For all you nerds out there: each section of my weeknote has anchor tags for your link sharing needs. I have a lot of smaller sections this week: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. §1 Windsor’s lack of ambition suggests a state of decadence My colleague Ross Douthat — you may […]
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Weeknote 7 (2021)
Monday at 10am begins the special meeting of City Council to deliberate on the 2021 Budget. For a proper breakdown, I strongly recommend reading Frazier Father’s post on what he found notable from it. §1 When progress meant more money for education than police There was a time in which the City of Windsor would […]
Weeknote 6, 2021
I’m going to break from tradition a bit and recap bearing witness to the muderclowns handling our pandemic to the end of this post because I’m going to try to make this weekly update a little less of a downer. §1 Is my voice “diverse”? This City of Windsor press release headline that makes me […]
Weeknote 5, 2021
§1 The Third Wave I don’t put too much energy into making predictions but it is becoming increasingly clear to me that we are going to be hit with a third wave of COVID-19 in the spring and early summer and it’s going to be brutal. It is difficult to see any other outcome when […]
Weeknote 4, 2021
§1 The Safety Insights Dance Earlier this week, I took a closer look at the recent deal between The City of Windsor and Ford Mobility Canada in a post called Safety Insights, Data Privacy, and Spatial Justice. §2 Trying to save their reputation, instead of lives We have long passed the point in which we […]
Weeknote 3, 2021
§1 Three days ago, The Toronto Star proved that the Ford government significantly watered down the COVID-19 health and safety guidelines for schools while the government repeatedly assured Ontarians that they were following the best medical advice. In doing so, not only did they endanger the lives of the educators of Ontario, some would argue […]
Weeknote 1, 2021
§1: Partisanship is hazardous to our health In a better world, all of our levels of government would work together to contain COVID-19 and protect lives. But we live in Windsor, Ontario where the Mayor and the Head of Windsor’s Regional Hospital are more than happy to criticize the Federal Government’s work in supplying vaccines […]
Weeknote Nov 24-30 2020
Things are not going well. I wrote about where we are at with COVID-19 earlier this week in a post called, The Invisibility of Carework. Next City Council meeting is Monday, December 7, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. The Agenda is 574 pages long and I have not even glanced through it yet. I did take […]
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 […]