Welcome to the Wasaga Chronicle.
A modern Chronicle of the Town of Wasaga Beach. This archive mainly contains Social Media posts that need to be remembered rather than lost in the chaff.
In Wasaga Beach the news and flow of information is entirely controlled by Mayor Brian Smith and is used to further his own personal agenda. His hand picked council and senior staff ensure his wishes overide the needs and representation of the whole community.
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Transparency 1
Discussion 86 lof 365; Transparency 1- what? why? Well here comes another 4 part series…… Transparency is more than a catch phrase, it should be a basic building block of democracy. Unfortunately, many politicians have lost that perspective. I have found the sheer mountain of articles available on political transparency to be both astounding and enlightening. Jean-Patrick Villeneuve is an associate professor in Public Communication and Management at the University of Lugano, Switzerland. In a recent article, he said; “Governments themselves decide where the boundaries of transparency lie. For instance, they determine what information is classified as sensitive and which public bodies are subject to freedom of information requests. But there are other forces shaping what the public expects to know and how transparent our governments actions truly are. News leaks, open data movements and radical transparency initiatives like WikiLeaks are moving the boundary between what is legal and [...]
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