Two GO-VAXX Indoor Walk-In Clinics coming to Burlington Jan. 22 and Feb. 5

By Staff January 19th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Both GO-VAXX Indoor Walk-In Clinics will take place at Sherwood Forest Park. No appointment required. GO-VAXX Indoor […]

One of those thousand word images

By Staff January 19th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   One of those thousand word images.   Related news story: Rivers on Omicron (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i[‘GoogleAnalyticsObject’]=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) […]

Rivers on Omicron: the Mild Variant that has re-shaped health care world wide

By Ray Rivers January 19th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   COVID, since day one of the pandemic, has had a stigma attached to it. Unless one […]

Is the city going to see shovels in the ground at the entrance to Spencer Smith Park?

By Pepper Parr January 19th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Ward 2 Councillor Lisa Kearns has a couple of very contentious developments in her ward. After […]

Ontario's Auditor General Addresses Criticism on iGaming Report

By Pierre Garner January 21, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Towards the end of last year, the office of the Auditor General in Ontario released a […]

Telephone Town Hall on city response to Covid19 pandemic

By Staff January 19th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   TELEPHONE Town Hall this evening at 6:30 pm – it will run for an hour. The purpose […]

Catholic school board reverses its decision and will now fly the Pride flag

By Pepper Parr January 19th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   After hours of rancorous debate the Halton District Catholic School Board voted 5-3 to allow the […]

Our COVID19 battle is far from over - hospitalization levels still rising

By Staff January 19th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   This is far from over. Ontario reported 4,183 people were hospitalized with COVID-19; 580 are in ICU […]

Blanchard street residents find several feet of snow at the end of a driveway they shoveled out the night before

By Staff January 18th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON This is a problem that has plagued seniors for some time. When packed down this is very hard […]

Metrolinx is adding reinforcements to its fleet of mobile vaccine buses to help push back against the spread of COVID-19.

By Staff January 18TH, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Metrolinx has partnered with the Government of Ontario to operate a fleet of mobile COVID vaccine clinics […]

COVID-19 Outbreak Expanded to Additional Inpatient Unit at Joseph Brant Hospital  

By Staff January 18th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   The COVID-19 outbreak that was declared on Unit 4 North 700 (4N700) on January 12 has extended […]

Open Letter from the Halton Members of Parliament to Catholic Trustees

By Pepper Parr January 18th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   The four Members of Parliament who represent the people of Halton wrote an Open Letter to […]

Letter from Halton MPs to Catholic Trustees was inappropriate

By Pepper Parr January 18th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON Opinion Last Friday, the four members of Parliament who represent the people of Halton sent an open […]

Council gets lauded for being leaders at community engagement - then goes mute when the biggest development the city has seen in some time is in front of them

By Pepper Parr January 17th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON Council has been holding a number of Closed session meetings – all kinds of litigation taking place. […]

City council wants to know more about the Indian Act - to support the Indigenous people?

By Pepper Parr January 17th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   There was an agenda for a Council Workshop scheduled for this afternoon. That it was cancelled […]

Snow Event declared for Jan. 17, 2022 – On-street parking cancelled

By Staff January 17th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   To allow snow removal equipment room to clear roads safely and quickly, all on-street parking has been […]

Opposing views on Pride Flag will be heard by Catholic Trustees on Tuesday

By Pepper Parr January 16th, 2022 BURLINGTON,, ON   The debate on flying the Pride flag at Catholic schools in the Halton Region will be […]

Pride flag issues bedevil the Catholic School Board - federal MP's write an Open Letter

By Pepper Parr January 16th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Tuesday of this week the Halton District Catholic School (HDCSB) Board will hear delegations related to […]

Things are getting better and better in the news room; circulation has some new offerings as well

By Pepper Parr January 15th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   In the next week or so you will begin to see some subtle changes to the […]

Dress Warmly: Top 5 Ideas for a Fun Winter in Burlington

By Amy Hogan January 14th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Winter in all its glory In countries and cities where winter is in all its glory, […]