The Message Issues Forth!! n 2025 I believe that people are generally accustomed to the notion that their privacy and ability to stay secluded, at least in the virtual sense, has largely disappeared. With AI and the algorithms of covert data collection, people are used to the rather repugnant notion that hidden entities are massing information about them, including how they tend to think and react under a whole spectrum of circumstances. However, such a perception is relative

Surveys, which have lately become a very popular mechanism for collecting data and reflecting the public will, are dangerous vehicles when they are carelessly conceived or inexpertly constructed. Indeed, it is not only lack of the necessary competence that can turn a survey from a useful expression of the popular voice to a deliberately misleading reflection of special interests or private biases. Crafted with questions that lead to predetermined or desired outcomes – “direct

The role of populist crusading victim has served Meed Ward well over the years. It has allowed her to mask her rather shallow grasp of the duties of civic governance and stewardship behind a curtain of aggrieved indignation. I find it very difficult to give any credence to her movement demanding respect for politicians. It is the latest of her self-promoting clarion calls. I have great respect for some politicians - Obama (both), Stephen Lewis, Lester Pearson, Bill Davis, P

I completely and emphatically disagree with anyone who promotes the Burlington Council's Food for Feedback event. First, it is a highly...

“During an interview in 1010 Newstalk Mayor Meed Ward explained what she thought was happening: I think people got used to being keyboard...

Non-ideological, ‘ad hoc’, local action groups form initially around common interests or, quite often, around shared areas of discontent...

Imagine that you have hired someone to mow your lawn, tend your garden, do your taxes, shovel your snow, prune your trees, provide...

There is an old adage that it is “frequently better to be lucky than good”. And it is arguably a concept to which Meed Ward would...

We all realize that speaking to a politician can be a risky business. It can lead to a wasteland of confusion or a never Neverland of...

I recently had the questionable pleasure of entering into a dialogue with several people (a man from Brant Hills and a woman from Headon...

When the Mayor declined my offer to debate, her staff very politely offered to address any questions that I might have. Since I did have...

Feeling in a particularly prankish mood, I thought that it would be interesting to challenge our Mayor, Marianne Meed Ward, to an...

I have become somewhat sceptical concerning how Burlington citizens appear to be accepting a series of events and disclosures that,...

When I read the announcement that Natalie Pierre would run again for Burlington MPP, my first and very uncharitable thought, was that to...

What I have observed since the Meed Ward administration took office is that communications are very cunningly and adroitly handled. Only...

I am no fan of the Ford Government and do believe that the Provincial Auditor’s blunt comments have been proven to be true, time and...

The City of Burlington website is something that is so dysfunctional that requests for further funding for enhancements should be greeted...

The following article appeared today in the Burlington Gazette. https://burlingtongazette.ca/xenophobia-a-dislike-of-or-prejudice-against...

I made the following comment to a recent Burlington Gazette article. https://burlingtongazette.ca/another-1-6-million-expense-spread-over...

Good Morning. I didn’t intend to delegate today but, apparently, it’s required in order to introduce our petition. We have over xxx...