Boaters need to be schooled on the rules of the water
What is it about a Personal Water Craft that give its rider an enhanced sense of entitlement? We constantly deal with it at the canoe club; idiots who scream up…
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Council discussing serious issues in secret?
Can’t help but notice on tonight’s agenda for Collingwood Town Council there are several issues that are being taken behind closed doors. While there’s a couple that would be understandly…
Nottawa residents shafted by Elections Ontario
So this week, the crack news team at the Enterprise-Bulletin has been following up on this business of Nottawa residents having to traverse to Ravenna in order to exercise their…
I’m so bored with blogging, I can’t even be bothered to come up with a title…
OK, so it’s not so much that blogging is, like, so 2008, but that I’ve been tremendously busy between work, paddling, and working out. But now that paddling is pretty…
The facepalm moment…
So Monday night’s council meeting was 50 minutes, which wouldn’t be so bad had it not been for the fact that agenda-wise, it should only have been about 10. The…
Mid-August: time for an update…
Holy Jeez, this summer is just whipping by. One moment is mid-July and 35 degrees, and the next is an early August morning and I’m freezing my butt off on…
Housekeeping…
Yes, it does seem I’ve fallen off the blogging map, doesn’t it? No fear, though, as I’m sure once council gets back into full force, and we’re thrown into the…
A little bit too much information…
OK, I’ve been negligent; I’d be the first to admit that. Also, a bit of a procrastinator, which is part of being in the journalism business (if they never gave…
The final word?
… I guess we wait and see Monday night, as a motion to name the trail on top of Mount Doom after former rec director Peter Dunbar is back on…
Oops, we failed to follow policy…
There’ll be more on this on the E-B’s site in the next few hours, once I figure out how to write this up. However, I can say this, based on…
Trail motion deferred…
Quick note: town council has deferred a motion naming the trail on top of the berm beside the Shipyards after former leisure services director Peter Dunbar. Councillor Ian Chadwick asked…
Town going koo-koo bananas…
UPDATED… … and, it appears, it only took six months into this new term of council… Exhibit No. 1: At this moment (about 1:30 in the afternoon on Monday), two…
Forget the book – I’m waiting for the TV movie…
As predicted by us local media types a few weeks ago, musing as we were over a beer on a Friday afternoon at the Huron Club, former Simcoe-Grey Member of…
Final thoughts on Decision 2011…
… and I’ll try to keep it positive. Maybe… But whatever you do, please don’t take this as an endorsement (or non-endorsement) for any of the candidates; these are just…
Grinding away at the campaign trail in Simcoe-Grey…
Last night’s all-candidate’s event in Thornbury hosted by the Blue Mountains Chamber of Commerce was a gas – 10 times much more fun than Collingwood’s, when we have to sit…
Could Greens come in third in Simcoe-Grey?
For the third consecutive Meaningless Simcoe-Grey Poll™, Conservative Kellie Leitch has come in first with about 39% support; Independent… Conservative candidate Helena Guergis was second with 24%. The real numbers…
The prediction comes true…
Former Collingwood mayor Chris Carrier turned out to be very prescient in his speech to Conservatives last month: the Wasaga Sun story claiming Kellie Leitch had sent out a “forged”…
Debating the debate: dissecting Tuesday’s Royal Rumble at the Legion…
(Updated – thanks to a reader, changed the headline from ‘Wednesday’ to ‘Tuesday’… the short week has me all screwed up!) A few quick points – and a poll! -…