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Category Archives: Journalism
Planning bonuses benefit developers, not taxpayers
Local taxpayers should read it and weep. They have paid about $1 billion for a bungled, much delayed light rail system that I’m glad to see has generated at least $1.2-billion construction activity in downtown Kitchener. But the same taxpayers … Continue reading
During budget, facile Facebook items cause spiteful spat
This is an example of what you elect people to do at budget time when they’re supposed to be setting your property taxes. In this spiteful spat on Facebook, our touchy twosome — Councillors John Gazzola and Yvonne Fernandes — last … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Journalism, Transparency
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Time to speak out on Victoria Park heritage hassle
I hope Kitchener councillors and heritage officials have the backbone to stand up to blatantly arrogant regional heritage colleagues who are determined to demolish two quality homes on Queen Street just south of Joseph Schneider Haus. And in early fall … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, Homelessness, Journalism, Low-Cost Housing, Neighbourhoods, Victoria Park
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Council transparency: Appearance or substance?
When it comes to efforts by Kitchener council to improve accountability and transparency, appearance of change is not enough. Such efforts must have clear, meaningful results and a motion from Coun. Scott Davey last night achieved no such thing. The motion … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Perks and Expenses, Transparency
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Decimated newsrooms serving up pablum journalism
In an era where newspapers die and decimated newsrooms continue to shrink, it’s hardly surprising Kitchener residents are fed such a thin diet of daily-newspaper content. Pablum news is also dished up by our CBC outlet and other local radio-TV stations … Continue reading
Posted in Budget, Journalism
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Too little, too late in non-creative CEI spat
The average artist in Waterloo Region lives below the poverty line, earning $25,000-$30,000 a year. Tonight, at Waterloo Regional Council, Creative Enterprise Initiative (CEI) — a group supposedly formed to help those artists and small arts-culture groups — will ask … Continue reading
Posted in Arts & Culture, CEI, Journalism, Transparency
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Missing quality journalism
Because I occasionally miss my newspaper days of column-writing and sometimes find myself griping about the quality of local journalism, I have decided to go back to scribbling opinion pieces in this blog. That quality of journalism, by the way, … Continue reading
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