Councillors blindsided the taxpayers Victoria council raised their own pay 25 per cent going into effect on May 1 without due consultation and without any warning. In other endeavours that is called being bushwacked.
Mayor Marianne Alto and councillors Stephen Hammond and Marg Gardiner voted against but the motion passed even with Chris Coleman away.
Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia: Number of registered voters: 322,000. Number of councillors: Nine. Councillor base pay $95,600. Councillor cost per voter $2.67. Thus there has been no affordable housing built in the past 30 years. There is a chronic shortage of doctors and nurses. There are totally inadequate services for those struggling with mental illness and/or poverty. We do not even give citizens enough money for food!
The pollution from fracking causes the deadly extreme weather events that we have been seeing, in the extreme, during the past six years. The word that screams at me in that press release is “preserving,” as the same principle does not appear to apply in the case of the Alix Goolden Hall.
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