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POINT-COUNTERPOINT: CITY BUDGET for website design beyond reason
City of Pickering has budgeted $900,000 for modifying and maintaining its new website (delivery sometime in 2024). This is absolutely insane if taken at face value. Every web design and managing company has been astounded by this budget figure. The … Continue reading
WRITERS: 8 tips for reading poetry in front of an audience
POINT-COUNTERPOINT: Hospital possibility muddled by FORD
Premier Doug Ford stated that a hospital was to be built in the Durham region, in Ajax. However, the Premier is playing with the promise as if it were a hacky sack ball. Read the full story –> HOSPITAL _____________________ … Continue reading
PICKERING: TOWN HALL, Ward 1 & 2
This Town Hall will be co-hosted by Councillors Brenner, Cook and Nagy. The presentation will focus on Environmental issues relating to the City of Pickering culminating in a Q&A session. The City is developing its first Community Climate Adaptation Plan. The … Continue reading
POINT-COUNTERPOINT: PICKERING FINANCES – Tranparency vs Transgression?
People wonder if civil servants are spending appropriately. Are they dipping into the public purse or spending their own dime. Just as importantly, citizens want to know how their money is being spent: TRANSPARENCY vs TRANSGRESSION. [COMMENTARY that is anonymous … Continue reading
TOOLS4WRITERS: SCRIVENER* – A writing tool for serious writers*
The VIDEO is a approximately 5-10 minute overview of SCRIVENER. (It is a rudimentary video as I was teaching myself how to create videos on my website, but it will give you an excellent overview of SCRIVENER.)
EDITORIAL: City of Pickering Website near $1 mill website budget looks catrastrophic
The City of Pickering has budgeted nearly $1 million for website makeover. To say that this is absurd budgeting may be a gross understatement. No matter which website designers I speak with, TD Bank, Toronto web design, even in my … Continue reading
ANTHONY’s Notes: Keeping you up to date on the CANDIDATE NOMINATION News
The CANDIDATE NOMINATION process for PICKERING UXBRIDGE has been the center of confusion. Some candidates have withdrawn, others have sunk into the woodwork, while others have been surrounded by controversy, viz. Anthony Yacub. Anthony Yacub threw his hat into the … Continue reading
WORKSHOPS Newsletter, 4/2/24
Hey everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful long weekend.  Thanks so much for your interest in receiving updates on writing-related programming at the Pickering Public Library. I promise not to invade your inboxes too often.  For those … Continue reading
ONTARIO: Provincial Budget
Provincial Budget links: The BUDGETÂ Long Term Care HOME in Pickering Bethlenfalvy APRIL NEWSLETTER
EDITORIAL: Conservative Party plays the blood sport passionately
Politics is a blood sport, unfamiliar to the common voter. It’s a game that is populated by the treacherous and black-hearted. Remember “E tu Brute?” Well, the sport is alive, well and practiced with a passion in Canada today. Read … Continue reading
WRITERS OF NOTE: Writers worth learning from…
There are many professional writers from whom budding or developing writers can learn. This is an ongoing list of writers I respect and think are examples of excellent journalism: Katharine Lake Berz Berz is a frequent contributor to various Canadian … Continue reading