New blog post:
Ontario gave 169 more mayors "strong powers" and already a few are using them, not for good
A look at Orillia, Stratford, Niagara, and Rideau Lakes.
Get out the popcorn, there are plenty of small-minded mayors who will abuse their new powers
thepublicrecord.ca/2025/06/joey...
99% of the time councils (all politicians?) screw up, it’s because of this.
#onmuni
Well done! I always wanted to be on the Agenda…😐
Very proud to have signed this letter with Mayors Petrie and Mayberry.
Special thanks to Ingersoll for identifying this recent lobbying threat to a municipality’s right.
#onmuni #onpoli #demandtheright #zorratwp #oxfordcounty #doingourpart #growingstrongertogether
Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.
I voted in advance polls.
Get informed and vote.
It’s not only a right, it’s a responsibility.
#vote #election2025 #canpoli #Vote2025
You will be missed. Especially in #onpoli and #onmuni land. See you on Manitoulin. Chi-miigwech @spaikin.bsky.social
I spoke with Unifor Local 88 CAMI plant chair Mike Van Boekel and Ingersoll Mayor Brian Petrie last night and today to assure them that Oxford County is there to support.
Their members are our residents, our neighbours. #cami #oxfordcounty #ingersoll #elbowsup #elbowsupcanada
Read the whole thread by @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social
We’ve always needed to think more about big things. Now the need is acute.
In contravention of your bylaw?!
Onpoli podcast with @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social and @spaikin.bsky.social
I didn’t say it’s not the church.
I won’t be wearing a suit all week.
#StandWithUkraine
#slavaukraïni
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A hockey game where fans are sitting in the stands and we see them from the back. One guy is wearing a red jersey that says Never 51.
Vote.
Always vote.
#DoingMyPart #growingstrongertogether #vote #onpoli #onpolitics #onvote #ontarioelection #ontariopolitics
My challenge, to all of us is let’s get a flag on every pole, every porch, every antenna in Oxford!
More than ever:
Happy Canada Flag Day! 🇨🇦 #doingourpart #growingstrongertogether #canada #canadianflag #notthe51ststate
There’s never been a more important time to shop local.
I’m currently working with both Zorra & Oxford Staff on ways to “buy Canadian”.
I will personally be avoiding purchasing American products, & will not be travelling to the US
🇨🇦 #buyCanadian #shoplocal
Before the War of 1812 the US President said invading Canada would be “a mere matter of marching”.
He was wrong.
#Trump is wrong to.
We fought & won.
It ended with us setting fire to the Whitehouse.
Canadians are patriotic.
Usually quietly.
Now we need to be loud.
#Canadaisnotforsale
7/7 All part of the long term financial plan for the Township. Full details are available in various reports, and of course the 2025 budget (all online at zorra.ca).
It’s in the tax bill already. We are paying the bill already. We are reaping the savings already.
6/7 The new buildings will do a better job of serving residents, and cost less. We don’t need to do additions, or replace roofs, or repave parking lots. New buildings are also more energy efficient and result in lower energy bills.
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5/7 To keep owning the previous old buildings would have meant saving, borrowing, and spending more money over the next fifty years than it is to sell those properties and build new facilities: retiring old expensive assets and replacing them with new less expensive assets.
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4/7 Well of course it’s all tax dollars, but some was debentures (borrowing), some was reserves (savings), and some was surplus land sales.
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