There goes the football and the opportunity to do some spectacular planning

By Pepper Parr May 11th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   WHERE While much of the recent attention has been on the ongoing saga related to the […]

Price of everything is going up: Food Bank donations are not rising - but the need is

By Pepper Parr May 10th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   The squeeze is on – everywhere. Gas prices are sucking up more of the budget than […]

Rocca Sisters on Real Estate: It is still a sellers market but things are begin to open up for buyers

By Staff May 10th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   The Rocca Sisters have been on the front line of residential property sales for at least a […]

May 31st - Performing Arts announces its 2022-23 season. Become a member and get to the front of the ticket line

By Pepper Parr May 10th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   The 2022-23 Performing Arts season will be announced on May 31st. The demand for tickets hits […]

Burlington photographer's work part of a juried exhibition

By Staff May 10th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Frank Meyers took to photography a number of years ago. He happened to have a good eye […]

The Port Nelson Park is going to get an upgrade - and the Green Street Window on the Lake will get the attention it needs

By Pepper Parr May 10th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Progress! We wrote about the Windows on the Lake last week as the result of an […]

Service Burlington counter moving to new temporary location at 390 Brant St., directly beside City Hall, starting Wednesday, May 11

By Staff May 9th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Service Burlington, currently located at 426 Brant St., will temporarily move to a new location on the […]

How City Hall refused to share information: We push for better transparency - your job is to demand it.

By Pepper Parr May 9th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Every reporter strives for accuracy – they listen hard to what people are saying – waiting […]

Impact of COVID19 on 131,624 Halton caregivers: what were the lessons learned? Not very many

By Staff May 9th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON Part 2: Caregivers. This Community Lens, the second in a two-part series on caregiving, will draw from the […]

The chess pieces on the election chess board are moving into place.

By Pepper Parr May 9th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   On the surface there isn’t all that much in the way of news about the October […]

What do the Political Parties Have to say About Income Security - Subject Experts will do a Deep Dive on the Problems

By Staff May 9th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Community Development Halton and the Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton are hosting a web cast […]

Rivers makes an early election call - leaves some, but not much, room for an upset. Four more years for Doug

By Ray Rivers May 9th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON OPINION When the results are all tabulated sometime after June 2nd, Doug Ford will be back in […]

Jim Thompson ask some pretty direct questions: How did the LPMA manage to spend a reported $97,000 on legal costs.

By Pepper Parr May 8th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Today is the kind of day the boaters would have been out washing down the decks […]

Processes, procedures and protocols could be the death of the marina

By Pepper Parr May 8th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Burlington could be on the verge of losing the Marina it has had since the early […]

Are the politicians muddying the Marina insurance problem?

By Pepper Parr May 7th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Social media is one of the communication channels that gets a bad wrap. The politicians will […]

Covering an active election and a simmering one at the same time.

By Pepper Parr May 7th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   Covering a provincial level election that is critical in terms of the leadership the province will […]

Burlington's Windows on the Lake - a sad history.

By Pepper Parr May 7th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   A Gazette reader wrote: “Hi I’ve been looking down Green Street for more than six years […]

Marina will not open as planned - new date cannot be set until insurance issues are resolved.

By Staff May 6th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   This is an unfortunate situation that could have and should have been looked into some time ago. […]

Service Burlington counter is closed - too much construction noise - but marriage license appointments are still taking place.

By Staff May 6th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   The Service Burlington counter that was on the main floor of city hall was moved to the […]

Property tax payment dates - and what the taxes amount to

By Staff May 6th, 2022 BURLINGTON, ON   After a decent day in a Standing Committee during which the city DID WHAt Council moved into […]