July 28, 2011 Accepting an invitation from Kevin Thomason, earlier this week I headed out with my spouse, Kate Daley, to the west side of Waterloo to get local perspective on the developments of late and over the last several years. It was a perfect evening for a walk through the Schneider and McNally lands. […]

July 10, 2011 I was pleased to have the opportunity to tour the displays, try some of the delicacies, and attempt an Ebru under the guide of Shuhrat Ochilov, a University of Waterloo PhD student. I learned about the art of Ebru – water colour marbling – from Feyza Baykan, who, after two years of practice in […]

July 6, 2011 How the City of Waterloo changes over time is substantially guided by its Official Plan. Council has now received the second draft of this plan, and anticipates considering it in the fall. But before then, it is back out for public consultation. There is an Open House scheduled for Wednesday, July 20th […]

May 18, 2011 Last week, Waterloo City Council took the momentous step of adopting a revised Rental Housing Licensing By-law, bringing our 25 year-old efforts in this area into the 21st century. Given the lengthy and healthy debate over the past several months, I thought it was important to provide all of you with an […]

May 3, 2011 Tonight I was pleased to attend the annual general meeting for Supportive Housing of Waterloo (SHOW), an apartment complex in my ward that has taken 30 individuals experiencing persistent homelessness off of our streets and into safe housing. The project was instigated by the faith groups behind the Out of the Cold […]

April 10, 2011 The question I get most frequently at the grocery store, on the bus, or walking around Waterloo hasn’t been about rental housing, rapid transit, or any of the other hot-button issues starting with ‘R’. The question I hear most often, from people I know well and those I’m meeting for the first […]

January 16, 2011 As an update on my last post, News in the New Year, I have spent the last week listening to the concerns of some of those involved in rental housing in our community. On Monday, January 10, Council received a draft Rental Housing Licensing By-law and suspended the issuing of new lodging […]

January 9, 2011 I enjoyed the New Year’s Levee hosted by the City earlier today at RIM Park. I want to thank the K-W Community Orchestra quartet, the WCI Strings, the Waterloo Chinese Philharmonic Chorus, WLU Singers, the Happy Space Clowns, and the K-W Skating Club, for volunteering their time and talent to the event. But […]

November 21, 2010 The last four weeks after Election Day have passed quickly. Too quickly, it often seems. I have been very appreciative of the kind words of congratulations that are still coming in, but I have been even more appreciative of the dozen opportunities to participate in community events so far and that hundreds […]

Fellow Community Members, Thank you for your trust and your support in this past election. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve you, the residents of Ward 6, and to work with Council and the whole community to make Waterloo even stronger. When I began this campaign on April 8, 2010, I set out […]