{"id":8767,"date":"2014-10-29T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=8767"},"modified":"2014-10-29T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:09:00","slug":"aurora-needs-progressive-action-on-ward-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-needs-progressive-action-on-ward-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora needs \u201cprogressive\u201d action on ward system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: Ward system would be \u201ccounterintuitive\u201d to Aurora\u2019s small-town feel. October 15, 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We read Mr. Wride\u2019s comments as to why a ward system for Aurora would be counterintuitive with interest. While all opinions are interesting, he uses Mayor Dawe\u2019s term for a ward system as being parochial once again.<br \/>\nWhat is narrow-minded about citizens wanting representations for their specific neighbourhoods? Why would a ward approach detract from the \u201csmall town\u201d atmosphere?<br \/>\nAurora is not a small town anymore. We have \u201cbig town\u201d neighbourhood issues needing attention. How can an individual Councillor possibly be interested in all Aurora\u2019s neighbourhoods? Why would a ward system be divisive if the citizens\u2019 neighbourhood\u2019s needs were being met?<br \/>\nMr. Wride\u2019s letter ends by stating it would be less democratic. There is a great leap in logic here.<br \/>\nCanada\u2019s Federal and Provincial parliamentary systems are based on individual MPs elected on the basis of specific areas. Aurora needs to move forward on a progressive basis with a ward system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Greenhough<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Ward system would be \u201ccounterintuitive\u201d to Aurora\u2019s small-town feel. October 15, 2014) We read Mr. Wride\u2019s comments as to why a ward system for Aurora would be counterintuitive with interest. While all opinions are interesting, he uses Mayor Dawe\u2019s term for a ward system as being parochial once again. What is narrow-minded about citizens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}