By Lindsey Cole/The Oshawa Express

To some, Clarington Councillor Corinna Traill stepped out of line when she insinuated minutes taken from an incinerator committee were being “doctored” by Region staff.
To others, she was doing her job, speaking on behalf of residents who may be concerned.

By Geoff Zochodne/The Oshawa Express

Oshawa’s auditor general is alleging the City manager has tampered with reports, bullied staff and held private negotiations with the president of Durham College over a property the City is said to be hell-bent on for a new operations centre.

By Geoff Zochodne/The Oshawa Express

The first step is to admit you have a problem.

The second step, for City council, is to direct staff to develop a new budget committee, or at least help overhaul how it puts together its annual budget.

By Lindsey Cole/The Oshawa Express

A passionate plea from members of the Enniskillen Environmental Association to Regional councillors fell on deaf ears.

By Katie Richard/The Oshawa Express

Damone Blackman hasn’t played football all his life but to watch the young Oshawa native play, you wouldn’t know it.

The 23-year-old was recently named the Montreal Alouettes seventh round pick of the 2013 CFL Canadian Draft.

By Katie Richard/The Oshawa Express

Durham College will be home to even more sports stars next year as it’s set to host two major provincial sporting events.

By Katie Richard/The Oshawa Express

Chris Jones is arguably the best baseball player Oshawa has ever produced.

Born in Oshawa in 1976 Jones started playing softball at the tender age of four.

Oshawa Generals' Equipment Manager Bryan Boyes is being inducted into the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame this year. He is seen here with his son by his side. His son has recently graduated and is hoping to follow in his father's footsteps of becoming an equipment manager for a hockey team.

By Robynne Henry/Special to The Oshawa Express

A feat some people can barely do with two wheels, The Unicycle Guy managed to do with one huge wheel.

Paul Abraham, who moved from Oshawa to Toronto three months ago, has ridden his unicycle from Montreal to Toronto.

By Robynne Henry/Special to The Oshawa Express

The halls of G.L. Roberts Collegiate Vocational Institute were flooded with the colour purple recently to celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia.

Oshawa Mayor John Henry presents a proclamation to Lucy Weaver, a board member of FRONTENAC Youth Services during a barbecue put together by the staff during Children's Mental Health Week. FRONTENAC staff members decide as a group what to do every year during Mental Health Week, to raise awareness for youth dealing with mental illnesses.

Just because it’s cheap, doesn’t mean it’s better and that’s if you get it at all.

Police are currently warning the public about a suspect or suspects offering cheap liquor to retail store patrons in Durham.

Durham’s K-9 team is being credited for taking down an armed suspect following a street level robbery in the city.

A 20-year-old Oshawa man is facing several child porn charges after police raided his home.

Durham police executed a search warrant at a Beatrice Street East home on May 16 at 6 a.m. as part of a child porn investigation.

Police are currently looking for two thieves who are on the run after robbing an Oshawa pharmacy.

At 1:30 p.m. on May 13, officers responded to a robbery in progress at the Ritson Pharmacy.

There are sinister implications raised by the backroom battle between Oshawa's auditor general and the City manager. 

Breaches of privacy?

Email leaks?

Back room real estate deals?

Well, now, things have certainly taken a turn for the Byzantine at city hall haven't they?

Premier Kathleen Wynne is using a tactic that should be familiar to anyone watching this year's NHL playoffs: Stickhandling the puck.

Because if the premier's first budget does not pass muster with at least one opposition party, the NDP, let's not kid, her time as premier may be over. 

Does Premier Kathleen Wynne stand for anything?

Does she?

Or is she simply interested in perpetuating her own rule?

The province’s budget is due to be released. In it will be telling answers to the above questions.

Dear Editor,

In my opinion Councillor Tito-Dante Marimpietri was the lead in the fight against the City on behalf of Oshawa citizens and the Highway Heroes Ride organizer.

Dear Editor,

Re: Cellphone rates are astronomical, letter, The Oshawa Express, April 24.

There it goes again, that petulant whine from yet another cellphone addict complaining about the cost of his vice. 

Dear Editor,

I went and bought a printer for my computer recently.

I was absolutely horrified when I looked at my bill and my $29.98 printer actually cost me $11.45 more because of this environment fee.

I am utterly gobsmacked at this price. I could not understand at first why my bill for the printer was almost $50.

By Jennifer Weymark/Archivist

The Oshawa Railway began as the brainchild of Hugo Rathbun and the head of his company, Captain R.C. Carter. This far-sighted company saw a golden opportunity to supply Oshawa with building products from Deseronto.

By Bill Fox/Columnist

With the kidnapping of three young girls who were kept in a Cleveland home for almost 10 years, you wonder if anything was sacred to the kidnappers. Seems to me they were more like animals than human beings.

By Bill Fox/Columnist

I was shocked to see that more than 3,000 food additives; preservatives, flavorings, colours and other ingredients are added to foods in the United States.

I will assume that we are in the same predicament in Canada.

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