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No Guelph appetite for short sighted hard right moves |
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Alan Pickersgill: The view from here. Time to teach a lesson. Conservative mischief hurts the chamber →. Thursday, 26 June, 2014 · 4:10 pm. No Guelph appetite for short sighted hard right moves. There were no big surprises in the June 12 provincial election results. I think everyone knew Liz Sandals would get back in. Wynne’s two main contenders, Tim Hudak and Andrea Horwath, took careful aim at her and shot themselves in the foot. This wasn’t the only platform malfunction that plagued Horwath’s campaign...
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Transit lockout: a management failure |
https://alanpickersgill.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/transit-lockout-a-management-failure
Alan Pickersgill: The view from here. Conservative mischief hurts the chamber. Politicians must give voters a reason to go to the polls →. Thursday, 24 July, 2014 · 9:00 am. Transit lockout: a management failure. Earlier this week, local union president Andrew Cleary sent an e-mail to the CBC in Kitchener. It said he was prepared to endure the lockout until after the October elections. The workers at Guelph Transit are angry and someone in the city should ask them why. Part of the answer will take us...
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October | 2014 |
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Alan Pickersgill: The view from here. Monthly Archives: October 2014. Thursday, 02 October, 2014 · 5:06 pm. Clearing up some municipal misconceptions. There are a couple of misconceptions about municipal elections that won’t go away. One is that it doesn’t matter who is the mayor because she only has one vote. The other is that partisan politics doesn’t exist at the local level. Yes, it matters, and yes, it does exist. The mayor represents us at provincial, federal and international conferences. Similarl...
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Think globally, vote locally |
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Alan Pickersgill: The view from here. Urbacon: why are we in this mess? Time to teach a lesson →. Thursday, 08 May, 2014 · 5:30 pm. Think globally, vote locally. We recently returned home after a week in east Tennessee. It’s one of my favourite places outside of Canada, full of rich history, good mountain music and memorable literature. It sits on the edge of the Smoky Mountains, close to Kentucky, West Virginia and North Carolina. We got home last Friday, the day on which the province wandered into a ge...
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| Most of this content consists of opinion columns from the Guelph Tribune written between September 1995 and December 2012. Material from 2013 forward is written just for this blog, unless noted otherwise. | Page 2
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Alan Pickersgill: The view from here. Newer posts →. Thursday, 10 April, 2014 · 5:03 pm. Urbacon: why are we in this mess? In modern political life perception trumps reality. If a politician can get out of the gate quickly with a strongly presented position, it has a good chance of sticking. At the same time, if the position is not effectively developed, a negative perception will carry the day. Guthrie’s hasty response may have damaged the city’s ability to argue an appeal if it chooses to do so. At...
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Conservative mischief hurts the chamber |
https://alanpickersgill.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/conservative-mischief-hurts-the-chamber
Alan Pickersgill: The view from here. No Guelph appetite for short sighted hard right moves. Transit lockout: a management failure →. Thursday, 17 July, 2014 · 6:30 pm. Conservative mischief hurts the chamber. I was going to stay out of the latest tempest in a Tory teapot, but after reading last Saturday’s Mercury I find myself drawn in. If the chamber is going to organize all-candidate meetings during elections, Longfield must strictly guard its nonpartisan nature, I told him. At first I was happy to gi...
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Clearing up some municipal misconceptions |
https://alanpickersgill.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/clearing-up-some-municipal-misconceptions
Alan Pickersgill: The view from here. Politicians must give voters a reason to go to the polls. Thursday, 02 October, 2014 · 5:06 pm. Clearing up some municipal misconceptions. There are a couple of misconceptions about municipal elections that won’t go away. One is that it doesn’t matter who is the mayor because she only has one vote. The other is that partisan politics doesn’t exist at the local level. Yes, it matters, and yes, it does exist. George Drew was elected mayor of Guelph in 1925 and went fro...
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Alan Pickersgill: The view from here |
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Alan Pickersgill: The view from here. Alan Pickersgill: The view from here. This web site mostly contains columns written for the Guelph Tribune. When they began in 1995, they were published every two weeks. There was a bit of a break from the summer of 2003 when I made an unsuccessful attempt to get elected to Guelph city council. They got going again in 2007. In June 2008 they became a weekly feature. In January 2010 the columns moved from the Tuesday edition to Thursdays. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Time to teach a lesson |
https://alanpickersgill.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/time-to-teach-a-lesson
Alan Pickersgill: The view from here. Think globally, vote locally. No Guelph appetite for short sighted hard right moves →. Thursday, 05 June, 2014 · 8:52 pm. Time to teach a lesson. The provincial election is creeping towards a conclusion next Thursday. The party leaders have not given voters much reason to get off their couches. They haven’t inspired confidence or built enthusiasm. The strategic voting chickens have come to rule the roost. What is it that people don’t like? The rest of it? Hudak would...
