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...
Can you tell the difference?
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....
A view from 30,000ft.
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...
Dirty Politics indeed
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...
Hypocrites To The Core
At the last Cobourg Council Meeting two things happened. Both were pertaining to the issue of homelessness and addiction. the first one: The Task Force on Homelessness is not a County Council committee but a group of local people, from the County, spearheaded by a Councillor from Brighton who was concerned that the issue is a County one. The...
Us against Them!
County Council debated the issue of the County Facility at 310 Division St in Cobourg on October 16th and as usual it was the Mayor of Cobourg against the rest of Council. There are two accounts of the meeting; one written by Cecilia Naismith here and one written by Cobourg News here. To sum up the Mayor of Cobourg and...
Observations
Not much to comment on these days, Thanksgiving has come and gone and we are all thankful for many things, I had a little event that made me thankful for something we take for granted – YouTube. This website has become part of our lives and proves that nothing is unique and what ever has happened to you has happened...
A good start
Yesterday – 11th of October – the Cobourg Police issued a press release read it here. The short version is simple; after a tip in the Summer an investigation was started. Yesterday a combined operation with the Port Hope Police Service and an OPP canine unit dog the Cobourg Police Service picked up a person on Division St. This led...
Pete is Angry
Boy when you have lost Pete Fisher (PF) in the local Police milieu you know that something is wrong in Politics. We know that PF has had his media disputes with the Cobourg Police Services and the Board in the past, mainly because of the lack of details/ disclosure of info in local crime. He has complained/whined about these inactions...
Let the Circus begin
Well here we go again, off to the merger talks. In a Special Council Meeting, Thursday 10th of October, the Mayor of Cobourg Lucas (I have so many ideas) Cleveland will introduce a Notice of Motion that will enable, if passed, the Cobourg Police Services Board to enter into discussions with Port Hope and Hamilton Township to create a “West...
We need a definition
Recently posters on the Cobourg News site have made references to “leftwing radical ideology”. When challenged to define it so the rest of us know what the poster means, by the phrase, the posters ignore the challenge and stay quiet. That leads me to believe that they don’t know what it means but are quite happy to repeat buzzwords and...
Should the Town dole out Community Grants – NO!
Community Grants are anachronisms, designed to make the Citizens think that Council is supporting them. However there are downsides, especially in Cobourg. Firstly the ‘Tax-fighters’ hate them because they despise giving free money away to the detriment of their taxes. Secondly because of the tax-fighter’s influence the amount available for disbursement is paltry, in the big budget, consequently has little...
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