Well, there have been no City Hall meetings to speak of in this election week but on the big night itself shortly after 10 p.m. I did cycle over to City Hall’s great white elephant of an anteroom, Centennial Hall, to watch the election winners and their supporters drift in for a little hullabaloo.
I haven’t [...]

With this issue the first incarnation of The Voice of London wraps up. We came online (and into your email box) the first Friday in March and except for one week’s holiday in the summer, we have faithfully returned every Friday since, bringing you coverage and commentary on the local political scene that has been [...]

Defeated incumbent Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best scrubbed all of her slated media interviews on the morning after the election that brought her ten-year run as Mayor to a close. Granted, it would be a sad and boring undertaking to separately answer a dozen different reporters’ question about what she’s going to do now and she [...]

As the Environment and Transportation Committee were once again preoccupied with hearing appeals from London dog owners ticked off that their ever-so-friendly ‘poochums’ had been hit with orders to wear muzzles when out in public (orders that in my experience are not handed out willy-nilly or without just cause) I headed down the hall to [...]

For this final pre-election Councillors and Contenders and Commentators profile, The Voice of London sought out Gordon MacKenzie, a community leader whose love for this City and profound financial know-how embody the two characteristics we would most like to see in our elected representatives.
“I was born and raised in Montreal. I worked for the Royal [...]