Burlington isn't even on the list of the Best Places to Buy a Home

By Staff July 7th. 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   When the list of the Best Places to buy a home was published people who wanted to […]

Centre for Skills Development - Job openings

By Staff July 7th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON       SUSTAINABLE AND MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT FOR EVERYONE. TRANSFORMING LIVES AND IMPROVING THE WORKFORCE AND ECONOMY. · […]

Canal lift bridge to get a $21 million deck replacement - work to start winter of 2023

By DENIS GIBBONS July 7th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   John Diefenbaker was Prime Minister and Burlington still was a town of about 47,000 the last […]

Lawson Hunter ask Council not to become a 'lame duck' and have the report get lost in the transition to a new term

By Lawson Hunter July 7th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON Lawson Hunter delegated at a Standing Committee earlier today to comment in support of “Climate Resilient Burlington: […]

BurlingtonGreen has a new home - The Pump House in the Beachway

By Staff July 7th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   What a great idea? The Pump House is a big part of the Beachway history. Not sure […]

Stolte announces: She will run for re-election in ward 4

By Pepper Parr July 6th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   After a bruising council meeting in June, ward 4 Councillor Shawna Stolte pulled herself together, got […]

AGB has a new Executive Director who might have some explaining to do to the tax people

By Pepper Parr July 6th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   News from the Art Gallery is hard to come by. They now have a communications/marketing person; […]

Surprise candidiate running as Regional Chair - Andrea Grebenc school board Chair moving up the food chain

By Staff July 6th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Here is a candidate announcement that surprised many – Andrea Grebenc, business owner for over 20 years, […]

Opinion writer finds fault with Canada’s legal system

By Connor Fraser, July 6th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   These last few weeks I have been unusually tired. Initially, I suspected that a combination of […]

Standing Committee gets off to a rough start - both the Chair and the Vice Chair don't show up - sent their regrets

By Pepper Parr July 5th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON Update: Both showed up after the lunch break Here is a first. For the first time in […]

Fast shuffle of the Art Gallery Board Officers: Jane Depraitere out after being re-elected two weeks earlier.

By Staff July 4th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   The Art Gallery held their Annual meeting virtually late in June. Lina Jabra completed her interim Executive […]

Unwanted talent in Spencer Smith Park becoming a problem. - Concerts in the Park is what the public prefers

By Staff July 4th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON Revised and updated Spencer Smith Park has a special meaning for the people of Burlington. Trample on what […]

Early look at city tax increases for 2023 come in at just under 8%

By Pepper Parr July 4th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Council will debate the tax increases they expect to impose during a meeting on Monday. They […]

Repair Cafe setting up in Aldershot this time - July 5th

By Staff July 3rd, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Repair Café – that band of people who pop into a community offering to repair almost anything […]

Housing strategy fundamentals in place - now for the really hard work in an uncertain economic environment

By Pepper Parr July 3rd, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON City Council decided January 2021 that there had to be a housing strategy that would make it […]

Council agenda on Monday thick with closed meeting items.

By Staff June 3rd, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   The week long schedule of Standing Committee meetings begins on Monday. Don’t expect it to be as […]

A great evening for a concert in the Park: Splendor in the Brass - starts at 7:30 Central Park Band shell

By Staff July 3rd, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON It started mid-June and will run through to the end of August: Concerts in the Park a joint […]

Street level reaction beginning to come in on that Council meeting last week.

By Pepper Parr July 3rd, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   The street level reaction is beginning to come in now that people can see the 15 […]

86% of the people who responded to the poll said the Mayor should have apologized to Councillor Stolte

By Staff July 2, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON Mayor Marianne Meed Ward taking part in a Council Standing Committee meeting.   The first of our polls […]

An excerpt from that disgraceful Council meeting - how did this Council become so dysfunctional?

By Pepper Parr July 2nd, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Earlier in the month, June 21st, during a city council meeting, the Mayor and a member […]