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Estuary at Stewart, BC
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The bridge in Riverside Park, Guelph ON.
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Along the Yellowhead Highway near Edson, AB.
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Butterfly Conservatory, Cambridge ON.
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Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Guelph, ON.
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Open letter to Guelph City Council
(13 July 2018) – I just sent this letter by e-mail to the Guelph mayor and city councillors. I will share their responses as they arrive in my inbox: “Dear Mayor and Councillors, Regarding the decision to set the mayor’s net salary for 2019 at the same level as the net salary for 2018, I have some questions about how you propose to accomplish this. The first question flows from the slight chance that the current mayor is not re-elected but is replaced by a new mayor who has a different personal tax profile, how do you propose to set the new gross salary at
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Why now more than ever?
When activists design campaigns and craft their slogans, they should pay more attention to the message they put out. When I walk around our neighbourhood these days, I see a lot of lawn signs telling us to say no to Nestles. That’s good. I’ve been saying it for a long time. I think the signs are to promote the campaign to stop excessive water-taking for the Nestles bottling facility in Aberfoyle. As a corporation, Nestles had been on my shit list since the late 1970s. That was when it became increasingly clear they were poisoning babies in the third world. The company gave away free
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The dude didn’t abide
(08 July 2018) – In the final year of every Council term, before an election takes place, a citizen’s committee reviews the salaries paid to the mayor and councillors. Compensation packages are compared to those paid in other cities. Then it recommends where our people fit in with the others. It is a straightforward process that keeps a firewall between the councillors and their pay schedule. Raises come into effect after the election. As an example, the 2014 committee found that our mayor was underpaid in comparison to other Ontario cities. It recommended that the job rate should go up by 26 per cent and
Half a million bucks, one used book at a time
Note: The Friends of the Guelph Public Library is still searching for a location to hold the 2018 book sale. If you can help, leave a message for Virginia Gillham
Walk in or walk on
(04 July 2018) – When I left Facebook in March, I had close to 500 contacts. Facebook calls them my friends, which I find annoying. I wouldn’t shout out “hey,