Sound of Music gets provincial grant for just short of a quarter of a million; also adds a ticketed event this year.

By Pepper Parr April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It was certainly the best phone call or letter that Dave Miller had the day he got […]

Budgets, budgets, budgets - does anyone actually understand them?

By Ray Rivers April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Ontario’s finance minister, Charles Sousa, boasted that the government had beaten down its projected 2014 deficit target […]

An event to brighten up the way we look at things - Spring is out there somewhere - maybe an art event will hasten its arrival.

By Staff April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Spring is that time of year when we are filled with hope for warmer days and sunshine. It’s […]

Tourism board recruiting directors

By Staff April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The city’s tourism operation has taken to social media to recruit new members for its board. In a […]

Burlington pharmacy is robbed; bandit flees with money and narcotics

By Staff April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Just a little after 6:35pm yesterday afternoon, a lone male suspect armed with a knife, entered the I.D.A. […]

Chamber of Commerce Excellence winners will be announced at Convention Centre gala.

By Staff April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Glam it up a bit was the word from the President of the Burlington Chamber of Commerce as […]

Burlington's former Miss Canada has her sights set on the House of Commons - bye bye city hall.

By Pepper Parr April 9, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON For all those folks in ward 6 who struggled to decide who they wanted to vote for […]

Public gets first look at the design for Beachway Park: it is almost five character parks strung together

By Pepper Parr April 8, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It was a meeting with a number of agendas – the people whose homes were going to […]

Insecure servers are making it easier for hackers to steal your identity.

By Staff April 7, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Identity theft operators are at it 24/7. They just churn out phony email messages and send them […]

Another Director level staff member announces retirement - Zvaniga to leave at the end of April

By Pepper Parr April 7, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Are the decks being cleared; are new opportunities popping up in other municipalities – what’s going on? […]

Head of the culture and heritage in Grande Prairie coming to Burlington to lead the AGB - wait till he sees the cost of a house in this city.

By Pepper Parr April 7, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Art Gallery of Burlington announced today that they have appointed Robert Steven as its new President […]

Aldershot residents Muir and Woodruff comment on what the Planners are thinking - they don't like what they are hearing.

By Pepper Parr April 7, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Tom Muir has been a consistent critique of many city council decisions and an advocate for his […]

Royalty is the next stop for Burlington's most famous high school drop out.

By Pepper Parr April 6, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Ronnie is having quite a run. Things began to heat up for Ron Foxcroft when he got […]

What's On? - now you can find out.

By Staff April 7, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It isn’t the kind of graphic you can miss. We wanted it big and bright to draw your […]

Teaching machines to talk to each other so that their capacity utilization can be improved - this kind of operation just might keep us in the world wide economic race.

By Pepper Parr April 7, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Our interview with Dave McPhail took a little longer than we expected – McPhail was hunched over […]

Public to get first look at city plan for Beachway park - will there be any homes on the plans?

By Pepper Parr April 6, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It will not be a quiet meeting. City planners will be showing the public what they think […]

Rural coalition not happy with the progress on getting the Air Park to comply with a Site Plan requirement; city has brought in its big legal guns - same guy that won for us last time.

By Pepper Parr April 4, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The report before the Development and Infrastructure Standing Committee was a summary of the issues that have […]

Comic book store robber arrested - not a laughing matter.

By Staff April 4, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Halton Regional Police have made an arrest in the April 3rd robbery at “Conspiracy Comics” on Fairview […]

Church looking for the same treatment Humane Society got - they aren't there yet but they haven't given up.

By Pepper Parr April 4, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It was a little complicated but for Russ Weegar it was pretty simple. We paid the taxes, […]

Comic book store held up - robber uses hammer to get money.

By Staff April 3, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON At about 8:00 pm on Friday evening, a lone female suspect entered the “Conspiracy Comics” store at 2388 […]