Citizen given Champion Award for developing a device that accesses the 911 service for those with speech or hearing impairments.

By Pepper Parr November 26, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Arthur Rendall, a member of Burlington’s Accessibility Advisory Committee, was presented with the AODA 10th Anniversary Champion […]

Ralph and Lina at The Centre: The get me pregnant scene is close to hilarious. Runs until the 29th

By Pepper Parr November 26, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON   With just two people on the stage and other than a table and a couple of […]

Festival of Lights makes the trip to Spencer Smith Park well worth the effort

By Staff November 26th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It is a little difficult to get a sense of a holiday season with the weather as warm […]

Will the Skyway arena get a major makover or will the city build a brand new building? Might depend on what gets done with the Lakeside Village Plaza.

By Pepper Parr November 25, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Skyway arena is getting a really close look from the people who do the thinking at […]

Thief goes into rooms of seniors while they are having dinner and steals their cash and bank cards.

By Staff November 25, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It doesn’t get more foul than this – a female sneaking into the rooms of seniors at a […]

Ward 5 residents meet to say what they think should happen to the Lakeside Plaza and the Skyway arena.

By Pepper Parr November 25, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON   It was close to the largest citizen’s meeting this reporter has seen in Burlington. And no […]

Regional police want to surpass the 4000 families it helped last season - give them a hand.

By Staff November 24, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON As we enter the holiday season, the focus becomes the hustle and bustle of shopping, dinner parties and […]

Burlington detachment police partner with Hamilton and Grimsby to arrest criminals who went on a ten day crime spree.

By Staff November 24, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Most police work is day to day drudgery – driving around with eyes peeled for behaviour that looks […]

Preparing for a storm water tax - there is nothing simple about this one.

By Pepper Parr November 24th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON When a new tax is created more than one department at city hall gets involved. The Finance […]

Halton Crime Stoppers joins a coalition to stop the sale of illegal cigarettes by gangs of criminals

By Pepper Parr November 23, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON There isn’t a parent out there that encourages their child to smoke. Some may tolerate the habit […]

CineStarz Showtimes: Week of Friday, November 27, 2015 through Thursday, December 03, 2015

Ciné-Starz Upper Canada Place, Burlington, ON L7R 4B6   Showtimes: Week of Friday, November 27, 2015 through Thursday, December 03, 2015 The 33 () Fri […]

Elementary public school teachers take a tentative deal to their 2800 members - particulars to follow.

By Staff November 23, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The wind has gone out of any sail that may have been propelling a teachers strike at the […]

What your tax dollars are actually spent on - the increase for 2016 will be well above inflation.

Assume a residential Current Value Assessment (CVA) of $417,645,000 – the tax bill would amount to $1, 625.18 Here is how the city allocates and […]

A new tax coming our way - storm water management tax is thought to come in at $50 to $100 for a small household - malls and churches will take a big hit.

By Pepper Parr November 23, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Storm water management began getting all kinds of attention soon after the floods of 2014 but it […]

Architect looking for older pictures of the Skyway Plaza on Lakeshore Road east.

By Staff November 22, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Do you happen to have any photographs of the Lakeside Plaza taken way way back when it was […]

What does a possible 3.85% tax increase look like in graphic form? What does our tax hit look like when compared with others?

By Pepper Parr November 20, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON What do we know about ourselves as taxpayers – and how do we compare with other jurisdictions […]

Alert citizen reports another impaired driver - two in one day - both along Guelph Line area.

By Staff November 22, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Regional police working out of the Burlington detachment seem to have a brigade of citizens working for […]

By the end of the year some of the refugees will be with us - while Europeans deal with the daily fear that guns may blaze on their streets.

By Ray Rivers November 21, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON There is a huge difference between passively supporting a nation’s people by training their military, providing arms […]

The Barracudas found another Gold medal - four so far this month.

By Staff November 21, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It must be awkward when you lose track of just how many gold medals you’ve won – that […]

Citizen makes the right call and reports an impaired driver who drove into a ditch.

By Staff November 21, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Citizen makes the right call and reports an impaired driver who drove into a ditch (Burlington) Friday night, […]