The Vaughan Family in Wales and America: A Search for the Welsh Ancestors of William Vaughan (1750-1840)
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Innovative proposals for municipal election reform have surfaced from an unlikely source – the controversy-wracked City of Vaughan. After spending two years studying ways to improve voter turnout and election fairness, a city-appointed task force has produced a report listing 16 recommended changes.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Former Vaughan mayor Michael Di Biase faces 27 charges involving alleged election finance irregularities in connection with the city's 2006 municipal election, in which he lost to Linda Jackson by just 90 votes.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
For years Vaughan Regional Councillor Mario Ferri has run advertisements in local newspapers, honouring students with the La Rocca Youth Bursary awards.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
Former Vaughan mayor Michael Di Biase is refusing to disclose who paid the $130,322 in legal bills he incurred fighting for a recount of the 2006 mayoral ballot – something a forensic audit has concluded contravenes the Municipal Elections Act.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The city of Vaughan has so far spent almost $750,000 on audits and legal fees aimed at uncovering potential election finance irregularities by Mayor Linda Jackson, former mayor Michael Di Biase and two councillors, says a staff report.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 04/24/2009
Vaughan Mayor Linda Jackson and her husband, Mario Campese, have been formally charged with violations of election finance rules in the run-up to her narrow 2006 victory against former mayor Michael Di Biase.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
Embattled Vaughan Mayor Linda Jackson used taxpayers' money to have her city hall office swept for listening devices last year, a practice borrowed from her predecessor and archrival, Michael Di Biase.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 03/24/2009
Embattled Vaughan Mayor Linda Jackson says she won't be run out of town.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 03/24/2009
It appears the stage is being set in Vaughan for a mayoral run next year by outgoing Ontario Provincial Police commissioner Julian Fantino.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
A former senior bureaucrat ordered Vaughan's chief information officer to snoop on Mayor Linda Jackson's emails without her knowledge, a newly released forensic review shows.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Vaughan council is set to once again consider the laying of charges against yet another member over alleged election finance irregularities and this time it involves regional councillor Joyce Frustaglio.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
If a good reputation is more valuable than money, Vaughan city hall is destitute. Few municipalities have experienced such an unrelenting stream of divisive scandal, tainting one mayoral administration after another.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Amidst the hand-wringing and disappointments and the stinging reality that court fights and political acrimony still dominate the focus of Vaughan city hall, this comment rankles:
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Politics in Vaughan has always been a rough-and-tumble affair, as was evident in the raucous scene at city council just days after Mayor Linda Jackson's 90-vote victory over Michael Di Biase in late 2006.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Vaughan City Council has voted unanimously to proceed with laying charges against Mayor Linda Jackson on campaign finance irregularities – which, if upheld by a judge, could lead to her dismissal.
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