By Ian Paulson (WINDSOR, ON) – According to my colleague, Windsor Councilor Al Maghnieh has not answered questions when it comes to Maghnieh’s 2010 election spending. Not so much the spending, but the accounting thereof. Depending on what the facts are, it could be that Maghnieh failed to account for up to $5,000 in spending. [...]
The issue at hand is the shoddy performance of the Windsor Police Services Board and its Chairman, Eddie Francis. In the wake of the resignation (a co-called retirement) of Police Chief Gary Smith, there needs to be a further rolling of heads from the WPSB due to the severity of the situation. It must be [...]
By Ian Paulson (WINDSOR, ON) – Let me know if you’re surprised with Edgar’s antics on last Thursday. I mean the modus operandi was true to form. My colleague predicted the ousting of Police Chief Gary Smith long ago. There was the Anne Jarvis attack column helping in the political maneuvering to set up groups or individuals in [...]
By Ian Paulson (WINDSOR, ON) – The University of Louisville (KY), has a very good basketball program. The Cardinals have been four-time national champions and have reached the March Madness Final Four another eight times. From 1956 to 2009 the program played at Freedom Hall, a multi-purpose building last refurbished in 1984 and located less [...]
By Ian Paulson (WINDSOR, ON) – Welcome to part two of the OMBI Report review. This is not an audit, it is merely a review of a report issued by the Ontario Municipality CAO’s Benchmark Initiative. In the previous part I addressed Accounts Payable, Parking, Legal Services, and Child Care. The results of the OMBI [...]
By Ian Paulson (WINDSOR, ON) – The talk around Windsor has been concerning the failing score the City received from the CD Howe Institute as reported in “Holding Canada’s Cities to Account”. CD Howe had a look at a number of cities across Canada, including 16 in Ontario. The Institute measured municipal budgets and financial [...]
By Ian Paulson (WINDSOR, ON) – Edgar is upset; if you believe what you read in the Windsor Star. In front of the University Avenue armoury, at the end of May this year, there gathered together politicians, a newspaper publisher, and even a university president, to proclaim the “rebirth” of the downtown. Their big announcement [...]
On 5 May 1945 Peter and two other comrades from the 1st Battalion, Canadian Scottish Regiment, conducted the last night patrol of the Second World War. Prior to their leaving, a recce aircraft had over flown the intended patrol area and recorded the terrain in photographs. The patrol was able to become familiar with the [...]
By Ian Paulson (WINDSOR, ON) – Police, in general, have a difficult job to perform. They are tasked to continually deal mostly with the reprobates and ne’re-do-wells of society. In some cases they face-off against the likes of murderers and rapists, and even go up against nefarious scum like Paul Bernardo and Karla Holmolka. As [...]
By Ian Paulson (WINDSOR, ON) – The Vancouver Sun, self described (along with The Province) as one of “the two major daily papers in British Columbia, [that] are published by Pacific Newspaper Group Inc, a Postmedia Network company” has become the subject of a scathing article by Shannon Rupp, writing for The Tyee, “your independent [...]
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