The employees of the community work hard daily for their communities and bring their passion in serving the public!  Today we interview the interviewer to discuss his passion about the public service he brings to his community.  Today...

Wars create immediate humanitarian crises and the war in the Ukraine is no different.  In small towns across Canada people are coming together to ask what can we do to help.  During the Syrian crisis a group of local Brighton citizens...

The costs of climate change on the municipal landscape are very real. Most of us remember when everything would freeze-up in December and we didn’t need to worry about thawing and potholes until March.  Today’s constant freeze-thaw cycle i...

We’ve heard that all politics is local.  Certainly from my seat that’s true, but how about if you have to do a good deal of your business in Ottawa as our MP or from Queen’s Park as our MPP? How can you keep things local? How do you stay f...

For a small community like Brighton Inter-Municipal partnerships are both legislated and a good idea. Let’s face it, your grandmother was right when she said many hands make light work.  In Brighton we have both legislated and purpose-buil...

In both 2017 and 2019 we experienced flooding on our shoreline resulting from rising lake levels.  Some blamed climate change – some pointed to the International Joint Commission the group responsible for controlling the dam at the east en...

We have been told that we need to build a million homes over the next decade in Ontario to sustain the growth levels we anticipate in the province.  With the largest air force base in the country less than 30 minutes away and the largest c...

Entertaining the public has been an instrumental part of civil (or not so civil) society since time eternal.  Whether it was gathering to cheer on one’s favourite gladiator in Roman times, the jousts and festivals of the medieval era or wa...

Civilizations have always had their record keepers and story tellers. The Clerk, as municipal record keeper,  holds the municipal story and needs to ensure that story is available to whomever wishes to read it. It's a big responsibility an...

After WWII, Canada splashed out the highways, ports and the other hard and soft services we take for granted until they aren't there anymore. Now communities are struggling to update and expand, repair and replace infrastructure that could be g...

Introducing Community MattersBrighton Mayor Brian Ostrander pulls back the curtain on the people practices of local government to get people talking and thinking locally.