Far and Wide (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Imagine using government money for the Vancouver Olympics to build a botanical garden in Chilliwack. That would seem weird, wouldn't it? Imagine money allocated to clean up the Hamilton Harbour being used to repave roads in Barrie? That wouldn't seem "right" would it? Imagine using money to help host the G8 summit in Huntsville for granite signage in distant Parry Sound ???...
Scott's DiaTribes (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... is the kicker: One news release announced $1.1 million to upgrade a street and replace trees in Parry Sound, about 80 kilometres away from the summit site. Clement has also announced $194,000 for a large “welcome granite stone” and new lighting for a concert stage, also in Parry Sound. I’m going to import Steve’s helpful “visual aid” to show where exactly Parry...
Scott's DiaTribes (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... of pulp mills, auto plants and other industries creamed by the global economic downturn. Clement’s Parry Sound-Muskoka riding, which includes both affluent cottage country north of Toronto and poorer areas, got $7.4 million in projects under the Community Adjustment Fund, including $5.1 million for a new university residence, a Citizen-Halifax Chronicle Herald investigation shows....
Black Dog Hates Skunks (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
... long French names, past the reserves, surrounded by granite and spruce and cold water, down past Parry Sound, Georgian Bay somewhere to my right, unseen, looming, and then four lanes finally, give her the gas down past Barrie and through the Holland Marsh, black stinking soil, through farmers’ fields now swallowed up by the suburbs and into the vast engulfing city. One night...
LIBERTY POST (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
... world leaders get together in informal setting to talk about issues of day,” according to Parry Sound-Muskoka member of Parliament Tony Clement, range from international security, climate change, international trade and more. G20 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa,...
