[color="#000000"][color="#000000"][size="2"
]Get over it. That's what Councillor Labelle wrote to me in an email when I recently suggested council might allow patios to open beside the buildings for the Elvis Festival, to let the restaurants capitalize on the crush of visitors this...
6
I had to wonder whether some of council's sudden outpouring of concern for the extra costs borne by retaillers and restaurateurs over the new licence fees was really a genuine turn-around show of empathy for them, or just electioneering in face of growing public dissatisfaction over this...
I was more than a little surprised on Monday to hear Councillor Jeffrey comment that, if restaurant owners put their application in right away, they were very likely to get liquor licences from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission (AGCO) in time for the Elvis Festival, next weekend. Assuming, that is, they wanted to move, or could afford the curbside...
Scoop and I enjoyed a little act of civil disobedience, Saturday morning, as we drank a hot beverage at a table on the main street sidewalk that was clearly not within either the strictly approved and restricted sidewalk patio or sidewalk café zones.
Hasta...
Remember back in 2007 when the consultant who prepared our commercial review told us this area (our town, our neighbours and our visitors) could easily support another 500-600,000 sq. feet of commercial sprawl development on the west edge of town? And the majority of council nodded their heads in agreement like dashboard bobbin heads?
I...
I...
I attended the grand opening of the Collingwood Public Library, noon, Thursday, May 27, just before I drove t the FCM convention. It was a glorious day, and not merely for the weather, but because it was the culmination of years of effort by library boards, ongoing ever since I was first appointed to the board, back in 1991. All of the years of...
I just returned from a few days in Toronto, attending the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) annual convention. Picked up a lot of good ideas (especially around open government and open data) and information, which I'll post at a later point. What I wanted to write about here is how the host city handles its downtown and its patios,...
Construction proceeds apace downtown. Susan and I walked downtown (with Sophie) early Saturday to see how the newly-re-opened first block looked, do a little local shopping, and to gander at the farmers' market on its first open weekend (and buy a few odds and ends there, and downtown, too).*...
[size="2"][size="2"]It's frustrating when we have a public meeting about an important, new bylaw and it's evident from the discussion that no one else at the table actually read the thing. Councillor McNabb had no idea there even was one, and even had to get up in the middle of the meeting to go outside to look for a...
I protested in the open session of council about the appropriateness of...
Latest Entries
Latest Comments
Daily chess puzzle
Source:
Shredderchess.com
Search My Blog
Word of the day
Latest Visitors
-
cavediver15 Dec 2012 - 12:11 -
scout07 Sep 2012 - 16:55
-
eplace09 Jul 2012 - 18:40
-
panchovilla7805 Jul 2012 - 16:10
-
CigarDawg16 Apr 2012 - 16:31
-
fugawibill09 Mar 2012 - 00:37
-
rubenoff09 Jan 2012 - 20:05
Mumpsimus Links
Chadwick's web sites:
Tequila
Henry Hudson
Ukulele Reviews
Vintage uke music
Motorcycles
Harmonica Reviews
Home Page
Blue Agave Forum
Local:
East End Underground
Christine Cowley
Enterprise-Bulletin
Collingwood Connection
Town of Collingwood
Collingwood Utility Services
Weather cams
Rick Crouch
My Collingwood.ca
News:
Bourque's Headlines
CBC News
BBC News
Reuters
Inter Press Service
United Nations News
CPAC News
The Hill Times
Newseum Front Pages
Science and space:
Space Weather
The Scientist
Science Daily
Science News
Paleontology News
Environment News
Mathematics News
Discover Magazine
Scientific American News
Nature Magazine
Space News
Universe Today
NASA
European Space Agency
Space Daily
Darwin/Evolution/Skeptics:
Skeptic North
Charles Darwin Online
Richard Dawkins
The Skeptics Society
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Carl Sagan
Secular Web - Infidels.org
Talkorigins.org
The Panda's Thumb
Other sites:
Chess.com
National Citizens' Coalition
Canadian Taxpayers' Federation
Democracy Watch
This Week in Chess
Chess Cafe daily news
Ukulele Underground
LifeGems Personal Histories
~~~~~
Tequila
Henry Hudson
Ukulele Reviews
Vintage uke music
Motorcycles
Harmonica Reviews
Home Page
Blue Agave Forum
Local:
East End Underground
Christine Cowley
Enterprise-Bulletin
Collingwood Connection
Town of Collingwood
Collingwood Utility Services
Weather cams
Rick Crouch
My Collingwood.ca
News:
Bourque's Headlines
CBC News
BBC News
Reuters
Inter Press Service
United Nations News
CPAC News
The Hill Times
Newseum Front Pages
Science and space:
Space Weather
The Scientist
Science Daily
Science News
Paleontology News
Environment News
Mathematics News
Discover Magazine
Scientific American News
Nature Magazine
Space News
Universe Today
NASA
European Space Agency
Space Daily
Darwin/Evolution/Skeptics:
Skeptic North
Charles Darwin Online
Richard Dawkins
The Skeptics Society
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Carl Sagan
Secular Web - Infidels.org
Talkorigins.org
The Panda's Thumb
Other sites:
Chess.com
National Citizens' Coalition
Canadian Taxpayers' Federation
Democracy Watch
This Week in Chess
Chess Cafe daily news
Ukulele Underground
LifeGems Personal Histories
~~~~~
