What can we do about all of the lies and deceit being displayed by our elected officials? There are a few choices; Go to the integrity Commisioner, go to the Ombudsman’s office or, ask those lying. Lies are told by some people all of the time. However, when elected officials knowingly condone those lies, they may as well [...]

Affordable housing. This is an interesting topic and just like health care, it is not our (the municipalities) jurisdiction. However there are plenty of things that can be changed. Several times a year we hear the debate about hotels and the condition of our present short term accommodation inventory. What does that have to do with affordable housing? [...]

  First it is important to understand that in most other communities, the physicians in those communities often partner up and open private clinics. These are physician operated and they bill directly to OHIP. In our area the majority of physicians are part of an organization known as the Family Health Organization or FHO. New physicians, or seasoned [...]

Yesterday, we discussed the BB attacks of the SCDSB and the history of our Mayor and CAO destroying important relationships. Apparently it is not isolated to the School boards. For years, the Mayors and CAO’s of five communities have gathered to talk about what’s going on in their community and explore possible collaborations or share ideas. I have [...]

Today’s discussion is a continuation of yesterday’s talk about scheduling and process. About a month ago, the private political group, “Wasaga Beach Ratepayers Association” (not the original Facebook group, but the one started by Councilor Fay Ego and others) had their AGM. This AGM, apparently had all members of The Wasaga Beach Council present. It was almost like a [...]

According to Google; “The consent agenda is a tool used to streamline meeting procedures by collecting routine, non-controversial items into a group whereby all are passed with a single motion and vote. This method has grown in popularity in recent years and there are many variations on the theme to meet specific needs.” I believe Wasaga Beach introduced consent [...]

Should the law in Ontario be changed so that those seeking to run for office must “live” in the community they want to preside over? In Wasaga Beach, our current Mayor ran an election campaign that included a series of videos where he constantly referred to his “home”, his neighbours and generally portraying an image that he grew [...]

Although I do not read the Beach Booster Newsletter due to its incredible bias, I do get asked to review articles occasionally. I guess it’s a good thing School Boards typically just plow forward doing what they have learned is best for our students through the years. If they bowed to municipal pressures or bullies, where would it end? [...]

Discussion 4/365 It started with online mentions of shredding trucks, grew from that to expensive investigations and eventually a media circus saying wrongdoing “may” have occurred. From there, the accusations online from those perpetuating the lies kept growing. The carefully crafted releases from the town that included the subtle “May” qualifier, were replaced with vicious attacks from fake identities [...]