by Ron Voss | Jul 3, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT After a four-month delay since my delegation to Town Council on February 18, 2025, perhaps an intended delay, finally a motion came forward to Council on June 23, 2025 related to my request for a councillor to step forward with a motion to remove the town...
by Ron Voss | Apr 9, 2025 | Cochrane
Voices of Cochrane is a Cochrane community-based organization seeking a change in our municipal government through the upcoming municipal election in October 2025 by encouraging and supporting the entry of Triple A candidates, competent and principled candidates, who...
by Ron Voss | Mar 13, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT The response of Cochrane’s Town Council to the request to not approve Bylaw 24/2024, the Municipal Development Plan as is on Third Reading at its March 10th meeting, was anticipated as providing an indication of whether Cochrane’s Town Council was...
by Ron Voss | Mar 9, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT For the upcoming Council Meeting on March 10th, according to agenda item 5a, the Cochrane councillors are being asked to give Third Reading to Bylaw 24/2024, Cochrane’s Municipal Development Plan, also entitled Envision Cochrane 2050, “as presented”. An...
by Ron Voss | Feb 19, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT Twenty years ago in 2004 Cochrane’s Town Council at that time voted to become a member of the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program, a program administered by the Canadian subsidiary of the International Council for Local Environmental...
by Ron Voss | Feb 15, 2025 | Cochrane
Three years ago on January 11, 2021, I made a presentation as a delegation to Cochrane’s Town Council objecting to the town’s participation in and support for the Calgary Metropolitan Region Board (CMRB), and with that, Dog With A Bone was born! The name came about...
by Ron Voss | Feb 14, 2025 | Cochrane
Twenty years ago in 2004 Cochrane’s Town Council at that time voted to become a member of the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program. This program, consisting of a five-step milestone framework that guides the municipality to take action against climate...
by Ron Voss | Jan 11, 2025 | Cochrane
This is to notify you of this upcoming event in Calgary. Maggie Hope Braun is a Canadian civic advocate from Ontario and the founder of the KICLEI Canada initiative, a movement dedicated to promoting localism over globalism by empowering communities to reclaim their...
by Ron Voss | Dec 11, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT Council’s second reading for Bylaw 24/2024, the Town’s new Municipal Development Plan (MDP), branded as Envision Cochrane 2050, which took place on December 9th, 2024, unexpectedly turned out to be a rather interesting and revealing meeting. Of...
by Ron Voss | Dec 3, 2024 | Cochrane
The Town of Cochrane describes its portal for public engagement at its website as “Let’s Talk Cochrane”. I believe it is time to “Let’s Really Talk Cochrane”. I invite you to join me at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at the...