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AJAX – City council reluctant to keep poking the bear on mine proposal

August 29, 2017 // 7 Comments

City council decided not to poke the Ajax bear any further, though there was lively disagreement at Tuesday’s regular meeting (Aug. 29, 2017) on whether more poking is [Continue]

PULSE OF THE NATION – Removal of John A. from schools firmly opposed

August 29, 2017 // 4 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE A call from the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario to remove the name of Canada’s first prime minister from public schools because of his [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Is anyone surprised the patient-care tower is going ahead?

August 29, 2017 // 2 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HEATH MINISTER Adrian Dix’s announcement Monday that the Royal Inland Hospital patient care tower will go ahead as [Continue]

GINTA – Why we need to talk about salmon, and soon

August 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

IT HAPPENED during the eclipse that more than 300,000 Atlantic salmon escaped from a U.S. fish farm in the San Juan Islands. They are now found in the coastal waters of [Continue]

MEDIA – Finding salvation in the ashes of the daily newspaper business

August 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

By PETER MENZIES SOMETIME in the not-too-distant future, the nation’s largest media chain is expected to fail, taking many of the nation’s once proud but now emaciated [Continue]

COLLINS – Is removing bridge tolls the best way to go?

August 28, 2017 // 2 Comments

THE NDP GOVERNMENT this week announced it was going to eliminate tolls on the Port Mann and the Golden Ears bridges. It’s probably the first of many decisions the NDP [Continue]