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On February 21st , Regional Councillor for Grimsby, Tony Quirk engaged the community and public on his Facebook page about the proposed 8-storey Century Condos development in our Downtown. This was prior to the developer’s Open House on March 1st and the Town’s Open House which will be held on March 27th .
The Region recently held a meeting discussing possible changes to media policies and the recent seizure of press equipment. In the incident that involved seizure of media equipment, Grimsby Regional Councillor Quirk says the Region is the victim and did nothing wrong.
For more details, please read the March 6th article in the St. Catharines Standard:
https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news-story/8312515-region-victim-in-press-incident-says-quirk/
The Pelham audit issue is sure to be hot on the agenda on Thursday night’s Regional Council meeting. A Better Niagara provides a little backgrounder to the whole matter in their FB event post.
You can read more here at: https://www.facebook.com/events/169672103667494
PHOTO CREDIT: NIAGARA THIS WEEKAn interesting and thought-provoking opinion piece by James Culic popped up recently in Niagara This Week. He takes a look at the reality of the economic outlook and perhaps arguably a “bubble” that Niagara’s economy is in.
Given the recent release of 20 years of Regional Councillor expenses and the disclosure of the costs in the NPCA’s fruitless case against Ed Smith, it seems that those on Regional Council are keeping tight lipped about how they have been spending your tax dollars.
We came across an interesting opinion piece in Niagara This Week regarding expense accounts, after the Region released 20 years worth of data as we previously posted here.
As the author points out, having one member of Council expensing a $10 ticket for a charitable event is beyond reason.
You can read the full article here: Hide the cookie jar? They’d just expense us for a new one.
With many of us looking forward to the 2018 Municipal Election, we thought we would share this page detailing the last 20 years of “Remuneration and Expenses for Members of Regional Council”.
Here is a recent article from the St. Catharine’s Standard’s “Opinion Column” by Doug Herod which gives a quick overview and a great “take” on the whole NPCA v. Ed Smith SLAPP case.
Photo Credit: St. Catharine’s Standard
As we reported a few weeks ago (here), the Courts dismissed the NPCA’s defamation case against Ed Smith, an outspoken advocate for transparency and good governance. At the time, there had been no ruling in Mr. Smith’s counterclaim against the NPCA and affiliated parties.
If things weren’t already hot at the Region of Niagara HQ over last week’s ejection of a reporter and unlawful seizure of his equipment, local MPP’s of all parties have turned the oven to broil by taking their concerns to Municipal Affairs Minister, Bill Mauro.
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