Overall thoughts on FCM 2016 This was an amazing few days.  It was very much like UBCM in that it was jam packed with information that was useful to take 'home'. FCM does not have quite as much direct access to Ministers of government as UBCM but what it lacks there, it gains in intensity of …
Continue reading "Federation of Canadian Municipalities – Winnipeg 2016 – Rolling Blog!"
Note: The FOI documents had to be run though an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program so that they would be searchable and copy/paste-able.  This causes some character (letter/symbol) errors with the original text that may show up in the quotes even though I have tried to catch them all. Update: 6 months later, the information was un-redacted. …
Continue reading "BC Wildfire Tanker Cost FOI – The Devil is in the -redacted- Details"
Updated with my initial statement added first. And some grammar and other errors cleaned up. Here are my thoughts on this issue... It's not the direction I would have preferred simply because of past experience. Other communities have gone in different directions and have being growing while we stagnate. I can't help but believe this direction …
Continue reading "Old ideas die hard in the dark – the Plywood Site"
