Tag: Municipal politics

This is my column in Friday’s edition of the E-B – and after reading the agenda for Monday’s council meeting, it’s even more appropriate given the town is now thinking of declaring the yacht club property surplus… Ontario’s Municipal Act is pretty clear. Municipal councils, under Sec. 239 (2) may close a meeting if the […]

… there’s, uh, more smoke… Jeez, it’s getting smoky in here… So, I’m reading Steve Berman’s latest blog post on Five Questions Collingwood Should Ask About Ed Houghton, thinking eventually I’ll get to the question of what shade of Just For Men is in Ed’s medicine cabinet (here’s a hint:

… E-B reporter Emily Innes will be hitting tonight’s Christian Heritage Party meeting protesting the casino proposal; I’m certain there will some interesting fodder for discussion, especially as the owners of a resort in Collingwood will appear before town council asking for support to put the slot machines in their

Guess what’s got councillors’ goats this morning? It seems the Central Park Steering Committee were informed in September, 2011 that the YMCA lost out on a provincial/federal grant it was hoping to obtain — that’s that $3 million grant referred to by Y CEO Rob Armstrong in a letter on

Here’s my, uh, rather ‘brief’ recap of last night’s Friends of Central Park meeting. And here’s just a few of my other thoughts: Thumb’s Up: Acting-CAO Ed Houghton gets a lot of props in my book; he walked into a n0-win situation and… um, well, I don’t know if he

So tonight, Occupy Collingwood Friends of Central Park project will be holding a public meeting at the Collingwood Legion to get out “the facts.” There’s been so much flying around these days about the rec facilities, it’s been tough to separate ‘facts’ from the ‘fiction’. There’s also been nasty swirly

… The Simcoe-Muskoka YMCA, in an open letter to its members, indicates it has met with municipal officials and presented an option for aquatics. It included a breakdown of costs that the local rumblings suggest would make it (gasp!) cheaper financially more efficient for the Y to operate a 25-metre

… or the Long March to Truthiness… On Monday, the folks who want town council to revisit the decision on rec facilities will march from Central Park to town hall. They’ll be wanting answers, but all I suspect is they’ll come away with is frustration and sore feet. Let’s face

Will you be downtown at 4? Will there be 100? 300? 23? There’s no question the folks rallying in front of town hall against council’s decision to build two fabric structures — one over Centennial Pool, the other over a new ice rink planned for Central Park — are driven