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New blog coming soon

29 October 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood life, technology
Update: new blog has been started here: www.ianchadwick.com/blog.

I've been tinkering with Wordpress as a new blog platform for the past week, trying out its features and layout options. very nice. Flexible, powerful and a lot more social media strength than my current package. I have watched...

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What's wrong with Collingsaga?

19 October 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Collingwood's municipal m...
This week, Collingwood Council unanimously approved the name "Beachwood" for a section of Highway 26 that runs through our town. The Ministry of Transport asked Collingwood and Wasaga Beach to come up with a name for the old highway that is being paralleled by the "realignment" currently under...

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Latest blog for Huff Post

12 October 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Pointless legislation, Provincial folly, Municipal governance
I'm blogging sporadically for the Huffington Post these days. So far all about municipal issues. Roughly once a week. Here's my latest effort:
www.huffingtonpost.ca/ian-chadwick/municipal-bonusing_b_999666.html
You can link from there to my previous posts as...

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Back from England

02 October 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence
Spent the past two weeks in and around London, England, on my first vacation to that country. Visited a lot of fascinating places, mostly historical, others more contemporary: museums, historic homes and castles, great parks. And a few pubs.

First impression: Britons have manners. Everyone still says please and thanks. Even people leaving the...

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Jesse James, myth-making and pop culture

10 September 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in What I'm reading now, Book & film reviews, Social values
In the 2007 movie, The Assassination of Jesse James, we get to see a nascent American pop culture in a collision between its pop star (James) and a displaced fan (Ford), in an episode eerily similar to the fatal collision of John Lennon and Mark David Chapman. The difference, aside from the century between events, is that, for a while anyway, Ford...

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Election Raises Concerns for Ontario's Municipalities

01 September 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Provincial folly, Social values, Collingwood's municipal m...
Two questions about the aftermath of the upcoming provincial election are on the minds of councillors in most of Ontario’s municipalities: will there be downloading? And will there be another round of infrastructure funding?

Downloading provincial services onto municipalities was done under Conservative Premier Mike Harris in the late...

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Rising municipal insurance costs a concern

30 August 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Collingwood's municipal m...
AMO - the Association of Municipalities of Ontario - just released the results of a comprehensive survey of municipal insurance costs across Ontario. Just like your personal insurance, the costs keep escalating, and it's you, the taxpayers, who pay these spiralling premiums. You're getting hit by a double whammy: home and town insurance.

Since...

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Not much change promised for Ontario's municipalities this election

26 August 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Federal follies, Provincial folly, Social values, Collingwood's municipal m...
Ontario’s provincial leaders are promising a lot this election. It’s what they’re not promising that is more troubling to me.

I listened to the leaders of the three parties speak at the AMO convention this week, and heard a lot of promises, a lot of justification, some blame, some excuses and some puffery. But for everything we're...

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A reflection on AMO's 2011 convention

25 August 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in What I'm reading now, Provincial folly, Collingwood's municipal m...
Spent most of this week at the annual AMO (Association of Municipalities of Ontario) convention. This year it was held in London, ON, and around 2,600 municipal politicians and staff from across the province attended. As always, it's a combination of information, networking, schmoozing, politics, workshops and ideas. I've always enjoyed...

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Simcoe County to consider rail line acquisition

08 August 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Social values, Collingwood's municipal m...
The Barrie-Collingwood Railway (BCRY) may have a little more life left in it. There's a motion on the agenda for the County of Simcoe's Planning and Economic Development committee for its August 10th meeting that reads:

RECOMMENDATION:
THAT staff be authorized to enter into discussions with the Town of Collingwood to acquire the Town’s...

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Tags: Simcoe County, Collingwood, rail line 2 Comments



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