by Sharon Collingwood | Apr 12, 2025 | Open Government |
With the retirement of Joan Thompson, the City of Stratford is looking for a new CAO. This is not just another boring administrative detail, but an extremely important step for us, as Loreena McKennitt made clear in a recent presentation to Council. The CAO...
by Sharon Collingwood | Apr 10, 2025 | Open Government |
This is a very geeky post, written for fellow activists responsible for the data their organization collects. For those who are just interested in whether the U.S. government is peeking in to their personal affairs, here’s a short summary of what we learned for...
by Sharon Collingwood | Apr 3, 2025 | Open Government |
“We hope this is a blip,and not a trend to more secrecy.” Last month Mike Sullivan spoke at the Stratford Rotary Club on Get Concerned Stratford’s role in the 2020 Glass Factory issue. Club member Rheo Thompson obtained a copy of the book, ‘A...
by admin | Mar 28, 2025 | Open Government |
When we are down and things look dark, Canadians often think of the words of our national guru, Red Green. Always a wise councillor, he advised, “If the women don’t find ya handsome, they should at least find ya handy.” We have all memorized these words, and we know...
by admin | Mar 18, 2025 | home page, Open Government |
This page is really a draft. We have started working on it to help with questions we’ve been receiving on how to wade through the increasing noise of today’s media. We hope you’ll have your own favourites to add in the comments. Let’s dig in...
by Sharon Collingwood | Feb 7, 2025 | Build Better, Open Government |
I apologize for not presenting all the questions and comments at the end of Wednesday’s Climate Momentum talk posted below. There were female speakers, but unfortunately they were at the back, and I couldn’t capture their questions from my position at the...
