What are folks are saying about Bruce Wark, at this link: About |
In these days of decreasing quality of printed media, especially for small towns, I feel we, in Sackville and the surrounding area, are truly so fortunate to have Bruce voluntarily ‘take up the torch’ over here in the digital world and shine a very bright unbiased light on the local subjects that really matter. Thank you Bruce!"
Count yourself lucky Percy Best!
Laffords planning big Sackville housing development for an ‘aging population’ |
A well written article on the Lafford development."
Beausejour politics report here from Bruce Wark:
Some commentary here:
"I will continue to promote Conservative politics in Sackville which has made me so popular since 2015 when I walked downtown with Ann Bastarache and Joel MacIntosh – CPC team for Beausejour at the first Pride Sackville event .. why stop now .. the label of “hyper conservative” and “neo nazi” I have received from the ninnies in this town is laughable… Vote Team Scheer .. Vote Out Trudeau in 2019… I don’t think Canadians should consider anymore Prime Ministers from Quebec – Montreal is the seat of the UN Agenda 2030 New World Order and Maxime is a wolf in sheep’s clothing who will split the conservative voters and ensure another Trudeau win.
Voting for Vincent Cormier and glad he has stepped up to run in this ‘green’ riding controlled by technocrats / university bureaucrats and UN propaganda.. I never did get an answer as to who decided our town should fly the UN flag."
More Bruce Wark local reporting here:
Phil Handrahan resigns as Sackville’s Chief Administrative Officer |
Some commentary here:
"Wow is right !! …
For those of us in attendance at the meeting Monday night, what we witnessed was as far away as one can stray from the ‘professional image’ which Councillor Evans has used to describe our soon-to-be-departing Chief Administrative Officer, as noted in the above WarkTimes article. Members of the audience that night were left feeling a bit ‘shell-shocked’, wondering what would happen next.
And now we find out that the CAO’s resignation was already well underway prior to the meeting.
I have verified that the Sackville Tribune was alerted in advance of Monday’s meeting, in order to allow enough time for them to prepare the story, which they published first in their online version late Tuesday afternoon, and then in today’s print edition of the Tribune. Since both the Mayor and the CAO were quoted in the Tribune article, they clearly both knew of the resignation at Monday’s meeting.
And now through WarkTimes investigation, Councillor Evans has revealed that the Personnel committee also knew about the CAO’s resignation “well in advance” of Monday’s meeting. Councillor Bill Evans and Councillor Andrew Black are the two Personnel Liaison Councillors, who also were “in the know” at the meeting.
Meanwhile, the remaining six Councillors were not advised of the CAO’s resignation until Tuesday afternoon, not too long before the information was passed down to Town staff.
So, looking at that timeline, it becomes clear that Mayor John Higham saw fit to inform the mainstream media BEFORE even alerting all of Council. It is Council as a whole who rightly direct the Mayor on what he releases to the public. In this case he clearly acted prior to consulting with Council.
I find that extremely alarming, to say the very least.
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On Monday night, when CAO Handrahan said to Councillor Mesheau – “You ask more questions than anybody!”, he was certainly stating the truth.
The unfortunate fact is that MORE Councillors SHOULD be asking MORE questions. Why are they not?
Instead of just accepting at face value whatever information they are provided, they must make sure they have all the facts and relevant background information on whatever the issue is, in order to make a truly ‘informed’ decision. Otherwise they could be left basing important decisions on what is sometimes found after the fact to be ‘incomplete or inaccurate’ information.
The fact is, for the past three years at least, we have observed there have been progressively fewer questions asked by Councillors about information delivered to them by staff, upon which they are expected to base decisions.
That changed for the better when Councillor Shawn Mesheau was re-elected to Council in the 2018 by-election, and he has indeed been asking a lot of pointed questions since he resumed his role on Council.
The outbursts from CAO Handrahan on Monday night revealed in no uncertain terms that he was very uncomfortable being questioned on how his staff performs their duties. His reaction was anything but ‘professional’, when addressing either a member of the public, or a member of Council.
I would encourage everyone to watch the video recording of the meeting, in order to gain the full effect of CAO Handrahan’s aggressive comments directed first at a citizen, and then at one of our Councillors.
Here is the link to the video – it’s now posted on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A3XEJTvxNY&feature=youtu.be
The two incidents described in the article begin at the 2:13:46 mark on the recording, and goes to the 2:23:42 mark, which is about 10 minutes of listening time."
"Happy news! bye bye Phil.. don’t let the door hit you on the way out … maybe we’ll save some money now on all those endless consultants and visioning sessions with well paid outsiders … ? Also, maybe the next guy won’t be so arrogant with the public that he is supposed to serve."
Indie is the way to go...
News you can use.. local news you can trust.. a comments section that may or may not be censored or in fact comments may be altered before they are published.. imagine that?
