Opinion

The recent announcement by Cornwall city councillor Sarah Good that she was dropping out of this year’s Cornwall mayoral race and leaving municipal politics altogether came as a surprise, but it was not unexpected. Good […]

The Ontario government recently passed new legislation that reforms how Freedom of Information inquiries operate. That legislation now restricts more Executive Council (cabinet) documents, high-level correspondence, and call logs of senior officials including those of […]

Nominations for this year’s municipal and school board elections open Friday, May 1. No level of government has more direct contact with your day-to-day life than the municipal and school board level. These governments deal […]

For over two years, the question of what to do with, and how to pay for, the two village plazas in South Dundas has been a constant struggle for this council and administration. The villages […]

A contentious rezoning application has boiled over in South Dundas, with the fallout highlighting multiple wrongs on all sides of the issue. At the April 8 South Dundas council meeting, three-fifths of council voted against […]

The Ontario government introduced legislation April 2, which will further blur the lines between provincial and municipal governance in areas of the province. The Better Regional Governance Act, if passed, will restructure the upper-tier municipal […]

Since 1997, the Ontario government has released its “sunshine list”, a grotesque list of government workers who earn $100,000 or more per year. That list also includes employees from municipalities, school boards, hospitals, police services, […]

What should have been a good-news story has turned into a can of worms in the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry. A program that plants trees along the sides of county roads as […]

On March 13, the Ontario government announced sweeping changes to its freedom of information laws. The reforms mainly protect internal communications. These include discussions within the provincial cabinet, the Premier’s Office, and between cabinet ministers […]