Consider This (https://consider-this.ca/2014/04/14/)
By Robert Washburn
I would like to thank Councillor Forrest Rowden for his response to my column, in which the relevant excerpt is publish on Consider This. Mr. Rowden deserves equal time and space on this website in all fairness and for balance. Sadly, I made a really dumbass error. I called his fellow councillor Jay Sherwin instead of Larry Sherwin. Jay was on council with Rowden in Hamilton Township back in the 1990s. Continue Reading →
This is an excerpt from a column by Councillor Forrest Rowden entitled: Please abide by Town bylaws
I would like to let you know that I do support dog owners in the Town of Cobourg. I have been working with Councillor Larry Sherwin (not Jay Sherwin as columnist Robert Washburn indicated in last week’s column) for the last three years to secure a suitable off-leash site so that no one is in violation of any bylaws. The conservation area, also known as James Cockburn Park, is a park for everyone and not just a ‘dog park’. All conservation areas within the Ganaraska Region Conservation Area allow dogs to walk with their owners on leash only, which has been a rule of the GRCA for quite some time. Cobourg Council is trying to accommodate all types of users, which is why we have a library, a skating rink downtown, Legion and soccer fields, walking and bike trails, and bicycle lanes for cyclists to feel safer when riding on our streets. Continue Reading →
By Robert Washburn
If young people had voted in greater numbers during the last federal election, Stephen Harper would not be running this country, according to a recent study. Despite where one sits in the political spectrum, that is a shocking statement. But according to pollster Nik Nanos, his research suggests this is absolutely true. Even more prophetic, he says the tone and content of the political debate at the time would have been very different, as well. Working with the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Nanos examined what would have happened if a majority of young people had voted in the last federal election. Continue Reading →
As part of the Crosstalk show, at CBC Newfoundland and Labrador, I was involved in a call-in about the future of community newspapers last Wednesday. Transcontinental Media shut down The Georgian, covering Bay St. George; the Coaster, from Harbour Breton; and the Charter, which covered the Placentia area. These have all been rolled into the nearby regional newspapers. It has also added a paywall metred system to the St. Continue Reading →