Cobourg Council is now entering a familiar minefield. That of designating an old building. This time it is the Mansion known as “Strathmore House” for a little of the history click here. For those who do not follow current affairs this house is part of the lands referred to as “Brookside”. In the Fall 2021 issue of the “watershed magazine”,...
So the gloves come off. The County of Northumberland is taking the Town of Cobourg to court, and asking for a judicial review of the controlling bylaw for 310 Division St. over the objections of the Mayor of Cobourg and 99% of the outraged Citizens on the “Cobourg Blog”. This was noted as ‘could happen’ in a post dated November...
Doug Ford is the Premier of Ontario, an obvious Right-Wing Conservative type person who disregards advice and appears to rule the roost. The problem is that most of his decisions benefit his friends and developers friendly to him. Despite this problem being identified by the checks and balance of Parliament he usually ignores their findings. Examples of this type of...
Another oddball move by Cobourg Council – a bureaucratic answer to a simple question, which will muddy the waters and bury local activism. In another website – The BurdReport – a post (click here) outlined the struggles of thirty years of trying to establish a Nature Park and environmentally sound practises for the preservation of the land at the Harbour...
If you listen to the pundits – of all stripes you would think that the NDP is as dead as a dodo. They may be right if the status quo is maintained, but they should be wrong but that means big changes to the groupthink of Party Apparatchiks. If you think this is a familiar dilemma for all left-of-centre for...
A thirty year tragedy is being exposed once again. Local, and well renowned, naturalist Richard Pope and the Preservation Group – Preserve Our Heritage Harbour (POHP) is again advocating for supervision and accountability with regards to the West Headland of the Cobourg Harbour. The group’s (POHP) big beef is with Council over the activities of the Public Works Department’s dredging...
Once again a ‘hoary chestnut’ emerges from the depths of Vic Hall. Read the post in “Cobourg News” here The former CDCI West Sports Field land, which was purchased from the KPR School Board is now on the agenda for consideration for redevelopment. The latest wrinkle in the Town’s efforts to get something done with the land. To sum up...
In a recent article written by Cecilia Naismith about the Budget discussions at Cobourg Council Councillor Randy Barber suggested that a pay increase for the Council should be considered. Intrigued by this ‘out of the blue’ suggestion I contacted Mr Barber and asked if he could explain his comment and tell me how he spends his 30 hours a week...
Yesterday I posted that a new way of political thinking has to take place in the next Provincial Election if Doug Ford and his gang are to be defeated. I must apologise if the post only seemed half finished, because it was. I was having layout problems with the blog theme and I was concentrating on that problem rather than...
These pics are of the Leaders of the Opposition Parties in the Ontario Legislature Marit Stiles of the NDP and Bonnie Crombie of the Ontario Liberal Party. These people are unrecognisable to any of the population except to fellow MPPs, political pundits and nerds and geeks with a political bent. Neither are household names or instantly known to the voters....
This business with the 310 Division St. Emergency shelter is a mess, a BIG mess. Let’s imagine you sitting on Mars and watching the action what would you see? Angry neighbours, die-hard absolutists (Absolute in their opinion that any homeless drugged up mentally ill person is a product of their own misfortune and why should the rest of us help...
The latest post on Cobourg News has produced the most fiery posts from all of the commenters yet in the history of the blog. Boy are these people angry, sitting behind keyboards just pounding away with red hot fingers steam coming from all their body cavities. Well that sentence may be a little inflammatory but you get the idea. The...
This story was one of my first for a local publication. Written in 2008.
This article was about the history of coffeeshops and the coffeeshops in Cobourg in 2008
There are 52 of them – Jackson Houses; a basic Canadian style of design that was built by Reuben Jackson...
In 2008 the ‘mancave’ craze was just getting to be a big thing as the price of electronics was getting...
After 83 years the Pontiac Auto Manufacturing section of General Motors, came to an end. This article tracked the Pontiac...
We are inveterate travellers. Accustomed to many travels not much fazes us these day. This pic taken in India shows how we blend in to the environment.
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