This month, Elgin County provided their proposed Transportation Master Plan for our feedback. There are elements that are good, bad, and, honestly, complicated. So what are the most useful parts to know about?
Tonight, Council will consider two related items: an update to our municipal website and a proposed corporate rebrand. I’m fully
Ontario’s new Water and Wastewater Public Corporations Act could change who controls our water and how rates are set.
This same bill already changed once after public pushback on rent increase rules.
Before anything else moves forward, let’s understand what’s at stake.
What retired wardens, current mayors, and local leaders reveal about the past, present, and future of political civility.
The Great Lakes Coastal Cleanup program brings municipalities together to clean up beaches, rivers, and shoreline areas on World Rivers Day, helping protect our shared freshwater ecosystem.
Making decisions that are right for everybody can be difficult when councillors are most intimately familiar with the wants and needs on our home turf. Going out to town hall events in other wards has been a great experience for me – an opportunity to gain deeper insight into the concerns in the neighbourhoods farther afield than Union and Sparta.
Integrity isn’t about avoiding discomfort—it’s about facing it. In my response to the Integrity Commissioner’s report, I share why I stand by my questions and how council can strengthen trust moving forward.
WHEREAS growth is ongoing both in Port Stanley and along the Sunset Rd. corridor; AND WHEREAS further growth is anticipated
WHEREAS a lack of formal council direction may lead to misinterpretation of individual remarks as representative of the municipality as a whole;
Bill 9 addresses what municipalities have long known: without consistent rules and enforceable consequences, codes of conduct aren’t much more than symbolic. The proposed changes would give Integrity Commissioners more teeth for …