I was preparing to leave for Council on Tuesday evening. I'd been expecting ...

The cost of the report giving a definition of the word" storage" would not be exorbitant. It took the Chief Building Official'...

It's what comes to mind when I contemplate the town hall these days. Councillors have been provided with names and titles of every e...

For a sitting Councillor to learn of dramatic new initiatives in town communications from the media. This week the Chief Administrative...

Fifty years ago, the Town Park held the only diamond. It had probably been there for fifty years. Parkland was provided by Mr. Mosely ,w...

Is like knitting a sweater. It's constructed one stitch at a time. I wasn't there when Petch's cabin was lifted from it's...

To take one small step forward to reduce our carbon footprint on the earth during this term. With grant money yet. We had a list of projec...

Change has been the rule rather than the exception from 2007 on. We are already on our second round of replacement staff. In November 2008, ...

I drove down both Bayview and Yonge to Bloomington Road a couple of times during the holiday. Once in the dark on Christmas night and ...

Of the argument against secret selection of professional staff is a recent discussion on a sidewalk link in the re-construction of Nisbet D...

In a Letter to the Editor, the Mayor refuted my statement that the Town Treasurer was appointed without Council authority. A reader won...