Good morning Burlington, October marks the start of several important month of recognitions, including: Learning Disabilities Awareness Month Islamic History Month Women’s History Month Autism Awareness Month Canada Library Month Car Safety Month Occupational Therapy Month This week also marks National Mental Illness Awareness Week (Oct. 2-8, 2022) and Customer
MY TAKE: A new Orange Crosswalk was been installed at Lakeshore Road and Nelson Avenue in honour of the children of Canada’s Residential School System and those who never returned home. I want to thank all Indigenous leaders, residents and City staff who helped make this crosswalk a reality and
MAYOR MEED WARD’S TAKE: This is great news for our community! This new and enhanced centre will add much-needed community and recreation space built with environmental impacts in mind. *Please see below a news release issued by the City of Burlington. Burlington, Ont. — Sept. 29, 2022 — The City
MY TAKE: It’s truly tough to read in the staff report that a Health Protection and Air Quality Bylaw would not be a meaningful avenue to bring about change for oversight of air qualities issues in Burlington generally, and in particular, at our two operating quarries: Nelson and Aldershot. All
MY TAKE: It was a sad day when we learned of the Burlington Canal Pier would be closed, so I’m very grateful we’ll entering into this agreement with the Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority (HOPA), who has taken carriage of this site. I want to thank City staff for their extensive
Welcome to the Mayor’s Mailbag – September 2022 roundup. The Mayor’s Monday Mailbag is a weekly initiative Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward and the Mayor’s Office has launched to share answers to questions from the public we’ve received through our main email inbox at mayor@burlington.ca or the Mayor’s social media platforms. At
Good morning Burlington, This Friday (Sept. 30) will see our city and community come together to mark Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Burlington City Hall will be closed in observance. Orange Shirt Day was created in 2013 by Phyllis Webstad, a residential school survivor,
MY TAKE: Our Heritage Register is the best tool we have to protect buildings from demolition while we embark on the Cultural Heritage Landscape Study that will unfold over the next year. This heritage study was approved by this term of Council earlier this year, and is one of the
*Please see below a news release issued by the City of Burlington. Burlington, Ont. — Sept. 22, 2022 — The City of Burlington will observe Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Friday, Sept. 30. To mark the importance of the day, City of Burlington administration
MY TAKE: The Sound of Music has been serving our city and community for decades and we’ve seen it act as a launching pad for several new bands. It fosters arts and culture in our community and contributes to better mental health — we saw that especially during the pandemic.
*Please see below a news release issued by the City of Burlington. Burlington, Ont. — Sept. 22, 2022 — The City of Burlington continues to measure and share progress on the key actions outlined in Vision to Focus – the City’s four-year work plan. The semi-annual update was presented to
Burlington City Council unanimously approved staff’s recommendation to develop a Zero-Emission Bus Fleet Implementation and Rollout Plan by engaging with the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) and CUTZEB™ (CUTRIC’s not-for-profit arm) to finalize the plan and will report back to Council in Q2 2023. Click here for the
“I want to thank our City staff from the all the different departments who have been a part of this response from the start and who put together the recommendations in this report. I also want to thank my Council colleagues for unanimously approving these recommendations and actions, as well
*Please see below a news release issued by the City of Burlington. Burlington, Ont. — Sept. 21, 2022 — At the Sept. 20, 2022 Burlington City Council Meeting, City Staff brought forward report L-46 -22 for Council’s consideration to waive solicitor-client privilege in order to release the initial legal budget approved
MY TAKE: The Burlington Climate Action Plan Update we received is great work by staff and the students at McMaster University! The goals for a municipality are captured in its budget. We can plan all we like, but if we don’t fund it, those plans go nowhere. I look forward
Proclamations are read at the beginning of every regularly-scheduled Burlington City Council meeting. A proclamation is an official announcement issued by the Mayor to recognize exceptional events, groups, people, or achievements in the City of Burlington. The goal of a proclamation is to recognize and celebrate achievements, and to raise
*Please see below a news release issued by the Region of Halton. The Regional Municipality of Halton For Immediate Release September 16, 2022 Community organizations can now submit applications to the Halton Region Community Investment Fund (HRCIF) for 2023 funding. The HRCIF supports non-profit human service programs and initiatives that
“We believe we have eliminated the immediate threat to public safety from this family of coyotes responsible for the recent attacks. We know that will be a measure of relief to the community. City of Burlington staff will continue to patrol the area for the foreseeable future and we ask
*Please see below a news release issued by the City of Burlington. Burlington, Ont. — Sept. 16, 2022 — The City of Burlington is creating new guidelines for patios and temporary tents. An online survey for residents, current patio operators and businesses is open until Oct. 11 at getinvolvedburlington.ca/city-wide-patio-program The new guidelines
“We can breathe a small sigh of relief at this news, though our thoughts continue to be with all the victims as they recover from these unprovoked attacks. None of us want to have to eliminate a wild animal, but we’ve learned that once animals lose their fear of humans,
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