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Ten year old watches as $5 grows into $410 - right before her eyes. By Staff December 5, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Odd how some things happen. Steve Howse was facilitating the public meeting on what the people of […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X	Joseph Brant Hospital close to final concrete pour - on target for the 2018 opening. By Staff December 5th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The people at the Joseph Brant Hospital re-build and re-development site are getting almost giddy – the last […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X
Public school board has tentative agreement with occasional teachers. By Staff December 4th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Someone at the Halton District School Board is working overtime the board has been announcing tentative agreements with […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X	Mapping and GIS service off line on December 7th, 2015 NOTICE Mapping and GIS unavailable the evening of Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 The City of Burlington is updating their mapping and GIS systems. As a […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X
Burlington to get an additional provincial electoral district for 2018 election By Staff December 4, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The provincial government has added new constituencies that will result in 122 Electoral Ridings after the next provincial […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X	Performing Arts Centre has robust program for December. By Staff December 4th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Performing Arts Centre has a robust program for the month of December that starts with the annual […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X
Is that a Pot of Coffee or Pot in your Coffee? Rivers comes out for legalization of marijuana. By Ray Rivers December 4th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Imagine a ‘pot’ of coffee – made with real pot. In the late sixties we were encouraged […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X	Collard fails to hold her vice chair slot on the public Board of Education: Amos returned as chair and Graves - out of Milton gets elected as vice chair. By Walter Byj December 3, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It had all the signs of being a routine election. Each December, the Halton District School Board […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X
Burlington shows why it was named the best mid-sized city in the country - 400 helping hands at Mainway recreation centre offering to help the Syrian refugees By Pepper Parr December 3, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON City’s do not get opportunities to show their true colours that often. For Burlington the place to […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X	Councillor Jack Dennison opposed to staff report on the re-build of the Nelson Pool. By Pepper Parr December 3, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Watching a ward politician work really hard for his constituents is a beautiful thing to observe. Ward […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X
Karina Gould appointed Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of International development. By Pepper Parr December 2, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON This is big news – for someone with Karina Gould’s background, age and political experience to be […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X	Her name is Eleeza and she wanted to be able to give a toy to refugee children arriving in Canada next week. By Pepper Parr December 2, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON “My name is Eleeza”: she said during the public meeting on Syrian refugees held at the Mainway […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X
Police arrest woman who they believe stole cash and credit cards from retirement home rooms while the residents were at a meal. By Staff December 2, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Karen FRANKLIN, 45 yrs of Hamilton was arrested at her Hamilton residence and charged with five counts of […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X	Performinmg Arts Centre budget request creeping closer to $1 million - Economic impact study claims they add $7.8 million to the local economy. By Pepper Parr December 2, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON Part of the budget process Burlington uses is the presenting of business cases for new spending. The […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X
Santa Claus parade celebrates its 50th year - a sleigh added for Mrs. Claus this year By Staff December 4, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The Ho Ho Ho man is coming. Santa will be on his sleigh as part of the annual […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X	Free parking in the downtown core for all of December. A hoot of a video to promote the program. By Staff December 1, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON It starts today – free parking in the Downtown Core. A freebie from the city – designed to […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X
CineStarz Showtimes: Week of Friday, December 04, 2015 through Thursday, December 10, 2015 Ciné-Starz Upper Canada Place, Burlington, ON Burlington, ON L7R 4B6 Week of Friday, December 04, 2015 through Thursday, December 10, 2015 The 33 () […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X	Ten possible names for the lover she wished she'd never met. Regional resident got conned; the lover got to wear handcuffs. By Staff November 30th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON A 60-year-old victim from the Region met the man police recently arrested through an on-line dating site in […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X
Maintenance workers at public school just have to ratify the agreement - and the schools will smell nice again. By Staff November 30th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON The hallways and the washrooms in Halton’s public schools are going to be a lot cleaner than they […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X	Music teacher arrested on three sexual assault charges at public schools. By Pepper Parr November 30th, 2015 BURLINGTON, ON These stories are tragic. The moment names are put into the public domain there are hundreds of […] Share this: LinkedIn Email Tumblr Facebook More Print X