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Santa Claus parade highlights council dysfunction

07 December 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]I participated in the annual Santa Claus parade through downtown Collingwood, yesterday. It was a good event this year - a huge number of floats, great weather, and the streets lined for block after block with people...

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Tags: dysfunction, council, mayor, municipal madness, Collingwood, Santa Claus 2 Comments


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Six hours, patios and procedural morass

01 December 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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[size="4"][b]Six gruelling...

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Tags: municipal madness, procedural bylaw, mayor, Collingwood, council, heritage park, downtown, patios 4 Comments


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Downsizing council versus democracy

28 November 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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This week it was my turn to get a piece in the Enterprise Bulletin as the guest council columnist. Imagine that: me writing for the EB again! Well, it wasn't a paid contribution, just an...

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Tags: participation, Collingwood, mayor, municipal madness, council, democracy 0 Comments


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Five hours at council again

24 November 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]Almost five hours last night. More than half of it spent in-camera, wrangling over issues that really didn't deserve that amount of time in debate. Issues that were, for the most part, not new, merely continuation of outstanding affairs. But we all have to have our say. Some us have to have it a few times...

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Tags: in camera, council, mayor, municipal madness, Collingwood, sustainability 0 Comments


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Shortest council meeting?

17 November 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
[indent]Six thirty. That's when last night's council meeting ended. Shortest meeting I can recall this term - 90 minutes. Almost a breeze.

Ninety per cent of the meeting was simply a continuation of Thursday's six-hour planning/zoning bylaw marathon. That means the main topic under discussion -...

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Tags: council, mayor, municipal madness, Collingwood, shortest 0 Comments


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The turn of the screw?

30 October 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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My, oh, my. Was I surprised when I read...

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Tags: McNabb, Collingwood, election, municipal madness, mayor, council 0 Comments


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Stalemate over Cranberry

22 October 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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It seemed such a simple thing....

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Tags: Cranberry Resort, liquor licence, municipal madness, council, Collingwood 6 Comments


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Six hours at the table. Again.

06 October 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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Another six-hour council marathon last night. And even with that amount of time, by the end of the night we still had not covered everything on the agenda. We...

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Tags: municipal madness, effectiveness, meeting, council, Collingwood 3 Comments



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