Rothenburger

EDITOR – Tax exemptions for developers won’t solve housing crunch

April 4, 2024 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DEVELOPMENT COST CHARGES don’t make for exciting reading. In fact, a lot of people probably don’t even know what they are, but they go [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Please, let’s let the Byron McCorkell episode go away now

April 3, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE BYRON McCORKELL affair is over. Let it stay that way. Acting CAO McCorkell was suspended from his job, then he was re-instated. Let it [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Why I won’t be in any convoys protesting the carbon tax

March 30, 2024 // 6 Comments

THE CARBON TAX hasn’t changed my life. I don’t drive less because of it. Yet, I support this tax because I’m an environmentalist at heart and worry about climate [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How the handling of the McCorkell suspension was botched

March 29, 2024 // 8 Comments

I’M STILL PERPLEXED about a few things surrounding the Byron McCorkell saga. Last evening’s announcement by councillors that they had, by a vote of 8-0, re-instated [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Outcome of suspension should have been easy to predict

March 28, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE LATEST BIT of turmoil at City Hall was always bound to end badly. When Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson suspended acting CAO Byron McCorkell on [Continue]

EDITORIAL – TRU’s claims about transparency aren’t convincing

March 27, 2024 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A LITTLE MORE than a year ago, TRU was in the midst of a major controversy over allegations made against two of its senior [Continue]