As we speculated several months ago would happen, the NDP-leaning labour leadership has actively intervened in the London election.
 
The Canadian Labour Congress and London and District Labour Council are seconding two employees to lobby local union members on behalf of what they call “progressive” candidates.
 
Their professed goal is to help elect a council that will be [...]

I have received more emails, phone calls and comments about the people on the MV Sun Sea than any topic in some time. It is a national story, but it is also as local as it gets because it has the potential to affect every neighbourhood in the country.
If you haven’t heard about the 400-odd [...]

Most London politicians get a little antsy if you bring up the name of Windsor mayor Eddie Francis. His record of several years without municipal tax increases while actually increasing reserve funds makes our local pols very uncomfortable.
“If Windsor can do it, why can’t we?” is a question they don’t like to hear, because there [...]

There is a piece going around on the internet written by an American journalist, Charlie Reese. In it, he wonders why things are the way they are in American politics, and traces the problems – all the problems – to the 544 individuals who make up the Congress and the Supreme Court, plus the President, [...]

In 2003 Eddie Francis was, at 29, the youngest person ever elected mayor of Windsor. During his first two terms he led a successful drive to reduce municipal debt by more than $115 million.
In spite of the decline in city assessment revenues as a result of Windsor’s recession-driven economic crisis (leading to, among other things, [...]