City’s top bureaucrat first casualty after coup attempt on Brampton City Council
Why would six councillors provoke the unprecedented move of a CAO change just 10 weeks away from a municipal election?
Bovaird House – Friends with benefits
Report reveals twenty years of preferential treatment for FHBH including paying for bank fees, newsletters and mailing costs, to spending over $1.5M on capital improvements plus an additional $300K in operating costs.
Brampton’s Mikyla Grant-Mentis makes history at NWHL Awards
Bramptonian Mikyla Grant-Mentis gives local hockey fans reason to celebrate women’s sports excellence on the ice.
Peel Region remembers Mama Sarah Obama
Local residents in Peel Region remember the 2015 visit by President Barack Obama’s paternal grandmother Dr. Sarah Obama popularly known as Mama Sarah Obama.
Brampton at risk of reverting to Stage 2
Startling COVID-19 infection numbers were released on Friday from the Ontario Ministry of Health indicating that Peel Region accounted for 72 of the 148 new cases in the province. 36 of the new cases were from Brampton. Premier Doug Ford was quick to respond, raising the prospect of rolling back Peel region to Stage 2 […]
COVID-19 Pandemic in Brampton: Week 10 Perspective
The pandemic response so far has glaringly exposed facets of our lives that we take for granted. Many of the measures that have been put in place will likely persist until public health officials deem otherwise. Many of these experts are warning that a vaccine may take a long time to develop and we may be living with this virus for the foreseeable future. How have we fared?
Mississauga Mayor Crombie rebukes 17% property tax increase
The property tax is one of the most inefficient taxes there is. It is essentially an income tax because no matter how much your house is worth, you don’t realize that value until you sell it. Cities essentially tax your income.
Long-term care facilities in Peel “dealing with very dangerous terrain”
Startling statistics from health officials regarding COVID-19 deaths in Ontario have revealed that 114 of the 274 deaths have been connected to long term care facilities and the trend is increasing across Canada. Quebec and Ontario have been hit the hardest, with the largest outbreak in Ontario at the Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon, where […]
Abandoning Society’s Most Vulnerable: Competing Rights and COVID-19
As society settles into an emergency measures state during the COVID-19 pandemic, survival of the fittest peaks its ugly head. Not only are we contemplating whose body is more resilient if we must ration medical interventions, we are also competing on the rights front putting our most vulnerable at the bottom of the list of […]
Medical Model Peaks Its Ugly Head in the Lives of Canadians with Disabilities
Are we opening the door to undermine our accomplishments in human rights, especially for people with disabilities. Meanwhile, we create an ironic sense of inequality among Canadians with disabilities re-enforcing a sense of a hierarchy of disability.