Windsor is current reviewing it's Community Improvement Plans (CIPs) and it has a bunch of them! A full list of all of the city's development incentives are available and to provide extra context the following are summaries of the existing CIPs created by the City: Brownfield Redevelopment CIP Downtown CIP Economic Revitalization CIP Ford City … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Community Improvement Plans
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A Few Thoughts For Memorial Day
This week's council meeting has a few hot button issues that all boil down to a single root cause. The big one is the return of the Jackson Park Bandshell which is now recommended to become a monument. A report from Administration on the flag-raising, proclamations and other municipal recognitions policy changes moving forward. Not … Continue reading A Few Thoughts For Memorial Day
A Few Thoughts on the 2025 Municipal Budget
If you like this blog you can subscribe on the sidebar or at the bottom of the page on your mobile device. If you want hear things that relate to this blog, the Council Conversation Podcast (link in the top bar, here and on all major podcast platforms) which zooms out and looks at SW Ontario more broadly. … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on the 2025 Municipal Budget
Things I am Watching in 2025
As I am off of most social media the best way to know when I post something is to subscribe. Although I do occasionally cross post to platforms, I am making an effort to stay off most platforms in 2025. So you subscribe to the blog with your email, every post (typos and all) will … Continue reading Things I am Watching in 2025
Books I read in 2024 & books I should read in 2025
As I am off of most social media the best way to know when I post something is to subscribe. Although I do occasionally cross post to platforms, my efforts (shaped by some of the reading below) to stay off those platforms in 2025. So you can subscribe to the blog with your email and … Continue reading Books I read in 2024 & books I should read in 2025
Back at it?!?!?!
Part of the reason why I have been so quiet here is I have been busy working on a submission for the Hunter Prize which is provided by the Hub.ca. Ten finalists were selected from over 300 applicants, with each finalist asked to craft an Op-Ed and a longer research essay. It was an honour … Continue reading Back at it?!?!?!
In the Windsor Star Today
So I was featured in the Windsor Star today. Although the article is speaking on an important issue that needs to be discussed, I am disappointed with it in one aspect. The main takeaway from my portion of the article is the following sentence: “There just aren’t that many opportunities in the city,” Fathers said. … Continue reading In the Windsor Star Today
What if Detroit hosted the UN?
The announcement of Detroit's bankruptcy was a long time coming with much ink being spilled on the city's demographic conflagrations and mismanagement. The collapses of the city's economic base that supported the jobs that kept the people in the area, to the out and out criminal activity of municipal office holders, all have given the City of Detroit … Continue reading What if Detroit hosted the UN?
Turks and Caicos and Canada – A match made in heaven?
The Premier of the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos, Rufus Ewing was in Ottawa today (May 26, 2014) and as always happens when the Turks and Caicos comes up, media stories (here, here, here and here) emerged floating the idea about Canada annexing the Caribbean island chain and it becoming the nation's 11th … Continue reading Turks and Caicos and Canada – A match made in heaven?
Reader Interaction!!! YAY!!!
So I am curious if any of the people who follow my blog want me to research or write about something? I don't claim to be an expert on everything but I do enjoy researching and reading about new topics and then providing my partially informed opinion on that topic. Does anyone out there have … Continue reading Reader Interaction!!! YAY!!!
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