The last term of council was surely the term from hell. Its hard to imagine now, that the future could be worse but that is what I predict. The problem with being a doom sayer is that nobody will thank you if you are right and nobody will thank you if you are wrong.
That past council had to deal with:
1. COVID pandemic
2. Resignation of the OPS board and police chief (Deans and Watson show the worst side of politics)
3. The urban /rural vote splitting on council
4. The trucker convoy Fiasco
5. The muck from the LRT derailment, the faulty PPP process, Manconi resigns, public inquiry
6. Four emergencies: Climate Change, Affordable Housing, Child Poverty, Black Lives Matter
I live and work in Overbrook and my councillor Rawlson King resigned from OPS in sympathy with other OPS board members after they did their job and appointed an interim chief. My problem with this is that when the going got tough... he quit.
Maybe that was the political thing to do but if I had been there I would have dug my heels in.
I believe that the next term will be worse. The economy will be in the tank. Interest rates will rise, food prices will rise, people will be laid off, government will find it impossible to pay its bills, the some will to be too hot and people affected by high prices will be even hotter.
Don, Not too many residents would give Jim Watson high marks at this point. Three candidates so far for his job: Rick's cousin Bob, Diane Deans and Catherine McKenney. https://bellscorners.wordpress.com/2022-municipal-elections/
The last term of council was surely the term from hell. Its hard to imagine now, that the future could be worse but that is what I predict. The problem with being a doom sayer is that nobody will thank you if you are right and nobody will thank you if you are wrong.
That past council had to deal with:
1. COVID pandemic
2. Resignation of the OPS board and police chief (Deans and Watson show the worst side of politics)
3. The urban /rural vote splitting on council
4. The trucker convoy Fiasco
5. The muck from the LRT derailment, the faulty PPP process, Manconi resigns, public inquiry
6. Four emergencies: Climate Change, Affordable Housing, Child Poverty, Black Lives Matter
I live and work in Overbrook and my councillor Rawlson King resigned from OPS in sympathy with other OPS board members after they did their job and appointed an interim chief. My problem with this is that when the going got tough... he quit.
Maybe that was the political thing to do but if I had been there I would have dug my heels in.
I believe that the next term will be worse. The economy will be in the tank. Interest rates will rise, food prices will rise, people will be laid off, government will find it impossible to pay its bills, the some will to be too hot and people affected by high prices will be even hotter.
Don, Not too many residents would give Jim Watson high marks at this point. Three candidates so far for his job: Rick's cousin Bob, Diane Deans and Catherine McKenney. https://bellscorners.wordpress.com/2022-municipal-elections/
Why is Jim Watson not on the results list?
I live in an outer-urban inner-suburban outer-rural ward. https://bellscorners.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/rural-suburban-or-urban/