The electronics used to run council meetings—microphones, the computer that queues up speakers, the overhead “Elmo” projector, etc.—haven’t worked properly for at least two years, and the system has been ridiculously broken over the past month or so, with some mics not working at all, councillors dropped on and off the speaker system randomly, etc. […]
Municipal Politics
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City Council Report Card 2009
It’s the end of the school year, so once again, it’s time for The Coast’s annual city council report card. This is a thankless chore—city councillors hate me for it, readers troll up the comments section on thecoast.ca with words like “douchebag” and “idiot,” my few remaining friends shake their heads in dismay. But hey, […]
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Class dismissed
Howard Windsor had just arrived home from his morning skate. There was a phone message. Please call Dennis Cochrane, the province’s deputy minister of education, it said. Windsor had an inkling what it might be about. Still, he didn’t immediately return the call. He went upstairs to change into his jogging clothes first. It was […]