Out with the Old
Our leading English language daily newspaper noted this week that the retiring city council members (Cheryl Miller, Bernie MacDonald, Susan Eagle, Roger Caranci, Gord Hume, and Tom Gosnell) will take with them an even 100 years of experience, and suggested rather strongly that this was somehow a bad thing.
The reality is that experience may be [...]
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Hermaneutics
IT’S WAY PAST TIME FOR EAST LONDON TO CATCH A BREAK
I thoroughly enjoyed my interview this week with Ward Four contender, Greg Thompson. He’s a wonderfully straight-ahead guy who’s been working hard for ten years in the volunteer anterooms of civic politics to get a few breaks for a section of this town that always seems to get short-changed and dumped on. I’m delighted at [...]
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Mr. Goodden Goes to City Hall
August 30, 2010 meeting of City Council
The big bombshell of the night was dropped almost straightaway as Councillors stood up to declare upcoming matters they wouldn’t be speaking to because of pecuniary interest when Ward Three Councillor Bernie MacDonald instead rose to announce, “I’ll be withdrawing my name from the election.”
The stunned silence that followed this announcement was broken by Mayor [...]
QUICK TAKES
QUICK TAKES – SEPTEMBER 3, 2010BERNIE BOWS OUT
CHAPMAN BASHING, DOWN THE 401
AN INTERESTING MAN
[continue reading...]Councillors and Contenders
Greg Thompson, Contender for Ward FourBorn and raised in London for his first eight years, Greg Thompson moved to Woodstock where his mother was a major player in that town’s United Way campaign and his father was a long-serving trustee for the Separate School Board, giving him an early grounding in municipal politics and how they work. He studied economics [...]
[continue reading...]Councillors and Contenders II
A NEW APPROACH TO MEETING THE CANDIDATESLong-time London musician, political activist and current CHRW radio host Kevin Dunklee has come up with a new twist on “meet the candidates”.
Kevin’s radio program is called “Rhapsody At Noon” and is heard Tuesdays from noon to 1:30 on 94.9 FM.
Normally a jazz show, Kevin has arranged for several of the candidates for mayor to [...]
