CITY OF STRATFORD

We receive an embarrassing award

We receive an embarrassing award

It was bound to happen. A Council who brought us the chaos of the RNG Plant, who worked behind closed doors to annex 175 acres of farmland in pretty dodgy circumstances, and who privately negotiated a polluting deal with a glass factory while publicly signing a...

E&E: Our official plan process begins

  Thursday’s meeting of the Energy & Environment Committee began with a presentation on the upcoming review of the Official Plan, something Stratford is required to do every five years. Here is the link to the minutes:  Here is the video of the meeting:Alyssa...

January E&E

January E&E

Where is our promised climate change coordinator? Thursday’s Energy & Environment meeting began with introductions and the election of officers; Jo-Dee Burbach will chair, and Emily Sheldon will be vice-chair. Two new members of the committee are Felicity...

Welcome to Glasstown

As we take time for family and the Holidays, we know we are under the shadow of something that could permanently change our town. I hope this will not come to pass, and I think we need to consider the root cause of this threat. It’s not a mayor with political...

What we know about the Xinyi glass plant

We’ve been hearing about this project for a while. The 100-metre smokestack, the 1.6 million litre per day water usage, the dormitory for foreign workers, the possible contamination of our air and water, the destruction of farmland. But it seemed to have gone away,...