Tag: power
Task force eyed to set city councillor pay for ‘full time task’
Several familiar city hall arguments resurfaced during a Monday committee meeting, and politicians are seeking to resolve them in a review of their pay. Alongside voting to cut their own expense limit by 10 per cent, councillors revisited the part-time versus full-time council debate, and whether they should be paid more for the committees and […]
Dyer: South Africa may be getting second chance
Cyril Ramaphosa is the president of South Africa again, but everything else is different.
Hamilton takes stranglehold in series, Owen Sound faces elimination
If they’re going down, it will be while hitting, kicking and screaming. The Owen Sound North Stars dropped Game 2 of their first-round best-of-five Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League playoff series 10-4 to the Hamilton Bengals inside the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre Sunday evening. In large part, because of the over 70 minutes in […]
Paulgaard: Local stories, told with integrity, should matter to us all
In small town Alberta where I grew up, it was common to see headlines such as The case of the cow in the second-storey window and Coyote captured in town in the local paper.
Routley: What Toronto byelection means for Justin Trudeau
Polls showing a narrow lead Liberal lead in a June 24 byelection show the extent of the Liberal government’s increasing unpopularity