Winding Down Appleby and gearing up for the New Appleby at the Robert Bateman Community Centre - September 15th

By Gazette Staff August 6th, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   A message from the Burlington Library leadership: Set up and construction crews are on the […]

Disruption has made some huge changes in the way business is done in many sectors: might that ever include the city of Burlington?

By Pepper Parr August 6th, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   Disruption is not something new that began around 2000. It is an elemental part of every […]

Burlington Renters May Soon Face 5% Hikes as Landlords Respond to Property Tax Increases

By Joseph A. Gaetan BGS August 6th, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   The following is an excerpt from an information package prepared by the Landlord […]

Engagement: In Burlington – photo ops are basically the prime political currency.

By Pepper Parr August 5th, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   Engagement can be a double-edged sword. It got to be a little too much for this […]

9 In-person Doors Open sites - Saturday 10:00 to 2:00

By Gazette Staff August 5th, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   Discover the stories behind Burlington’s most unique spaces during Doors Open Burlington this Saturday from 10am […]

Foundation puts the word Community back into their logo - never understood why they removed it in the first place

By Gazette Staff August 5th, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   Colleen Mulholland announcing the new corporate name. The word community got dropped – that was in […]

“History is best told as a story of organized crime,” said University of Cambridge scholar Luke Kemp

By Pepper Parr August 4th, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   “History is best told as a story of organised crime,” said Luke Kemp, who studies at […]

Crosswalk markings missing at Plains and Francis in Aldershot

By Gazette Staff August 4th, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   You know the joke – why did the chicken cross the road – to get to […]

Gould adjusts to not being a Cabinet Minister

By Pepper Parr August 4th, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON In the past few weeks there has been comment on how available or unavailable Burlington MP Karina […]

Will Curt Benson bring a different ethic to the way city hall deals with the public? Will transparency and accountability be real under his watch? Possible with this guy.

By Pepper Parr August 3rd, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON OPINION When Curt Benson woke up this morning, he was the city’s Chief Administrative Officer (CAO); his […]

Library Summer Reading Club has room for you

By Gazette Staff August 3rd, 2025 Burlington, on   Some of the summer is gone, but there is a lot left and there are a […]

Gag order put on the swimming clubs lets the Mayor do all the talking

By Pepper Parr August 3rd, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   With a gag order in place on the swimming pool allocation matter Mayor Meed Ward gets […]

Rivers on Free Trade: What Free Trade?

By Ray Rivers August 2nd, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON “Time to grow up! Batten down the hatches and expand to new markets. Trade east west. Remove […]

Hamilton based swimming club has been given Burlington pool space for their members; the Devilrays believe they can run a strong program with what they were given

By Pepper Parr August 2nd,2025 BURLINGTON, ON   With a gag order in place, it’s difficult to get much in the way of information on […]

Stern on the relationship between rent and taxes

By Gazette Staff August 2nd, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   Focus Burlington published an interesting piece today on rent and taxes. Eric Stern shows the tax […]

City has put a gag order on the swimming clubs

By Pepper Parr August 1st, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   This doesn’t surprise us – the city has imposed a gag order on the swimming clubs. […]

A Solution for Competitive Youth Swimming is announced: no details - just that there is a solution

By Pepper Parr August 1st, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   City Hall announced minutes ago that a solution for competitive youth swimming has been reached between […]

The budget numbers are being fudged before serious discussion at the ward level take place

By Pepper Parr August 1st, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   Mayoral aspirant Lisa Kearns: Look closely at how tightly the fingers are held. Mayoral aspirant Lisa […]

Jazz on the Plaza: a Performing Arts Summer feature

By Pepper Parr August 1st, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON   August has always been a nice month for the Performing Arts Centre. Their now decade-old event […]

A new group that wants to see an end to the Strong Mayor Powers

By Pepper Parr August 1st, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON Summer is a tough time to get anything done; the BBQ circuit is busy, but it’s mostly […]