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Buying Local Food
The Record has a great article today about buying local food, featuring some of the area’s great local buying markets: Bailey’s Food Club, Barrie Brothers and Herrle’s. We haven’t made it to Barrie...
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Please Vote
The date for voting in the municipal elections, October 25th, is coming soon. Do you know who you are voting for? Do you even know the candidates for your district? With a growing population and the...
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One Fracking Vote
So it looks like Etherington’s one vote has been confirmed and now it is up to Chapman to decide whether or not to pursue a judicial recount: Duty of court (6) The court shall conduct the recount by,...
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University Plaza Fire, Ward 9, Barra Castle, and more
Happy New Year! A lot has happened in the last month or so and it’s time for some updates: Ward 9, Kitchener Election (previously) Chapman’s request to have a manual recount was granted. If any of the...
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Housing Resources for Waterloo Region
We’re looking at buying a house and, being the analytical type, I’ve tried to collect as much data as possible to make an informed decision. And so I thought: why not share that with others? Feel free...
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What does Barn-raising look like in a technological age?
This is the title of the Waterloo MEDA convention this Saturday. I think this is a terrific topic and I’m looking forward to seeing what Tim Jackson of the Accelerator Centre will have to say. MEDA is...
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Follow-up on Tim Jackson’s Keynote
As promised, here is the good stuff from Tim Jackson’s keynote at the MEDA conference: The principle of giving to those who are less fortunate had a significant impact on Tim and that is what has led...
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David’s Gourmet Opening New Store
I’m glad to hear that David is opening another store at the corner of Erb and Ira Needles! It would have been great to have his store in the downtown area again, but maybe one can hope for the future?...
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Waterloo Region Webcams
Did you know that Abbey Road has a webcam? During the day you can find people recreating the famous Beatles album cover. After seeing that, it got me thinking about webcams in the Waterloo region. Do...
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LRT Approved!
This is great news! Although I gather from the twitterverse that there is some disagreement about whether the vote was 9-2 or 10-1. A great comment from The Record’s article by NailedVision (yes, a...
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