Jul 18, 2011 | Debbie in the Community, The Issues
Have you ever experienced the phenomenon of declaring what you want without knowing how your dream will be fulfilled and then, all of sudden, the possibilities start to appear? That has been happening to me these last couple weeks. So what is my wish? A...
Jul 4, 2011 | Debbie in the Community, The Issues
I am delighted to tell you that the Greenbelt Alliance has categorically criticized the recommendation for a new highway in Vaughan as being the way to address the congestion between the urban growth centers as part of the GTA West Corridor. Click here to read their...
Jul 4, 2011 | Debbie in the Community, The Issues
How do you set priorities when you don’t have enough money to do everything? Like many municipalities King has a huge backlog of road maintenance projects; I suspect our situation is particularly acute as we are responsible for a lot of local roads but our population...
Jun 26, 2011 | Debbie in the Community, The Issues
In a separate post I talked about visiting the Green Home in Richmond Hill. I was well primed for seeing it –a real actual house in a subdivision with “green” features– as a week earlier I was given a tour of the Earth Rangers Centre on the Kortright...
Jun 16, 2011 | The Issues
Stage 1 of the Environmental Assessment for the GTA West Corridor has been completed; a draft is now circulating for comments up until 6/30/11. As anticipated (with regret) the recommendation is to build a new east/west highway to facilitate the movement of goods...
