Congratulations to all of the candidates – you earned it. Even if you didn’t win you were still winners for trying! So reflections on the results of Cobourg’s Municipal election. First of all what took so long to get the results. An hour to read the computers? There must be a better explanation than none. ...
Category: opinion-local
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Election Day!
All we can say is it couldn’t have come a day sooner. The amount of BS and vitriol was amazing. Not to be unexpected as the coarsening of public discourse has been getting greater by the day in the last twelve years. The “Trump Effect” where the opening of the flood-gates in Racism, Islamophobia and...
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Six days left
So what are the impressions so far? About 10% have voted and some will never vote and the others are waiting for something to inspire them to vote. The campaign so far has been brutal, fueled by Social Media. We have been deluged by ardent supporters of the mayor and their stridency, videos of the...
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This is going to be a Huuuuge waste of money!
A couple of days ago the Town was served with notice that the opening stage of the OLT appeal about the Town’s approach to the proposal that appeared in a public meeting on July 22nd 2026. At that meeting the proposal at 202 Second St. was presented to the public. It was resoundingly rejected by...
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An expensive folly
We are referring to the start of the defence of the 202 Second St. decision at the Ontario Lands Tribunal. A copy of the letter of the first phase of the process was delivered a couple of days ago – thanks to the whistleblower who put it on Social Media yesterday. Click here for the...
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Well we watched it!
The local Mayoralty Debate held on Thursday 15th 2026 at the Lions Centre. First of all a huge shoutout to the organisers, well done for the setup the moderation and the consolidation of many questions. For a ‘Town Hall’ meeting set in 2026 it performed well. Our preference for the meeting would have been different...
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Well it’s down to “Who do I like best?”
In the “Councillors” debate watch here twelve candidates appeared on stage to tell us all what they thought about the future of Cobourg and what they want to do, if elected, for the next four years. With an opening statement and answers to about four or five questions we found out a couple of things: All...
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We need to take a shower!
After watching the Special Meeting of Council on October 13th. 2hrs 40 minutes of the, as one Councillor described it, “Your dog and pony show” referencing the man in the chair. Mr. Cleveland the candidate being Mayor or was it Mayor Cleveland just being a supercilious, smarmy, trying to be clever Chair of the Council....
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Mr. Cleveland is campaigning again from the Chair! This time it is Toxic
Which Cleveland will we see on Tuesday evening in the Council chamber? The magisterial persona of an experienced and mature Mayor or the rabid protestations of a Mayoral candidate trying to prove a point – that is that he is the only person who knows what went on in the Town’s transfer of Treasurers in...
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A job well done
If you can’t laugh at yourself sometimes you are in bad shape, this is one of those times. First of all if this jpeg is designed to humiliate or make us feel bad you have lost. This is a very clever post and it made us giggle. We are in admiration for the content but...