Author: Sudbury Steve

The attached screencap was shared with me recently, along with some questions about whether Councillor Kirwan is being honest with people in his Valley East group about what’s actually going on with the so-called “Kingsway Entertainment District”. Without question, there are several significant untruths in this post from December 10,

At this critical moment in history, when we’re being warned by the best and the brightest that we have just 12 years to get our act together if we’re going to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees C, Ontario’s new Conservative government released its climate change plan.  It’s a plan

Credit where it’s due: Earlier this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the federal plan to price carbon pollution for provinces like Ontario that refused to adopt provincial pollution pricing schemes (see: “Government of Canada fighting climate change with price on pollution,” Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, October 23,

In Part 6 of this blogseries, I laid out what I considered to be the three big land use issues that the LPAT will need to make a determination on for the matters presently before it related to a casino, arena and parking lot development proposal in the City of

This blogpost has been a very challenging one for me to write.  I began writing this post shortly after receiving a copy of the City’s Response Case Synopsis to my September, 2018 submission to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT).  I received those documents in early October – and now,

For a while now, I’ve had the Irish Rovers’ song, “Wasn’t that a Party?” rolling around in my head.  I think that after the LPAT deals with the matters I’m about to describe, we would all benefit from enjoying two or four six-packs and find our heads swollen like footballs

What will our city look like in 30 years?  Can we expect to see bike lanes on every major street, and houses covered in solar panels?  Will we continue to burn fossil fuels and emit greenhouse gases at the same levels as today, or will we have made the shift

If matters leading our municipal Council to decide to throw away a decade’s worth of direction for a new arena as articulated in our land use planning and economic development documents in favour of a choosing a failed industrial property for a marquee piece of public infrastructure (a community arena/events

I’ve been overdue with my updates on my experiences with the LPAT.  After a summer of inaction, a lot has been going on lately, so I’m hoping to add my two cents via my blogs here – building on the first two entries in this series, “The Kingsway Cases at

The Trans Mountain pipeline will never be built.  Acknowledging this reality should be the starting point any further discussion on the subject between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet. With last week’s Federal Court of Appeal decision leading to the immediate suspension of pipeline construction, Trudeau has been handed

It’s August, and my family and I hit the road to visit my parents in Twillingate – a small outport community on Notre Dame Bay in Newfoundland. It’s been 25 years since I’ve been here, but the 3 days spent in the minivan were worth it. The kids have been

There has been a co-ordinated effort underway in Ontario over the past several decades to sow doubt about the scientific basis for needed boreal caribou recovery efforts.  Canada’s iconic boreal caribou has seen its range decrease through habitat destruction.  Efforts to reverse the march to extinction have been thwarted by

The so-called “Kingsway Entertainment District” “Let the wild rumpus start”    –“Where the Wild Things Are”#1 – Council selected the Kingsway site for an arena 9 months before land use applications were approved.Yes, that’s right – Greater Sudbury Council had already pre-determined that the Kingsway site would be the location

This is the second part of my post bringing everyone up-to-speed on where appeals to the Local Planning Appeals Tribunal (LPAT) of land use decisions for a casino/arena/parking lot on the Kingsway are at.  In my earlier post, “The Kingsway Cases at theLPAT: An (Unrepresented) Party’s Observations, Part 1: In

I’ve decided that I’m going to blog about my perceptions and experiences with an appeal that I’ve filed to the Local Planning Appeals Tribunal (LPAT) over a land use decision made by the City of Greater Sudbury Council related to a zoning by-law amendment that would permit an “arena” in

Complete Streets are a hot topic right now.  The provision of Complete Streets in a community is usually considered part of a strategy for attracting and retaining creative class employees and entrepreneurs – the types of people that are driving our 21st Century knowledge economy.  And of course, since Complete

Some interesting contrasts on print media websites today with regards to how this election might play out.In the Sudbury Star, there’s a letter to the editor suggesting that older voters hold the key to the outcome (see: “Sudbury letter: Older voters hold the key,” John Lindsay, the Sudbury Star, June

Wow. Greater Sudbury’s Ward 5 Councillor needs to resign. Apologize first, and then resign. His bullying and casual accusations of illegal behaviour directed against those who oppose his own personal vision of development in the City has to come to an end.The City and rogue Councillor Robert Kirwan have really

Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline will never be built.  That might appear to be a bold statement, given the federal Liberal government’s recent commitment to pour taxpayer’s money into the project to keep it afloat.  (see: “We are going to get the pipeline built’: Trudeau begins federal talks with Kinder

To my regular readers: please forgive me this additional indiscretion – I’ve become involved in a matter in my community for which I feel very passionate about – my municipal Council’s decision to betray the public by authorizing a new arena/events centre in an industrial area on the urban fringe