By Robert Washburn As Canadians celebrated Canada Day with great pride over the past weekend, a pale...
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Column for local newspaper
By Robert Washburn Municipal government is quickly becoming a place where citizens and politicians can no longer...
By Robert Washburn Far too many times local municipal councils take an iron fist approach to dealing...
By Robert Washburn The revitalization studies examining the downtown business in Port Hope and Cobourg may end...
By Robert Washburn As the ice disappears on Rice Lake and the waterways of the Trent fill...
By Robert Washburn Cobourg Mayor Gil Brocanier cautiously told a local cable show host last week he...
By Robert Washburn As Northumberland municipal leaders focus great energy these days trying to revitalize downtown businesses...
By Robert Washburn Senate reform is back in the news and for all the wrong reasons, making...
By Robert Washburn As the new Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne settles into her role, municipal politicians and...
By Robert Washburn As the provincial Tories ratchet up the war against unions, it recently co-opted municipal...