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As the Federal Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario decide how Miltonians will safely interact with one another, who of us works and who of us doesn’t and where we go and where we don’t go, the Town of Milton has been left to react to these shifting sands, providing temporary relief where […]
What follows are the Top Ten complaints I have received over the last 18 months since being elected as your Local Councillor. Let’s work on all of them together in the months to come with a view to eliminating them and creating a better place for all of us to live, work and play: Challenge: Speeding […]
Almost two years after a local resident raised with me the matter of illegal clothing bins being placed on Milton streets, I was finally able to work with Town staff to develop a bylaw that Milton Council approved earlier this spring that will effectively deal with them. While Guru Garib Niwaj Welfare Society, the Brantford, Ontario-based charity […]
Milton District High School, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in our community this year, has had to postpone its planned festivities for October 2 and 3 of this year to October, 2021, because of COVID-19 physical distancing restrictions. Organizers had put together an action-packed agenda for the fall, including a walk back in history, a […]
A majority of Milton Council ruled on December 9, 2019, that the Town of Milton’s portion of the property tax levy will increase in 2020 by 5.6% or almost three times the rate of inflation, an improvement over the 8.30% increase approved for 2019, which was more than four times the rate of inflation that […]
Magical Milton, the documentary film created by renowned and versatile local mixed media artist Fahim Hamid Ali, premieres on Sunday January 12, 2020 at 2 p.m. in the Mattamy Theatre, First Ontario Arts Centre Milton, 1010 Main Street East, Milton, Ontario. The doors open at 1 p.m., the event is free-of-charge, but seating is limited to […]
As one of the architects of the Town of Milton’s 10 straight years of 0 percent tax increases between 1993 and 2002, an initiative that has afforded Miltonians the lowest property taxes in the Greater Toronto Area to this day, I was extremely dismayed when a slim majority of Milton Council voted to increase taxes […]
Over the last seven months that I have served as your local Councillor, I have had the privilege to meet hundreds of you, answer your questions and, most importantly, help to resolve those matters that affect your quality of life in our community. I have been successful on most files that you have sent my […]
The emerald ash borer devastated the Town of Milton’s inventory of ash trees in 2015, 2016 and 2017, such that the Town could not afford to replace all of them in a timely fashion. At that time, I had reached out to the Town to suggest that it investigate the feasibility of establishing a program […]
The Town of Milton is engaging more frequently with Pearson International Airport on airport noise at a senior staff level and I have also now re-engaged with the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) and NAV Canada on a political level, attending a related briefing in April. I will be attending these meetings for the remainder […]