Transit Detours on Routes 3, 5 and 300 for Remembrance Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015

      A Remembrance Day Ceremony will be taking place in downtown Burlington on Wednesday Nov. 11, 2015. Buses will be detoured from […]

Aldershot resident takes a strip off the Mayor - accuses him of evading questions.

By Pepper Parr November 6th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Tom Muir is not happy. He asked what he thought was a pretty simple question about a […]

Police seeking a fugitive with 25 criminal convictions.

By Staff November 6, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Burlington Offender Management Unit of the Halton Regional Police Service is searching for Scott Michael MACDONALD 36 […]

What a Cabinet - what a challenge to fashion a new way of running the country.

By Ray Rivers November 6, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON No matter who one voted for in the October federal election, we should all be proud of […]

Cogeco's The Issue panel discusses Burlington's difficulty putting a code of conduct ion place for its members of Council

By Staff November 6, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Additional background information has been added to this piece after it was first published. Cogeco Cable Community TV […]

Great fall weather after a phenomenal baseball run has left the hospitality sector in very good financial shape.

By Pepper Parr November 6, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The radio forecast 21 degrees – did we reach that level? Wonderful weather – the hospitality people […]

Blasts from the past: The Platters and the Ink spots in town for one night - good tickets still available.

By Pepper Parr November 5, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON I was supposed to get together with a friend but he cancelled –“Can’t make it – when […]

Easier way to reach those people at city hall who work on your behalf; new format for email addresses. Does this mean printing new business cards for all of them?

By Pepper Parr November 5, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON This is a change – a welcome one – we think. Now we know how to reach […]

Fire arms amnesty pulls in more than 100 weapons - streets are now safer say the police.

By Staff November 5th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Halton Regional Police have completed their week long firearms and weapons amnesty. Between October 19 and October […]

295,671.77 lbs of food raised through the Giving Back project; bit more to come.

By Staff November 4, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Not quite the number that was hoped for (305,000 LBS) but a fabulous number nevertheless. Some of the […]

Kim Kelly, a special constable with the Regional Police to Receive Governor General's Caring Canadian Award

By Staff November 4, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Kim Kelly, a Special Constable with the Halton Police Service, will be meeting the Governor General of Canada […]

Part two of the visualization exercise council recently went through - what might our city look like?

By Pepper Parr November 4, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Second of a multi part series on how the city thinks intensification could be managed. Last month […]

Giving Back well past the half way mark of the 305,000 lbs of food they planned on collecting.

By Pepper Parr November 4, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON They came trooping through the door – lugging boxes and bags of food that would be weighed, […]

Pedestrian struck by train - declared deceased at the scene

By Staff November 4, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON A life was lost last night when at approximately 9:35 p.m. Halton Regional Police received a report that […]

Regional police work with Border Services nab imported heroin - two charged held for a bail hearing.

By Staff November 3rd, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Halton Regional Police partnered with the Canadian Border Services and intercepted a shipment of heroin they believe […]

Ward Councillor suggests the development blight in the east end of the city might be coming to an end - hope for the Lakeside plaza?

By Pepper Parr November 3, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON There is apparently some development movement in the east end of the city – Lakeside Plaza is […]

CineStarz showtimes for Week of Friday, November 06, 2015 through Thursday, November 12, 2015

Ciné-Starz Upper Canada Place, Burlington, ON Burlington, ON L7R 4B6   Week of Friday, November 06, 2015 through Thursday, November 12, 2015 The Last Witch […]

Giving back gets a number attached to it: 1 million lbs of food collected by young Burlington hockey players and donated to families in need.

By Staff November 2nd, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON On Tuesday, November 3rd and Wednesday, November 4th, more than 2,000 young hockey athletes and students will come […]

Citizen is perplexed; Council member misleads and Mayor gives a whole new meaning to meaningful response

By Pepper Parr November 2, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Mayor blows off a constituent – publicly, and the most proactive member of city council disappoints […]

Citizen finds the meaningful response from the Mayor a little on the disappointing side - and feels he still doesn't have an answer to questions everyone agrees are important.

By Pepper Parr November 2, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The doggedly going after Ward 2 Councillor Marianne Meed Ward and the Mayor for answers to questions […]