by Ron Voss | Oct 5, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT The evening of June 21, 2024, I made a comment citing the opinion of a retired University of Manitoba anthropology professor that “Indian Residential School (IRS) children are not missing, were never subject to genocide, and are not buried in individual...
by Ron Voss | Aug 23, 2024 | Cochrane
Shortly after sending an email to Stacey Lowe, copied to the Town Council, wherein I expressed my concern that an improper process appeared to have been followed for Susan Flower’s notice of motion at the Regular Council Meeting on July 8, 2024, I received the...
by Ron Voss | Aug 22, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT The rework of the section describing Notices of Motion in the new Procedural Bylaw 17/2024, adopted by Council at its June 24, 2024 Regular Council Meeting, suggested that it would follow the process to be followed as to be expected for what constitutes a...
by Ron Voss | Jul 16, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT After having advised Council and the Administration that the procedure followed for adopting the new Procedural Bylaw 17/2024 on June 24, 2024 was flawed, in that there was no motion for second reading of the bylaw, which is required for debate to proceed,...
by Ron Voss | Jul 1, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT The town Administration’s whitewashing of its failure to ensure that aspects of the existing Procedural Bylaw 19/2019 were followed was completed with the adoption of the final draft of Procedural Bylaw 17/2024 at the June 24, 2024 Regular Council Meeting....
by Ron Voss | Jun 15, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT At the May 27, 2024 Regular Council Meeting, the Administration presumably had hoped that its revised Procedural Bylaw 17/2024 would be adopted by Council. However, its hopeful completion of the whitewashing of its failure to ensure compliance with aspects...
by Ron Voss | May 6, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT Two previous blogs, here and here, have addressed how the town’s Administration with its revised draft Procedural Bylaw 17/2024 was using it to whitewash its failure to ensure that the Town Council complied with aspects of its existing Procedural bylaw...
by Ron Voss | Apr 23, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT I had expected the town Administration’s whitewashing of its failure to ensure compliance with the Towns’ procedural bylaw to have been completed with the second-reading debate and likely third-reading approval of the draft revised Procedural Bylaw...
by Ron Voss | Apr 19, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT At the April 2, 2024 Committee of the Whole Meeting, Administration introduced its draft revised Procedural Bylaw for Council’s input ahead of it being brought forward for first reading at the Regular Council Meeting on April 8, 2024. The draft...
by Ron Voss | Apr 18, 2024 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT On March 18, 2024, Ms. Josipa Petrunić, President and CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), attended the town’s Committee of the Whole meeting to provide a summary of this consulting firm’s technical report related...