August 2013 Archive

A word of thanks from Aurora Food Pantry

Thank you to all those who have supported the Aurora Food Pantry over the past years. We continue to need donations throughout the summer and ...

Aurora deserves good government

Re: Brock’s Banter – The Money Pit (July 24, 2013) Your article hit the nail on the head, if I may add to your cliches. ...

BROCK’S BANTER: Kickstarter Aurora

By Brock Weir It has been a very good year for Kickstarter. Chances are, if you hadn’t heard of this online service 12 months ago, ...

OTTAWA REPORT

By Lois Brown, MP Newmarket-Aurora Increasing Competition in the Wireless Sector The Big Three telecoms – Bell, Rogers, and Telus – have launched a public ...

FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE: Energy 2

Siting of Large Energy Infrastructure Projects – Part II By Stephen Somerville In my last column I mentioned that an important public policy consultation had ...

SENIOR SCAPE: Healthy in body…

Healthy in Body, Mind and Spirit By Jim L. Abram Activities and Events at your Aurora Seniors’ Centre are not there just to keep busy. ...

POLITICS AS USUAL: Here we go again!

By Alison Collins-Mrakas Yet another municipality is faced with the reality of a Council that could choose to appoint someone to elected office and take ...

INSIDE AURORA

By Scott Johnston Once again the well-intentioned folks at the Town have presented me with one of those good news/bad news scenarios. As you may ...

MARKET MUSINGS

By Jan Freedman It’s now August at the Farmers’ Market and there’s not very much that the farmers don’t have yet on their tables. There ...

FRANKLY SPEAKING: Truth to Power

Telling Truth to Power By Frank Klees, MPP Newmarket-Aurora Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil made it a habit to speak truth to power and ...

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