Live & Play to go out of print: digital from this point forward.

By Staff February 11th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON Adult Registration Spring/Summer Registration for Adults begins Saturday, Feb. 22 at 9 a.m. The online Live & Play […]

Online Forms Unavailable Feb. 14 - 18, for Scheduled Maintenance

By Staff February 10th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   Between Friday, Feb. 14 at 4:30 p.m. and Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 8:30 a.m., the City will […]

Impaired Driving Offences Within Halton Region

By Staff February 10th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON If you have been named in a police report and after going through the judicial procedure and were […]

Accessibility and Heritage Advisory Committees looking for new members..

By Staff February 10th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   The City of Burlington is currently recruiting volunteers to be members of the Heritage Burlington Advisory Committee […]

The city now has the authority to actually barricade the party house on Lakeshore Road if that is what it takes to bring an end to the noisy parties

By Pepper Parr February 7th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   As court cases go – this one went pretty quickly. The city filed their application for […]

Japanese garden, designed to highlight the city's twinning with Itabashi Japan, wins significant award.

By Staff February 7th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   The Itabashi Garden at the Tansley Community Centre has won the Parks and Recreation Ontario 2020 Award […]

Free fishing in February? Province wants Family Day to be an occasion to go fishing

By Pepper Parr February 7th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   Family Day is a relatively new event for the people of Ontario. Everyone seems to want […]

Dr. Wally Pieczonka donates the largest ever legacy gift to the Burlington Foundation to improve access to the arts.

By Staff February 7th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   The Burlington Foundation last month announced the largest donation in its 20-year history through a legacy gift […]

Listen in on the ancient and very human art story telling at the Drummer

By Staff February 7th, 20020 BURLINGTON, ON The Different Drummer Books is going to celebrate Valentine’s Day and the genius of The Burlington Storytellers Guild, […]

'What we have here is a failure to communicate': Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke - seems to apply to Burlington as well

By Pepper Parr February 6th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   The only tool that matters for anyone serving the public is the ability to communicate – […]

Metrolinx likes the idea of further developing their properties; likes the opportunity to include retail for those who want to shop on the way home.

By Staff February 6th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   It is not just the traditional and known developers who want to build in Burlington. Metrolinx operates […]

Museum sets up a 'Strike Camp' for parents who need day care space on Thursday

By Staff February 5th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   This is a little like selling umbrellas when it’s raining. Museums Burlington, operators of the Joseph Brant […]

Information sessions on what you can and cannot do with the trees on your property: private tree bylaw now in effect

By Pepper Parr February 5th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   Now for the hard part – convincing those seriously opposed to the Private Tree Bylaw that […]

NDP candidate hammers the government - points out that Deputy Ministers have been given 14% increases over a 4 year period

By Andrew Drummond February 5th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   This week, across Halton region there will be three days of education disruption. The elementary teachers […]

New city Clerk appointed; hails from Halifax - starts February 18th

By Staff February 4th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   Kevin Arjoon was named the new Clerk for the city. He will take up his duties on […]

City gets an injunction against 'party house' and recovers costs as well. Kudos for that win.

By Staff February 4th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   The city announced earlier today that its Legal Services department was successful in obtaining a permanent injunction […]

Pushing retail development north of Caroline - part of the endorsed preferred concept.

By Pepper Parr February 4th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   What kind of a city are we going to have three, five or ten years hence? […]

When there is a messy issue - get in front of it and be candid. Burlington didn't manage to do that on Monday.

By Pepper Parr February 4th, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   Getting city hall to just be up front and open is very difficult. The vehicle had […]

Driver of the city owned car parked illegally in a handicapped space no longer with the city.

By Staff February 3rd, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON   Well that’s the end of that story. A tough city response to a stupid mistake by an […]

Impaired Driving Offences Within Halton Region February 1st and 2nd.

By Staff February 3rd, 2020 BURLINGTON, ON If you have been named in a police report and after going through the judicial procedure and were […]