r/Cobourg

Apparently another Starbucks coming to Cobourg on Division next to Subway ....

Did anyone else notice the mayor skipped walking with the rest of council in the parade and cruised along in Corvette instead?

I just don’t understand the point of that. To me it looked like he was showing his superiority and living out some corvette driving fantasy.

Where can we go to celebrate a 13 year old girl's birthday in town in mid-July? We just moved into the area and 3 of her friends from our old city are taking the train in to help her celebrate. Other than a sleepover at our house, what can we do in the 24 hours (mid-week) that they're here?

If the weather is good, we'll hit the beach. I know that they'd like anything instagrammable, or cute, or trendy, or has "vibes". They're very much girly girls. Are there any good patios that I could take them to for appetizers and blended (non-alcoholic) drinks?

It's a milestone year for her and we just did a big move - I'd like to really make her feel like the area is 'cool' (or at least has potential) and give her and her friends a fun time out and about.

To the guy in the dark colour truck travelling northbound on William street this evening some time after 5pm who thinks it’s cool to roll coal on a cyclist, you’re really cool. Now I’d totally understand if I was fully kitted out in my matching Le Col Lycra ripping down the side of the road sucking back a gel pack on my road bike while doing 35km/h hurting your sensibilities but I wasn’t. I was on the side walk with my 5 year old trying to enjoy the warm weather on our mountain bikes.

To those in the community that know this person or have dash cam footage of the incident I’d love to connect so that I can file the appropriate report with the local and provincial authorities.

Cheers!

I was curious what approximate percentage of people attending are native Cobourg residents and what percentage are from out of town?

Obviously this would be a guess.

Hi guys!

With the festivities in town, and excitement brewing up, has anyone from cobourg caught the literal worst cough/fever/cold in the entire world?

Obviously hubby and I won’t be attending until if/when we feel better. However I’m wondering if there’s some type of bug going around to take us all down one by one to make more room for the big city folk.

So mad I’m missing the sandcastle contest. If anyone’s going please sent pictures

And lastly, have fun to those who are going

... go 😄

The text of the letter as published in Today’s Northumberland:

“I am once again forced to defend myself against libelous statements. Statements that have no basis in fact at all. Statements that are outright lies designed to affect a specific election result.

Cobourg Police Board Chair and current Cobourg Council member and Deputy Mayoral Candidate Adam Bureau slandered my name at the most recent CPS board meeting yesterday by saying: “Still people are released again and again. We see individuals arrested dozens of times in a matter of months. Yet some, including our mayor, would have you believe this is solely a police failure.” Said Bureau

Mr. Bureau’s personal antipathies against me aside; the policing position he is attributing to me is unbecoming of both a Police Board Chair and most certainly a supposed Council colleague.

I have never referenced anything close to this absurd statement. To my knowledge I have always praised the rank-and-file members of our Towns force from the day I was elected to today.

Mr. Bureau please show where I have ever said that the drug issues or more laughably bail issues are the “failings” of the men and women who so honorably serve our community every day. Please provide one scintilla of proof of that statement.

So, for Mr. Bureau to make such a preposterous and uncalled for statement fewer than 6 months from an election I find the timing questionable at the very least. Mr. Bureau has chaired dozens of meetings of the Cobourg Police Board without maligning my name.

I simply am not Mr. Bureau’s choice to be Mayor. These feeble attacks are designed to give his chosen Candidate and perceived running mate an advantage by trying to make the Members of the Force and their extended families and greater Cobourg community at large think I don’t support them. Patently false.

This is about petty personal vengeance – this is about trying to punish me and hurt my election chances pure and simple. Mr. Bureau can try and cloak himself in heroic sanctimony all he wants but facts are facts. These personal attacks are directly, as always, for my stance against the normalization of criminal drug activity particularly in our town parks and public spaces. Pure and simple.

Any issues I have had; have always centered very squarely around the Board of the Cobourg Police, certain members in particular. Not any members of the Force themselves.

I won’t ask for an apology or even a retraction as I do not believe Mr. Bureau is capable of that kind of magnanimity. However, I will say to the general public, I am calling on Mr. Bureau to provide any evidence where I have ever directly denigrated our men and women who serve our Town.

I can and do have significantly serious concerns about specific decisions taken by certain memembers of this board specifically around, as example, both Beatty and Bureau’s aligned efforts as joint Cobourg Councilors and Cobourg Police Board Members to foist a shocking 20.5%Police Budget increase on the backs of Cobourg citizens. Their action in this regard is not supposition on my part but it is fully a matter of the public record.

I recently sent an email that included Mr. Bureau that was in praise of Prime Minister Carney and his government’s changes around bail reform legislation. It is my sincere hope that these legislative changes around bail will begin to put an end to Mr. Bureau’s referenced concern around multi-arrest releases.

I would ask Mr. Bureau to not make public pronouncements attributed to me that he cannot verify as truth.

I was also recently misguidedly attacked in the form of a letter signed by 5 advocate agencies. These signatories included and of particular note both Greenwood Coalition and Transition House. This letter; rife with Advocates typical arrogant condescension’s; attempts to conflate the terms housing and human rights and public parks as somehow having anything to do with one another. There are no enshrinements that are codified regarding housing as a human right as it connects to specifically public parks. The opposite is true.

This also has far more to do with my motions to have all criminal drug positive park language every word removed from our proposed Parks Master Plan. Mr. Bureau knows full well the public’s feelings on this issue, but he also knows he has the current safety of running unopposed for Deputy Mayor in the next term of Council.

I very much look forward to the passing of newly announced Provincial legislation by Ontario’s Solicitor General Michael Kerzner designed specifically for all Police Boards in Ontario; Cobourg’s included that will compel and direct potential rogue Boards and their Board Members to follow not their own ideological positions but Provincial laws (particularly such as Bill 6) will be coming into law in the near future. I will have far, far more to say about the actual motives behind these unprecedented and coordinated personal attacks at the appropriate time over the course of the election

On a very personal note, what frankly upsets me about Mr. Bureau’s public insinuations is that I am actually the immensely proud son of one of the most respected retired police officers in this Province. I know what it means to be a proud officer’s son, what it means Mr. Bureau, to actually know what personal sacrifices officers make every day on behalf of a calling far greater than themselves and far more noble than most can ever conceive.

I now fully understand why at this very same meeting in question yesterday long-time Cobourg Police Board Provincial Appointee and community pillar Dr. Ron Kerr called for Mr. Bureau’s resignation from the Board.

Lucas Cleveland
Mayor of Cobourg

Looking for recommendations for a dog trainer in town or who comes to town.

Specifically with a leash reactive dog.

TYIA