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 …

Last week, incumbent Alan Halberstadt released a video stating he will continue his push to help small business in Windsor. According to most of those small businesses, the only push they are getting from anyone at City Hall is over a cliff.
In a recent survey, small businesses rated Windsor the worst in the province to deal with. Small businesses in Windsor gave our local government a failing grade in five categories with almost 60% questioning the integrity of bylaws and policies. This is alarming considering small businesses account for over 90 …

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 …

Today I had the opportunity to go downtown for the presentation being put on by the Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association.
If you haven’t heard, businessman Italo Ferrari, along with the DWBIA is offering up space for small businesses free of charge for a minimum of six months creating a “small business incubator” on the top floor of the 500 Building on Ouellette Avenue. There are also other spaces available throughout the building and at street level.
I would like to thank Mr. Chris Edwards, Executive Director of the DWBIA, Bob Williams …

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 …