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Your Ideas For Windsor
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Written by Windsor Shadow
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Friday, 20 August 2010 04:27 |
Four years ago, (August 17th to be exact), the original Windsor Municipal Shadow was born on Google's Blogger platform. My initial goal was to cover the various races and keep people as informed as possible. I enjoyed following the various campaigns and over the course of the election period began to develop a much greater interest in Windsor as a community. Post election, I decided to keep blogging on municipal affairs. In retrospect I'm glad I did.
The last four years in municipal blogging have led me down many different paths and I'm glad for the experience. I've gotten to know many people throughout Windsor, had opportunities to share my knowledge and most importantly learn just as much from many others. The experience has been rewarding on many levels, certainly peaking with last years founding of Citizfaction and the effort to transition Windsor to ten wards from five. That single campaign was the most satisfying and enjoyable thing I've ever accomplished in politics. It was a true community effort, citizens coming together from all walks of life and political stripes to speak in a loud and clear voice to their representatives. For once, they heard us.
The current election finds me wearing two hats and very busy. While I'm assisting several candidates in Ward races, I'm also continuing with Citizfaction in an effort to provide education and assistance to all candidates on a non-partisan basis. I've received a fair amount of criticism from some people over this approach, but I'm not deterred. I've never hidden my support of various candidates. I believe in our democratic process and have been inspired to do as much as I possibly can. To my critics I simply say, what have you done lately?
My blogging here at the Shadow has been rather sparse over the last while and I'm not sure what's going to happen after this year's election. I'd like to follow through with my original goal of providing a sort of "shadow" council online, providing thoughtful commentary and analysis from a group of people, both as regular contributors or guest bloggers. I believe there is still a want and a need for more voices in our municipal affairs and I'd like to provide a platform if I can.
My journey in municipal politics over the last four years has been immensely rewarding. I'd like to thank each and every person I've met in this adventure, friend and foe alike. Because of each one of you I've developed a greater interest and passion for the city I live in. You can't ask for much more!
65 days until the next Municipal Election. Get involved, or at the very least, get out and vote and bring two or three people with you!
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Written by Windsor Shadow
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 18:36 |
The Citizfaction Municipal Election Toolbar is now ready for download. We will be tracking the Mayoralty and Councillor races in Windsor. The toolbar includes links to every active website of current candidates and regular updates via RSS feeds. In the works is the addition of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube tracking as well.
The toolbar has versions for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari on the Windows, Linux and Mac platforms.
Cross posted from Citizfaction
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Written by Windsor Shadow
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 14:20 |
Wednesday's show covered a review of the new Ward 8 and a discussion on the upcoming vote on outsourcing the City of Windsor's garbage collection and recycling pickup. Host: Kieran McKenzie with Chris Holt, Ryan Solomon and myself.
Rose City Politics
In the discussion on outsourcing, we tried to determine what the eventual vote would be by various Councillors. I'll post my predictions here and invite others to post theirs in the comments. Next Tuesday we can come back and review the results. (You can count on the "winner" being revealed on next Wednesday's show!)
My predictions:
Councillor Brister Yes
Councillor Dilkens Yes
Councillor Jones No
Councillor Postma Yes
Councillor Valentinis Yes
Councillor Halberstadt Yes
Councillor Lewenza No
Councillor Marra Yes
Councillor Gignac Yes
Councillor Hatfield Yes
Mayor Francis Yes
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left until the 2010 Windsor Municipal Election
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