From My Bottom Step

Joint Venture Agreement

Major announcements imminent?

Build It Yourself

Are you a DIY type? If so, you may appreciate the “definitive guide” to 2009 open source hardware projects by the folks over at Make Magazine.

What’s great about these hardware projects is that the creators have released “all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and “board” files to recreate the hardware” and have given permission for people to put them to … Continue Reading

Speaking Lens

A project that may be of interest to local photographers.

Police Release – Project L.E.A.R.N.

An update about project L.E.A.R.N.

Students

Another great XKCD comic.

Gosnell Fails to Derail Wish List

When staff put together a list of projects for Council to consider which might succeed in qualifying for the stimulus funding being offered by the province and the feds, it was based upon the premise that projects must be completed before March of 2011.

In explaining that staff had put forward projects that they thought were a priority AND could be done within the restricted time period, Vic Cote said: “these are only short-term projects… these are investments that the City would not normally have done… there is not a pothole in this list that will be fixed…” Continue Reading

Zero-Waste Public Events

A delegation representing TREA, Waste Free World and … Continue Reading

The Bell Public Art Project

During last year’s municipal election campaign, I suggested a number of anti-graffitti remedies that could be tried, including business-sponsored public murals.

According to the City of London website, Bell Canada undertook a pilot project as part of the City of London’s Graffiti Management Strategy. It’s similar to a previous Toronto project that I posted about on my blog last April (click … Continue Reading

New Help for Struggling London Families

In today’s London Free Press, “Pilot project offers help to struggling city families” by Patrick Maloney describes a new pilot project called Family Networks which will hopefully reduce the number of Children’s Aid Society interventions which are necessary.

“Networks Project Adds Up” (LFP editorial)  discloses that there are “850 kids under age 16 are in CAS care here,” a dramatic doubling of local kids entering … Continue Reading

2006 Fowler Election Platform – Taxes

as originally posted on my Election Website

I believe that there is a very serious problem with the way that municipalities are expected to finance their operations. “While the federal government racks up huge surpluses, the cities fall deeper into debt. Is it any wonder we are falling further behind the rest of the world? This approach to governance no longer makes sense, if it ever did.” … Continue Reading