City council Wednesday admitted it was wrong for deciding to spend $103,000 of taxpayer money in secret without justifying the expense for the public record.
Honesty the best policy: city council
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Month: May 2010
Galpin might be SLAPPED with legal expenses
A Superior Court has ruled that a Centretown community activist has the right to lobby government and businesses that deal with it and ask for information but Ontario activists still lack protection against legal intimidation from those they challenge.
My last Backyard Beat â A perspective in Crime Prevention
Well, the time has come to say goodbye. Inevitably all good things come to an end and my time has come to move on to new challenges. I have decided to take a leap of faith and embark on a journey outside of the policing world. I will, however, still be at service to Ottawa residents in a community safety capacity because the new job I am taking on is that of the community safety manager for Ottawa Community Housing.
Film Review: Iron Man 2
At the end of Iron Man, Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) revealed his identity to the world, sparing subsequent films from those shopworn superhero alter-ego issues but triggering new problems with the U.S. government, particularly a senate committee headed by Senator Stern (Garry Shandling), who doesn’t trust any individual to “privatize world peace.”