Tag: vote
Music in the Fields emerging artist winners announced
The fans have spoken. “We received almost 50,000 votes this year,” Cheryl Johnston, marketing director for Lucknow’s Music in the Fields (LMITF), said of the online voting for the James Cameron Memorial Emerging Artist Showdown. “It’s great that these artists have such a following and support behind them for this opportunity.” This year’s voting ended […]
Testy exchanges, walkout as city’s cost-cutting committee begins work
A proposal to cut two popular community grants programs as a tax-saving measure led to some testy exchanges between councillors and frustration from community groups that werenât allowed to be part of the debate.
Farhi bid to move city hall to heart of downtown dismissed
A last-ditch effort to get London city council to consider moving city hall to Dundas and Richmond streets fell flat Tuesday, but not without plenty of discussion. An effort by councillors Peter Cuddy and Susan Stevenson to delay to September consideration of city hall’s plan to redevelop its present home at 300 Dufferin Ave., the […]
Michigan elections FAQ: Can undocumented immigrants vote here? | Bridge Michigan
A reader asks if undocumented immigrants can vote in Michigan elections. Bridge answers as part of our Elections FAQ series….
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.
Legacies live on as Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame reopens at Owen Sound legion Sunday
Music has a funny way of distorting time. When the Ridge River Ramblers started into Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl Sunday afternoon at the grand reopening of the Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame at the Royal Canadian Legion in Owen Sound you could close your eyes and imagine a time before the fire when […]
10 per cent cut to city councillors’ expense limit proposed: ‘Small savings’
Here’s something you don’t see every day â a politician looking for their expense limit to be cut. That’s a suggestion being lofted by Ward 11 Coun. Elizabeth Peloza for a Monday committee meeting, to shave 10 per cent or $1,500 off of the $15,000 limit for council’s regular constituency expenses. City councillors are entitled […]
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
Pearson: Volunteering act of defiance against darkening age
This city’s volunteers and the organizations they assist define London’s endless search for fairness, opportunity, prosperity, and inclusion