With the Election Day just a few days away, I will make this my last post. Below, please find an overview of my platform and campaign.
I encourage you to stack up everything I am proposing against the other candidates. While I know for a fact they all have worked very hard during their campaigns, no other candidate has provided as much detail as I have provided on how to achieve the goals proposed. Our beloved city is not healthy. Now is not a moment in Windsor’s history for talk, we need action.
On Monday, October …

All council candidates recently received a very short questionnaire from a concerned taxpayer regarding the Ojibway Park area. As with all other questionnaires I have responded to, in my attempt to be open and transparent, here are my responses:
1) Do you support the Big Box development directly adjacent to Ojibway Prairie?
The city of Windsor has conducted a study named the Commercial Land Use Policy. The study concluded Windsor is oversaturated with commercial spaces and no new commercial development is needed without first using up existing empty spaces. Also, Windsor-Essex has less …

One item I feel strongly about is the lack of accountability held to our councillors on their voting records in council. If you haven’t tried, it is extremely difficult to determine how any of our representatives have voted in the past on particular issues. You would have to know the exact item you are looking for, the exact date it was discussed and then search through the entire Minutes of the council meeting just to see who voted what.
If elected, I will be proposing that all council votes be detailed …

I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Windsor Square, Refine Fitness, Big Tony’s, moderator Jake Rondot and everyone who attended tonight’s Ward 4 Candidate’s Debate.
In mingling with the audience after the event, feedback seems to be swaying in the direction of myself coming out on top.
To provide those who were not in attendance an opportunity to form their own opinion, videos of the entire debate will be posted shortly. In the meantime, please enjoy both my opening and closing statements from the evening:
If you’ve gone around Windsor …

I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Windsor Square, Refine Fitness, Big Tony’s, moderator Jake Rondot and everyone who attended tonight’s Ward 4 Candidate’s Debate.
In mingling with the audience after the event, feedback seems to be swaying in the direction of myself coming out on top.
To provide those who were not in attendance an opportunity to form their own opinion, videos of the entire debate will be posted shortly. In the meantime, please enjoy both my opening and closing statements from the evening:
I would like to thank …

Much noise has been made about the lack of debates being held for individual wards throughout Windsor. Thankfully, one has now been organized for Ward 4 allowing its residents the opportunity to have some of their concerns addressed directly from each candidate.
The debate will commence at 8:15pm on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at Walkerville Colligiate at 2100 Richmond. It should last until approximately 10:00pm.
I encourage you to attend and become informed on where each Ward 4 candidate stands on the issues throughout the ward and city as well as what …

Earlier this month, the Arts Council Windsor & Region, in collaboration with multiple arts groups in our region, released a questionnaire it hoped council candidates would answer to show where they stand on arts and culture in Windsor.
It is my belief that the “Cultural Hub” being proposed by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra could essentially redefine downtown as a whole and send it on a completely new, revitalized path. The mentality of our current council needs to change. There was minimal hesitation from council on spending $70 million on a new …

Last week I attended a press conference at Unconquered Sun celebrating the official launch of their “Made in Windsor” solar panels.
MPP Sandra Pupatello spoke at the press conference and said that ”Windsor-Essex is right at the hub” of green manufacturing but that  ”it does take government policy.”
That is where something like my “Green Jobs Policy” would come into place. It would be that policy and help push Windsor into a leadership role in nurturing and supporting green research, development and manufacturing businesses.
Recently, the Windsor Essex Economic Development Corporation released their draft strategic …

A new industry is on the verge of being created in our region and Windsor needs to play a key role in sustaining its future and job growth potential. Wind and solar energy companies have slowly begun to trickle in, however, more must be done to ensure these businesses, and their jobs, continue to locate here. Windsor must take proactive steps in transforming our region into a “green technology Mecca”, similar to what happened in Silicon Valley with the electronics and IT industries.
On August 20, 2010, I wrote a piece …

While you may or may not agree with its significance, green energy and environmentalism is here and will arguably be major players in not just the future of Windsor, but every city.
Windsor and Essex County have made major strides in welcoming the green technology industry with multiple solar businesses locating here and many windmills dotting our county’s skyline.
An industry is starting to form and now Windsor must do everything it can to nourish it and create an atmosphere that helps these firms blossom. It is time for Windsor to change …