Accountability ← MUNICIPAL MATTERS

Calgary Homebuilders Conspiring to Stack City Council

Apr

2013

For those who follow and/or participate in elections you always here stories of the backroom deals that somehow the media never picks up on, while here is the smoking gun. A video our of Calgary that suggests our civic elections are not as clean and high-minded as many might think: (Click HERE to see the ...

The Chamber, Business Taxes, Budgets, and Potholes

Apr

2013

Now that a majority of the snow has melted (finally!) on our city streets get ready to start talking about potholes around the water cooler for the next few months. From Metro Saskatoon: The city has already begun its spring pothole blitz by doubling its efforts to get ahead of what is shaping up to ...

OurYXE Podcast #9: Roundtable on Snow Removal and Civic Election Rules

Apr

2013

Amazingly, even though Jordon and I sat down two weeks ago to record this roundtable discussion (can you call two people going back and forth a roundtable?) it remains more than relevant today. In this podcast Jordon and I discuss and lambaste City Council for their ineffective action on snow removal over the course of ...

Lowering Already Low Business Taxes, A Shortsighted Policy

Apr

2013

Every new year Saskatoon City Council goes through the same side-show of voting and passing a fluffy motion brought forth by the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce declaring Saskatoon a “Business Friendly” city. Saskatoon is a business friendly city, but then can anyone list of any city that doesn’t consider itself business friendly? Why our ...