Mike Cluett

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  • Smitherman ignores Halton's needs

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    Voting has started in the Canadian Blog Awards where yours truly has been nominated as “BEST LOCAL BLOG”. First round voting continues later this week and hopefully I can make it to the second round and beyond…so vote early and often 😉 *** As reported in the Milton Canadian Champion, Ontarios Energy and Infrastructure Minister…

  • WLU coming to Milton?

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    I was able to take sometime tonight to attend a Milton Town Council meeting and as the old saying goes…. Breaking news!!!! Milton CAO Mario Belvedere is making a presentation to council about the proposed education village in Milton. During his report he made official that Wilfred Laurier University has entered into a memorandum of…

  • Federal Budget Benefits Municipalities

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    A couple of days ago, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty released his third budget. This is something unheard of for a minority government being able to have this many budgets without being defeated. In many cases, they’re doing a good job and while most Canadians don’t want an election, they seem comfortable with our MP’s in…

  • Tax Increases Coming for Milton

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    As many of you know, its about this time of year when the Town of Milton council sits down and decides how much money they need to pay for the services they provide. Its also a well known fact that Milton has one of the lower tax rates in the GTA, which is what makes…

  • Is the Green Cart program enough

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      The Region of Halton recently announced that it was going forward with a Green Cart Program to help reduce the amount of waste that heads to our landfill site. In case people are unaware of where that landfill site is, take a trip down 25 (Bronte Road) south of Derry and you will soon…

  • Do we need more regional councillors

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    In a recent decision by Halton Regional Council, they are going to review the number of councillors. Normally I would be opposed to something like this but I am interested in what is going to be discussed in this review. You would have to be living under a rock to not know how fast Milton…