Perhaps he never had one! These six people put the boots to the Mayor’s “Campaigning from the Chair”. Regular readers will recall the Mayor had placed three “Notices of Motion” on the agenda of the August 26th Summer Council Meeting we wrote about it here. At that meeting, which was another Summer marathon, nine hours long,...
Mr Burd, On Aug 11, 2026 you posted an email from your long time friend Max LeMerchant where he suggests that a wave of development is being pushed through Cobourg Council with my knowledge and complicity, ahead of the election. This is an outright falsehood. It has absolutely zero basis in fact, and I would...
In next week’s Summer Council Meeting to be held on August 26th there are three Notices of Motion put on the agenda by the Mayor. When one reads these it should be obvious to the reader that these are “hot-button” electoral items and ‘red-meat’ for his base. Again these are professionally written and not just...
And adopted a motion that implemented an Interim Control Bylaw (ICBL); it only took 4 hours and 27 minutes. leaving only a few of the previously full audience in the room at the end. I guess most of us had better things to do than watch a meeting, to the end, geared to the defence...
At the BR we are pretty liberal in what we put on our pages, we will print anything that is current, submitted and of interest to the readers. We have received a statement from Mayoralty candidate Max LeMarchant about the post concerning the Interim Control Bylaw. In order to organise content we have set up...
We need Superheroes on Thursday at the Special Council Meeting, Councillors with ‘cajones’ who will not buckle under the threat of the “Ontario Land Tribunal” and be able to see through a motion designed to delay. The motion to be debated on Thursday afternoon will be motion to discuss whether to implement an Interim Control...
Surprise, surprise, surprise! 1210hrs This announcement hit my facebook feed a couple of minutes ago, and now we are waiting, with bated breath, for the Special Meeting agenda to hit the website calendar. The question we have at the BR is simple, can we take this seriously from a Mayor has a record of pushing...
Cobourg has had online voting, in some form or other for many years.This year is different, it is online only. Gone are the paper option and the phone option. Nobody has explained why but we can tell you it is not a good change. When I first entered politics there were over forty polling stations...
In a previous post (read it here) we at the BR posited that an Interim Control Bylaw (ICB) should be put in place to control the development of 202 Second St because of its impact on the Municipal parking situation. Now in the light of three planning applications, each one containing density levels never seen...
A recent email obtained by the BurdReport from one of Cobourg’s candidates for Mayor – Max LaMarchant lays out a compelling case for the sudden rush of Zoning Bylaw Amendments by developers working in Cobourg. Three development applications in three months with a multitude of high-rise buildings that if ever built will change the character...