Rethinking citizen engagement in Peterborough will ‘knock your socks off’ Peterborough This Week February 3 2016 One of Canada’s leading voices for citizen engagement and new approaches to planning is coming to Peterborough on Feb. 10, as guest speaker and “provocateur” at two events hosted by local ...
Working group of Golden Horseshoe councillors wants to deal proactively with development industry, Ontario Municipal Board By Tim Kelly Aurora Banner A number of local elected officials want a straight answer to a simple question: why aren’t their Official Plans worth the paper they’re pr...
From Campaign Fairness What: Lessons from the trenches of municipal election campaigns – for fair campaign finance laws for Ontario municipalities. When: Thursday March 3, 2016, 3-5pm Where: The Box, 89 Niagara Street, at King and Bathurst, Toronto, Ontario Who: the Panel -Vaughan MP Deb Schult...
Bifolchi opposes controversial Bonnie Smith amendments By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Controversial changes to Wasaga Beach’s code of conduct for municipal politicians have been pushed through. Council had already been handed some proposed changes for the code of conduct by its recently-appointed integrity ...
By Frank Matys Orillia Today January 22 2016 Oro-Medonte council wants greater leeway to recoup costs from residents who lodge freedom of information requests – a move critics say would discourage residents from digging into township matters. Last year, the township incurred close to $60,000 in costs...
By Dave Dawson, Orillia Packet & Times It’s never easy to acknowledge failure and it can be especially difficult to do so when you operate in the public realm. But that is what Ramara Township did last year when its council sanctioned, supported and paid for an outside review of the municipal ope...
The news, revealed by Martin Regg Cohn in the Toronto Star last week – that provincial cabinet ministers are assigned fundraising quotas, and are in trouble if they don’t rake in enough money for the Ontario Liberal Party – was very shocking. It showed how much the representative system of democracy ...
By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times Sixteen recommendations have been presented to Ramara Township council and staff as ways to eliminate the “toxic” culture within the municipal offices. The organization and service-delivery review, prepared by John Whitesell, of Whitesell a...
By Travis Mealing Midland Mirror PENETANGUISHENE – Penetanguishene Mayor Gerry Marshall sent an open letter to the media Tuesday to “calm the waters” amidst what he described as unwarranted speculation about amalgamation. The mayor acknowledged the chatter has been fuelled by his town’s joint transit...
From OurMidland.ca In his latest communique to the public and after, what can only be presumed to have been some unpleasant feedback from constituents, Penetanguishene’s Mayor Gerry Marshall authored the following open letter about his vision for shared services. As no emails to him are ever an...
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