We don’t care how much or how many “Cover Your Ass” statements (CYA) Cobourg Council issues anybody who condones or supports sleep deprivation is clearly guilty of torture! A Special Meeting of Council was held on Friday 12th December to address the many emails and calls that members of Council had received about the policy...
“OK, so you’ve panned the BTF’s report. If you had been a on the BTF, what ideas/programs/solutions would you have advocated? Please include sources and numbers. Looking forward to your reply. This challenge came in a comment to my post on the Cobourg News site. We are happy to respond. Firstly, as we reported the...
The Budgeteers have delivered, albeit two months late. It is an underwhelming document (read it here) simply because of the lack of specifics as opposed to mantras and platitudes. To put it bluntly we could have saved $20,000 and a lot of volunteer labour by just recycling most of the “Free- Marketeer’s” comments from the...
He wasted his time! Just watched the latest Cobourg Council Meeting held December 1st . That’s nearly three hours of my life I won’t get back. I say this as a dispassionate watcher of many Council Meetings and my hat goes off to the Councillors who actually attended this meeting. Total waste of their time...
Watching the saga of the Mayor, and his autocratacism, in the debate about the Police budget, he is obviously tilting at windmills in his efforts to be the big cheese. If he succeeds in his effort to get a 4% increase as he autocratically decreed a couple of months ago, as opposed to the 20%...
We went to a meeting last week and discussed the new Zoning By-Law (ZBL). In the small “Citizens’ Forum” easels held up many placards extolling the changes to the existing bylaw which were readily explained by members of the Consultant’s team. The new ZBL (read it here) is half the size of the old one...
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...
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...
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...
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...