Publisher’s Column: Businesses Push Back Against Municipal Accommodation Tax Extension
By John Francis
As often happens to politicians, our municipal councillors are being given contradictory instructions by different groups of MNBP citizens.
Loud instructions.
As Mayor Milt...
Publisher’s Column: What If We Lived in a County Where All...
By John Francis
So Bruce County pushed ahead with its Development Charge of $7,800 per new house despite the objections of Northern Bruce Peninsula. Our...
Publisher’s Column: Property Taxes Must Go Up By About 10%. But...
By John Francis
There are a few piles of old newspapers in my home office. They sit there, waiting patiently for me to figure out...
Publisher’s Column: Is Solar Power the Peninsula’s Crop of the Future?
By John Francis
On June 26, a delegation from Shift Solar asked MNBP Council to support a proposal to install a solar farm at the...
Publisher’s Column: Arena Reno – Is $1,121,000 for a Construction Manager...
By John Francis
The Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula has allotted ten million dollars towards a major renovation of the arena and community centre in...
Dragging Bruce County’s Budget Out of the 19th Century
By John Francis
When he appeared as a delegation to MNBP Council on Sept 11, Bruce County Director of Corporate Services, Edward Henley came to...
Publisher’s Column: Radon Gas — the Elephant in Our Rooms
By John Francis
You know the old joke:
Representatives from France, Germany, the USA and Canada are assembled to present papers on the subject of elephants.
The...
Publisher’s Column: NWT Premier is Angry. Why Aren’t We?
By John Francis
Excerpt from a news story on the CBC website, running under the headline:
‘Now I’m angry’: N.W.T. premier calls on Ottawa to provide...
Publisher’s Column: Wouldn’t It Be Lovely to Have Something as Nice...
By John Francis
Our whole family went down to Bluewater Park to watch the finish of the Bruce Peninsula Multisport Race — the one that...
Publisher’s Column: With Any Luck the New Normal Is a Lot...
By John Francis
Things were different during the pandemic. Most of our community’s public events dried up for two-plus years. And with no public events...