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Number 94. The good news: we're not New Glasgow

04 April 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood life, Social values, Collingwood's municipal m...
Five years ago, Collingwood was listed as the 11th best place in Canada to live. The ten top spots were all taken by cities, making Collingwood the number one town in Canada to live.

Today, in 2011, Moneysense magazine ranks us 94th out of 180 towns and cities, not even in the top half. And some of our ratings are even lower than that: affordable...

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A twist in the Simcoe-Grey campaigns

02 April 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Federal follies
The election campaign in Simcoe-Grey will likely go to the Conservative candidate, but that victory is not quite so cut and dried as it might have seemed. Incumbent and former Conservative party member, now "independent Conservative" candidate, Helena Guergis, might have some outside help that will certainly raise her profile and could...

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Tags: federal election, Helena Guergis, Conservatives 5 Comments


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Dear Conservative...

24 March 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood's municipal m..., Collingwood life
Dear Conservative. That's how the recent email messages from candidate and former mayor Chris Carrier begin, as they launch into the fine art of self-promotion, a craft that skillfully blends - and bends - truth and fiction. To date I've been the recipient of four of these epistles, somewhat surprising because I must surely rank among the...

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The Mayans were right!

12 February 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Politics outside Canada, Humour, Uncategorized
Apparently the world WILL end in 2012, as some folks claim the Mayans predicted.* Well, at least common sense, wisdom, intelligence and likely many freedoms will end, if not necessarily all life as we know it.

Why? Because it seems Sarah Palin - the dimwit who ran for vice president against Obama in 2008 - seems to be planning to run for...

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Gutting the committee structure

03 February 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood's municipal m...
The way it's supposed to work: council creates policy. Staff implements it.

The way it happened Monday night: staff created policy, council approved it.

The policy in question was to decide for council, and the community at large, what committees and boards should be dissolved, and which should survive. Staff created the list of which...

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An unfortunate decision

01 February 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Collingwood's municipal m...
Last night Collingwood Council made a decision that will fundamentally change the way council works with the public, tilt the axis of policy making away from council to staff, and further isolate council from residents.

Based solely on a staff recommendation (from a report that council did not request), five committees were dissolved without a...

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Tags: Collingwood's Municipal Madness 1 Comments


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Community, culture and Collingwood's future

30 January 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in art, culture and reviews, Music and ukuleles, Collingwood life, Collingwood's municipal m...
There's an old joke that goes, "What's the difference between (insert a city name here) and a cup of yogurt?" The answer is, of course, that a cup of yogurt has culture. I first heard this with Calgary as the city, back when I lived in Banff. Not very flattering, of course.

Collingwood, on the other hand, has oodles of culture....

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Tags: events, Collingw, Collingwood's Municipal Madness, art, culture 3 Comments


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Music and demographics

26 January 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Personal reminisence, Music and ukuleles, art, culture and reviews
ACCORDING TO THE 2006 CENSUS, the average age in Collingwood is 46. Almost 30% of residents are between 45 and 64, and just over 22% are 65 and over. More than half the local population in Simcoe County is older than 45.* That means we are locally, on average, a greying population.

So why do some local radio stations play music aimed at the...

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Amazing accomplishments

21 January 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Federal follies, Collingwood's municipal m..., Collingwood life
ALTHOUGH I'VE BEEN A WRITER all my adult life, I have never been very good at writing fiction. I've tried. I've tried many times. I've read and studied fiction, taken courses, joined writing associations. I just don't seem to have the knack.

The writer of...

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Tequila show on The Wine Ladies

20 January 2011
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Tequila, mezcal and Mexico
This is link to a show I did for Internet TV's show The Wine Ladies, last week, all about tequila. The production house and studio is That Channel, at Bay & Dundas, in Toronto. Funky little place where they produce a lot of neat local...

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