by Ron Voss | Dec 18, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT A month ago, on November 18, 2025, the members of Cochrane’s new Town Council were contacted requesting that they take steps to have the land acknowledgement posted at the Town of Cochrane’s web site be removed. To date it has been nothing but silence...
by Ron Voss | Nov 3, 2025 | Cochrane
I was told and reported that the problematic clause 2(4) [“An initiative petition proposal must not contravene sections 1 to 35.1 of the Constitution Act, 1982”], in the Citizen Initiative Act, which is holding up the Alberta Prosperity Project’s (APP’s)...
by Ron Voss | Oct 21, 2025 | Cochrane
Well, the municipal general election results are in, and the elbows up crowd must be celebrating! The Town of Cochrane has released the unofficial results of the 2025 municipal election. Results indicate that Mayor Morgan Nagel and six councillors have been elected....
by Ron Voss | Oct 16, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT The local media, the Cochrane Eagle and Cochrane Now, gave an interim report on the motion that came forward to Town Council on June 23rd to remove the town from the ICLEI/FCM’s Partners for Climate Protection program. However, there was no such article...
by Ron Voss | Oct 1, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT On July 2, 2025, a request was made under the Access to Information Act (ATIA) for records in the custody and control of the Town for the period December 23, 2024 to June 27, 2025 related to: “All communications related to the town’s membership in the...
by Ron Voss | Sep 26, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT Fifteen candidates who currently are not elected members of Cochrane’s Town Council, one running for mayor (Dean Hopkins) and the other 14 running as councillors, were sent an email asking just one question: “Do you support the Town of Cochrane remaining a...
by Ron Voss | Sep 14, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT On February 18, 2025 I made a presentation, “Cochrane’s Participation in the Partners for Climate Protection Program – Serving Local or Global Priorities?”, as a delegation to Council (from 2:25 to 13:18 minutes in the video for the meeting) requesting...
by Ron Voss | Aug 24, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT A summary of what has transpired since the delegation to Town Council on February 18, 2025 when a request was made for a councillor to step forward with a motion to remove the town from its membership in the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program, is...
by Ron Voss | Jul 22, 2025 | Cochrane
ABSTRACT A $103,800 planning study to potentially transition the Cochrane On-Demand Local Transit (COLT) fleet of buses to zero-emission vehicles, jointly funded by the Town of Cochrane, carrying $20,760 of the cost and the Government of Canada carrying the remainder...
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...