Life in prison. No parole eligibility for 25 years. Hamber and Cooney showed no remorse for their actions. Hamber was so bold as to read a poem that she wrote from the perspective of the child she murdered. Jail is too good for this subhuman trash. There was a town in the US called Salem that had a punishment I think would befit them.
Hello everyone,
Tomorrow is July 3rd. The sentencing for Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney will be occurring at the Milton court house. I will be in virtual attendance for the entirety of the sentencing. I thought I would provide some important background about the formation of CAS and the insulation from scrutiny they are privileged with. Join me tonight in praying that these two monsters get the maximum allowable penalty for the first degree murder of L.L. And the confinement and torture of his younger brother J.L. This year I chose to sacrifice my Holiday for Canada day to dedicate to putting together this information, and helping advocates ensure that we continue to push for transparency and accountability for those that allowed this to occur under their watch.
A lot of people have been reaching out to let me know their concerns and ideas for Burlington Transit.
I know that ARGO transit has a pilot coming to Burlington in the near future that will focus on on-demand mini buses that will serve as feeder routes to the traditional transit lines to solve the first mile/last mile problem with transit adoption. When I talked to their founder and CEO they both told me that they had seen a lot of success in their pilots in Both Brampton and Bradford. It is interesting to note that adding this service fit in to the existing budgets of both organizations and resulted in over 100,000 additional rides in Bradford alone.
Other critics have mentioned the issues some routes have with schedule adherence. It would be interesting to hear some thoughts on how we could overcome those issues.
Finally route design is at the core of a lot of debates surrounding the agency. Are there any routes you think need more service? Any routes we are wasting money servicing that could be moved to ARGO's on demand model?
Anything else transit related that crosses your mind feel free to put it here.
There is something really important I feel I have to say. I owe this subreddit and the entire city an apology. See there are some really nasty people out there that refuse to leave me alone. I am trying to reach out to talk to you about local issues but the reddit is hijacked to talk about two-decade old issues that are politically irrelevant. I'm sorry for my part in perpetuating the abuse these trolls are inflicting on our community. I am a fighter. I want to fight for Burlington. I want to provide better representation for the people here in my ward. It can be very hard to engage the community when people like this are around. Know that I will fight as hard for you as I fight these pathetic reddit trolls. Cue the Hitler reference in the comments in 3...2...1...
In all seriousness, this is a time for you all to reach out and tell me what you would like to see happen in municipal government for the next 4 years. If you cannot keep your criticism constructive, please keep it to yourself.
The Pipeline to Permit Committee is not a housing strategy. Instead it represents the consolidation of power into the incompetent grasp of Mayor Marianne Meed Ward. In a single, unanimous vote, the Mayor managed to convince City Council to sign on to this foolish fancy in exchange for a front facing seat to a far fetched failure. It is a case study in executive manipulation, demonstrating how easily a focused leader can consolidate control over a municipal chamber filled with a council who are either entirely unsuspecting, or entirely checked out.
The creation of this committee was a calculated political maneuver. The Mayor successfully framed the initiative as an urgent, innovative solution to intense provincial housing pressures. The council failed to see the structural trap, or failed to care. The motion glided through the chamber without any rigorous debate or meaningful push back. While veteran members of council remained fundamentally checked out, the Mayor quietly centralized her influence over the city's multi-billion-dollar development agenda. By voting unanimously in favor of this committee, council members effectively voted themselves into an endless loop of failures.
The baffling part for me is the sheer lunacy of the concept. Not one person heard the pitch for this monstrosity and did any critical thinking? There is a simple concept expressed as a well known colloquialism: Too many cooks in the kitchen. When you make advisory committees from with too many sources of influence you create a political quagmire where projects go to die. Bottle necking a city's ability to approve projects leads to a drop in proposals. This leads to panic about not hitting housing goals. Projects are rushed through with no consultation to appease built up demand. Rinse, repeat. You now have a doom loop. The current administration is a reactive mess that cannot stabilize no matter what ridiculous things they try.
The profound irony of this entire apparatus is that it is structurally useless. The Pipeline to Permit Committee is a purely an advisory body. It possesses zero legal authority to bypass regular planning channels, override zoning bylaws, or fast-track a single building permit. Instead of cutting through red tape, it adds an entirely new, redundant layer of committee bureaucracy over existing municipal departments. It brings together multiple distinct entities, each plagued by its own internal administrative inertia, and expects them to work faster. It is impossible to conquer municipal gridlock by multiplying committees. It is an expensive, time-consuming loop that achieves nothing but the illusion of progress. Luckily the illusion of progress is Meed Ward's favorite thing. The purpose of this committee is to dilute responsibility for continued failures to meet the housing goals set out by the province. A task, I might add, that has not been a problem in any other Halton community.
The hard metrics prove that this strategy is a total failure. The committee was explicitly formed to rescue Burlington from missing its provincial housing targets. Housing starts across the city have plummeted, proving that high-level round tables and digital dashboards do not lay bricks or pour concrete. Provincial tracking has repeatedly placed Burlington at or near the very bottom of Ontario municipalities regarding progress toward mandated provincial housing targets. The target of enabling 29,000 homes by 2031 is ambitious to say the least. Market data from early 2026 indicates the situation has worsened. For the first quarter of 2026, Burlington recorded only 22 housing starts, sitting drastically below its historical ten-year average for that period.
This drop is so severe that the City of Burlington moved forward with an emergency proposal to temporarily eliminate 100% of municipal residential development charges for a two-year window in an aggressive effort to entice developers to start pouring concrete again on stalled projects. Luckily, at least that idiocy was prevented by the council. Barely.
Burlington does not need more centralized forums for high-level political gamesmanship, and it certainly does not need more administrative layers wrapped in the guise of efficiency. I advocate that we abolish the pipeline to permit committee entirely. It is a waste of time and money and doesn't accomplish to objective it was created to. It is dead weight and it must be cut loose.
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This weekend while many of you were out enjoying the music festival, and the wonderful weather, I was at home. Why? I was working hard on my campaign. We need somebody who will actually do the work. I'm not waiting till I get elected the work is too important.
With that being said I would like to ask everyone to please RSVP for my Community Safety Town Hall. This event is free to attend for any Burlington residents. We need to make at least 20 RSVPs for this event to move forward. Once we hit 20 we will book a venue and a date and time will be published.
Here we want to discuss
-Plans to license active transport methods to hold them to a set of standards (E-bikes, E-scooters, Power Assisted Bicycles, and Bicycles)
-Plans to address the lack of traffic calming in neighborhoods in North Burlington.
-How to address the recent rash of car thefts and community break-ins.
This will be in a totally different format than the existing city administration uses in their town halls. It will center around group discussion and collaboration to find solutions.
This previous Friday my account was disabled on Nextdoor for 3 days to punish me for speaking out against unfair treatment I was receiving from members of the site. I have written this piece as a response to their heavy handed censorship of my account.
A local resident Joshua has provided me with a proposal for a project he has been working on in his spare time. Please let me know what you think. Be respectful.
Council was officially broken to tiny little pieces by our incompetent disrespectful conniving mayor. See how Marianne Meed Ward is trampling your democratic rights here:
Long story short, arenas indebt communities for decades, while the private investors make off with the profits. Here's the real story, with proper references to major research studying the municipal funding of arena projects.
A Financial Home Run for Developers, a Strikeout for Taxpayers: The Real Arena Math