§1 At midnight, Windsor-Essex will be in the grey zone and schools will be online only until Winter break. The Windsor Essex Health Unit has a page that lists all the ongoing outbreaks. I know a lot of people are upset at the regular group of 30 or so who have been protesting outdoors the […]
Category archives: City
Weeknote Nov 17-23 2020
There is a city council meeting on Monday. I’m not going to watch it live but I will try to follow up on the outcomes of the following: 8.1. Capitol Theatre Legacy Grant Application 8.7 Parking Bylaw 9023 – Recommended Amendments on Sandwich Street (C 215/2020) 11.1 Contracting Out Caretaking Services – Phase II- City […]
Weeknote Nov.10-16 2020
Last Monday, Council voted 6-4 in favour of the Mayor’s motion to support the location of the future hospital. During said meeting, the CEO of the Windsor Essex Economic Development Corporation suggested that the only thing holding back receiving $2.3 billion dollars of funding was a unanimous vote at Windsor City Council. So, as someone […]
Weeknote Nov 3 – 9 2020
Tomorrow promises to be a looooong city council meeting filled with delegates testifying for and against the Mayor’s motion in support of the County Road 42 location of the amalgamation of our local hospitals. Since I wanted to wait for the Ontario Provincial Budget to be released first, I sent my own position against the […]
Not 3.5 and not 12 but 8.5
I have lamented in several posts on this blog that natural coverage of the county of Essex is 3.5% — the worst in all of Ontario. I have since learned that this point of data from 2002 is no longer accurate. In 2012, the coverage moved 8.5%. My new question is why hasn’t the measure […]
Weeknote Oct 20 – Oct 26 2020
On Tuesday, October 20th we learned that the Ford government intends to remove the ability for a municipality to use ranked ballots. I’m a bit gutted about this. There is still time to register for a 60 minute session on Monday October 26 at 7:30pm from Unlock Democracy about the success of Ranked Ballots in […]
A city with a strategic plan is the goal
It’s a cliché but a goal without a plan is a wish. If that’s the case, the City of Windsor is a city of wishful thinking. Tonight I spent a little time re-reading The City of Windsor’s 20 Year Strategic Vision just to remind myself if it still holds up as the weakest and the […]
Weeknotes, Oct 6 – Oct 12 2020
Jeewen Gill is Windsor’s new Ward 7 councillor with a share of 19.7% share of the vote. Despite my misgivings, I did listen into the virtual Ward 4 & 5 Town Hall meeting last week. It was better than I expected and I did appreciate the ability to be polled about future budget priorities and […]
Weeknotes, Sept 22 – Sept 28 2020
There’s a City Council Meeting today at noon. The agenda is pretty light. It includes the question of whether used clothing bins be regulated by the city and potential relief from 2019 property taxation due to extreme poverty and/or sickness. While the agenda is light, there are nine delegates lined to up to speak to […]
Weeknotes, Sept 15 – Sept 21 2020
On Monday, September 15th, City Council held a meeting. Unfortunately, the archived video is not time-stamped, which means it is very difficult to find out, for example, Did measure 8.17 about city support of community gardens pass? [Answer: yes and you can hear so at the 1:49 mark] My colleague, Carina Luo is Geospatial Data […]