Senator Hargrove strikes out

Poor Senator Hargrove (Buzz), first he has to be expelled from the ONDP for supporting another political party and now he is seen as the boy who takes his ball home because he can't play! As President of the CAW he watches as his appointees and sycophants now tell the NDP to get stuffed. What these people fail to understand is that most of their members vote for other parties and now that the Election Financing Act has stopped unions from contributing more than $5,000 a year - their influence is zilch.

Let them go I say, the CAW's political action has been a joke for years. Thin-skinned and pompous these guys want their way every opportunity they can get it. It's been a royal pain in the butt catering to these prima donnas - let them go and watch them flail in the political wilderness.

What the **** is going on

The Seniors centre is going from the ridiculous to the sublime. The esteemed councillor who is in charge? is now saying that the operating costs of the centre are going to be $155,000 a year and the centre will be self sustaining in three years, just who the **** is going to pay for it until then - the bloody taxpayers that's who!! This is the stuff of revolution!

Three tax points a year to build the place and then 1.5 tax points for two years to run it, that's disgraceful. And what is this Lifestyle council sounds like a bunch of bureaucratese designed to sound good but what's the cost of that and who's going to in it? These places don't run themselves, is the cost of staff in the $155,000?

Revamped page

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What a week

I have been contacted by several people apalled at the news that taxes are rising faster then they can handle them. "What can we do?" they ask. Not much apparently as the local Council are determined to do what they want to do as opposed to listening. The great example is the proposed Seniors' Centre. Designed to give the older adults more play space at public expense. I say if they want a specific building let them pay for it. On the other hand if Council wished to rationalise recreational opportunities and put them in a multi-use facility we can pay for it. But! only after public input and full disclosure about the annual operating costs and who will pay for them.

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