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In the midst of debates surrounding the future of law enforcement in Sarnia, a critical question emerges: where should the city’s resources be directed to ensure public safety and community well-being? As the police chief pushes for a new police building that could cost up to $40 million, the entire city is rallying together to […]

On Dec 03, 2022 the Sarnia Police issued a tragic press release entitled “Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Continue” as a warning to highlight the gravity of the substance and the dangers associated. The goal of the release was to warn and hopefully prevent future overdoses and situations in which could go awry. It first speaks to

Today I received notice of yet another Integrity Comissioner complaint against me. This one is because I publicly shared the first Integrity Comissioner Complaint. I am now going to share this current complaint in it’s entirety as well. I am guilty yet again of breaking confidentiality by releasing this complaint. I shared the first complaint

— Click here to read the latest Integrity Comissioner complaint lodged against me. A few days ago, I was made aware that another Integrity Comissioner complaint was lodged against me. As always, in the interests of tranparency, I am sharing what the complaint was against me. The irony is that I am not supposed to

I had made a motion in a closed meeting on Dec 13, 2022 to release this letter which was not successful (read entire story here). Since then, multiple organizations in Sarnia have been reaching out to our council encouraging us to release it. Now that KOJO has stated that they have no problems with making

Thanks to Rev. Adam Kilner for rallying churches in Sarnia to come out publicly in support of Bill C-6 and oppose our MP Marilyn Gladu’s opposition and petition to try and amend or abolish the bill. (more context here and here). These things are important to put in the history books and are helpful for

In my foray into politics I was struck early on of the different kinds of politicians that there are. At the risk of oversimplifying, I would put them into two categories. The first group are those that are politicians based on their values. They have a worldview that is made up of certain values, and

Back in June 2019, Councillor Bill Dennis made the following motion. That Staff be directed to complete a staff report on the potential to regulate short term rental platforms (such as Airbnb) within the City of Sarnia within the next 30 days. I understand the Planning advisory Committee is looking at bed and breakfasts under

In our corporate strategies meeting last week, I brought up what I thought to be an important issue on how the staff and council communicates big projects to the public. I said that: I’m thinking of something like Centennial Park where staff was here, public was here, and council was here. And everyone was on

Ever since campaigning for council in 2018, there has been this message floating around that Sarnia needs population growth. Somehow it worked as a campaign strategy for councilors saying they were going to focus on growing our population. More recently the mayor has been touting that “we need to get that percentage number up,” said