Posts Tagged ‘mike bradley’
Ontario Liberals to close Sarnia jail
The Ontario budget, released on Tuesday at Queen's Park, has sounded a death knell for the Sarnia jail. It will close as a cost-cutting measure and prisoners will be transferred to a new 315-bed super jail in Windsor in 2013, affecting 76 full and part-time workers at the jail. The government says staff at [...]
Bruce Power delays plans to ship steam generators through the Great Lakes
Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley says the ongoing nuclear situation in Japan is the lone catalyst for Bruce Power to announce an indefinite delay in shipping 16 steam generators to Sweden for recycling to allow for further discussion with stakeholders, including First Nations and Metis. "While recycling this material is the right thing to do, [...]
County budget benefits city taxpayers
The striking of the county budget on Wednesday is good news for City of Sarnia ratepayers. Mayor Mike Bradley says the blended increase including city, county and education taxes is now 1.11 per cent. That's less than half the municipal increase of 2.31 per cent passed by city councillors in January. The blended increase [...]
City and Point Edward officers will carry number of slain Toronto colleague
As first reported in LambtonShield.com, Sarnia Police officers and those from Point Edward OPP will have the opportunity to honour the memory of slain Toronto Police officer Sgt. Ryan Russell, who was killed while trying to stop a stolen snowplow/salt truck last month, thanks to a local businessman. Dave Brown, who runs Bridgeview Marina, purchased [...]
More fallout from a plan to ship nuclear waste through the Great Lakes
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources is the latest body to jump into the fray over radioactive waste shipments through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. The committee has scheduled two days of public hearings on the matter. They'll be held on March 8 and 10. Late last [...]
Sarnia Mayor would like to see County Council webcast its proceedings
Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley is asking Lambton County Council for a motion to investigate the feasibility and cost of live streaming meetings on the Internet. The notice of motion, sent to Warden Steve Arnold and members of council on Tuesday, Jan. 25,, includes Bradley's references to other communities that have done this as well as [...]
Mike Bradley wants city council to back bill on suicide prevention
Sarnia's Mayor wants his council colleagues to endorse a Private Members' Bill to develop a national strategy on suicide prevention. Mike Bradley calls suicide by young people a "national epidemic." In his letter, he says 3,500 young people die each year in Canada by suicide, a rate that was 11 times times higher than murder [...]
Sarnia Mayor’s ‘Open Mike’ column debuts on LambtonShield.com
By MIKE BRADLEY Mayor, City of Sarnia “Open Mike” returns after a four month hiatus (that’s a fancy word for break) due to the election fairness rules. If I was my opponents, I would have asked the rule be waived as my ramblings are clearly to their advantage to be in print to demonstrate there is [...]
Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley offers ‘look back, look ahead’ in speech to Golden K
Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley took the lectern at the Tuesday morning meeting of the Sarnia Lambton Golden "K" club to both look back and ahead in his somewhat informal "state of the city" speech. Indeed, Bradley assured club members (the Golden K is the "senior" branch of the Kiwanis organization) that the first meeting of [...]
Mike Bradley announces Mayor’s Honours List for 2010
With very modest editing, the following is the preface and descriptions of honorees for the 2010 Mayor's Honour List, to be formally presented to recipients at a reception on Feb. 10, 2011. The Mayor's Honour List was established by the late Mayor Marceil Saddy in 1981 to honour citizens and groups in the community or [...]
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THE SHOW: St. Clair’s ‘A Family Affair,’ Hotel California, RIBFEST, world record for air guitar, and INDIEFEST
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Really... and if 12 people found him quilty, why is he innocent? -
Laura Swick:
The first recorded use of the word "hockey" is found in the text of a royal proc -
Beth Ray:
Excellent article and tonigh the Stubborn Mule will rock! Can't wait. Come out a -
Wendy (Symington) Shaw:
What a bunch of bull .an off duty cop , it was my son who pulled her off the rai -
tom:
why is the ont. gov't not listening? are they being paid by the industry to look
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