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When "Next Door" Is Too Close By Half!!
I recently had the questionable pleasure of entering into a dialogue with several people (a man from Brant Hills and a woman from Headon...
kblairsmith
Feb 62 min read
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We May Not Be Prepared To Talk - But We Can Deflect, Arabesque and Spin
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...
kblairsmith
Feb 610 min read
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Can We Talk?
Feeling in a particularly prankish mood, I thought that it would be interesting to challenge our Mayor, Marianne Meed Ward, to an...
kblairsmith
Jan 154 min read
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When the Monkeys Design The Barrel
I have become somewhat sceptical concerning how Burlington citizens appear to be accepting a series of events and disclosures that,...
kblairsmith
Jan 103 min read
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And Time Will Tell ...
When I read the announcement that Natalie Pierre would run again for Burlington MPP, my first and very uncharitable thought, was that to...
kblairsmith
Dec 22, 20242 min read
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And The Circle Tightens
One of the things that you spend a great deal of time doing as you get older is pondering; thinking of all manner of things that were...
kblairsmith
Dec 22, 20242 min read
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What A Piece Of Work Is This Woman
What I have observed since the Meed Ward administration took office is that communications are very cunningly and adroitly handled. Only...
kblairsmith
Dec 13, 20243 min read
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I'm Not There To Help You
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...
kblairsmith
Dec 9, 20243 min read
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A Web to Weave
The City of Burlington website is something that is so dysfunctional that requests for further funding for enhancements should be greeted...
kblairsmith
Nov 23, 20242 min read
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The Brink
I was asked to write a personal perspective on how we came to this dreadful pass. Just a few days before the American Presidential...
kblairsmith
Nov 2, 20244 min read
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The More Things are the Same, The More They Want To Be Different
It seems to take a fair amount to get people in Burlington excited. It happened in 2018 when the current Mayor and Council were first...
kblairsmith
Oct 31, 20243 min read
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The Great Migration
I have turned a small bedroom on the top floor of the house into another library – an annex to the main library downstairs. I still don’t...
kblairsmith
Oct 16, 20241 min read
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Xeno What???
The following article appeared today in the Burlington Gazette. https://burlingtongazette.ca/xenophobia-a-dislike-of-or-prejudice-against...
kblairsmith
Sep 20, 20241 min read
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kblairsmith
Sep 13, 20240 min read
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But You Need To Give People A Place To Go ...
Non-ideological, ‘ad hoc’, local action groups form around common interests or, quite often, around shared areas of discontent and...
kblairsmith
Sep 12, 20243 min read
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Sole is Sinful
I made the following comment to a recent Burlington Gazette article. https://burlingtongazette.ca/another-1-6-million-expense-spread-over...
kblairsmith
Sep 8, 20242 min read
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What is a Neighbourhood?
I have just experienced a rather interesting phenomenon; I started this article with one very definite perspective but, in the process of...
kblairsmith
Sep 6, 20243 min read
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kblairsmith
Sep 2, 20240 min read
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Open Government ... What a Concept!
The following piece was developed as a ‘press communiqué’ for the 2018 mayoral campaign of a local politician. It highlights, in very...
kblairsmith
Sep 2, 20245 min read
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Hang On .... etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbZq5idUJcI And perhaps the sexiest dance of the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SywaUbg5wU What...
kblairsmith
Sep 1, 20241 min read
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