Imagine for a moment you are a reporter for a media outlet. You call an elected official about an important matter and the person delivers a boiler plate response that you’ve heard before, what do you do? A former journalist for the Daily Telegraph and Financial Times faced a similar situation and was told by [...]
Pssst! Do you want to know a secret? Just don’t tell Percy Hatfield. Well, it’s not really a secret, but in the secret-free corridors of Windsor City Hall, it would be. Guess who glides about in a $127,000 Mercedes Benz S550V4? No, not the amateur economist Councillor Al Maghnieh. He merely “zooms” around in a lowly Mercedes C300 chasing [...]
The city’s former auditor general Todd Langlois responds to what his lawyer views as ”irrelevant, scandalous and prejudicial allegations” in the city’s Statement of Defence filed last month. City’s Statement of Defence Langlois Statement of Claim
Poor Todd Langlois. He was forced to defend himself from an anonymous city hall source dragging his name through the mud and now, according to the city’s Statement of Defence, he should be considered as acting unprofessionally and guilty of developing an elaborate “exit” strategy at taxpayer expense. Just shut up and sign a final release to [...]
Acquired by the Windsor Square, below is the City of Windsor’s Statement of Defence with respect to the termination of Todd Langlois, the City’s former Auditor General. Also provided is Todd Langlois’ Statement of Claim. More to follow. City of Windsor Statement of Defence Todd Langlois Statement of Claim
Last week, the Windsor Star after nearly a month and a half printed a Letter to the Editor from the self-described, “evil” Toronto lawyer, Andrew Roman stating his legal opinion about Windsor’s Auditor General. The first part of the letter was addressed in this column. This is the second column dealing with the second half of [...]
It’s a full court press to sway public opinion against a value for money audit of Enwin Utilities. If alarm bells weren’t sounding before, they certainly are now! How else to explain another letter from the “evil” Toronto lawyer, Andrew Roman published in today’s Windsor Star over a month after Councillor Hilary Payne emailed it to [...]
The annual Money Sense magazine rankings are out for 2012 and the news isn’t rosy for the Rose City. After benefitting from the torrents of cash the Provincial and Federal governments showered upon Windsor, its rankings have resumed their downward trend. Since 2008, the city’s quality of life ranking has tumbled from a high of 21 to 84 in [...]
Rather than placing the responsibility for the Auditor General fiasco firmly on the desks of city council and Mayor Francis where it belongs, the Windsor Star’s editorial board continues to blame the Audit Committee for the Auditor General fiasco: “Given the optics and past problems, the audit committee had to know that the duties and responsibilities [...]
Have you ever had one of those moments when you don’t know how quite to respond to something and instead sit there aghast in stunned silence? I had one of those moments today courtesy of the City of Windsor. Now don’t get me wrong with only one exception my experiences with city employees and senior staff have [...]
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