by Rick Crouch | Nov 27, 2018 | Business Matters, Community Affairs, Live Play - Georgian Bay, Municipal Affairs, Odds and Ends
Yesterday’s announcement by General Motors that is was closing several manufacturing plants in both Canada and the U.S. was grim news for 2,500 assembly workers in Canada, 14,000 in the U.S. plus thousands more with salaried positions throughout the...
by Rick Crouch | Oct 19, 2018 | Community Affairs, Live Play - Georgian Bay, Municipal Affairs
Great article on the democratic election process by Ian Adams and well worth the read. I ran in the last municipal election for Collingwood Council and I am not afraid to admit that the 38 vote shortfall Ian mentions in this article between getting...
by Rick Crouch | May 31, 2018 | Community Affairs, Live Play - Georgian Bay, Municipal Affairs, Real Estate General
Back in 2008, the City of Toronto brought in their own “municipal land transfer tax” MLTT which was applied to purchases and paid by the buyers of real estate within the city. For years, buyers of real estate in Ontario have paid a provincial...
by Rick Crouch | Oct 30, 2017 | Live Play - Georgian Bay, Municipal Affairs
One of the hot buttons in the Province right now is the whole issue of hydro and the skyrocketing cost of electricity that we have seen under the current Provincial Liberals. Closer to home, is another seemingly controversial matter involving electricity,...
by Rick Crouch | Apr 23, 2015 | Live Play - Georgian Bay, Municipal Affairs, Planning and Development
As a candidate in last fall’s Municipal election, I advocated that many of the issues facing this area are not simply relative to individual municipal interests but are in fact “regional” in nature. Economic development,...
by Rick Crouch | Mar 8, 2013 | Live Play - Georgian Bay, Municipal Affairs
The entire town of Collingwood is abuzz today about a story by CBC News regarding an OPP investigation into members of Town Council amid allegations of conflicts of interest and other matters. While this is not an envious distinction...
