A dark turn at city hall

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 m ...

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 ...

There seems to be a day, a week and a month for any and every cause out there. It’s hard to keep track of them at times.

But many of them have a common denominator: the unpaid volunte ...

Oshawa must put its airport to work or it shouldn’t have an airport, simple as that.

The airport has experienced some choppy skies in recent years.

Seneca College passed on mo ...

How did it come to this?

However you want to frame it, having a City council accused of being unpatriotic is never a good look.

Suing the organizer of a charitable motorcycle ride f ...

The sunshine list isn’t a mark of shame. It is a sign of accountability.

To be put on the list should inspire pride in a person, but also responsibility. They serve on behalf of the t ...

Say your neighbour wants to build a pool. 

Building it will make their family happier, which should in turn make their neighbours happy with the fact they live next to nice people.&nbs ...

By Bill Fox/Columnist

About a month ago, I wrote a column entitled “My 10 Hopes for the New Pope.”

Much to almost everyone\'s surprise, we may have that pope myself and ...

The March 13 edition of The Oshawa Express had been on newsstands for only a few hours before Warriors Tree Service leapt into action.

Reading the story of Evelyn Richards, a pair of Good S ...

The Oshawa Express’ reporters were on scene last October when a 27-hour standoff between an armed suspect and Durham Regional Police was ongoing.

Plenty of media types lined Hopkins S ...

If this seems unclear, it is because the situation is unclear.

A majority of City council voted down the 2013 capital budget. In doing so, they, inadvertently or not, froze the rest of the ...

Premier Kathleen Wynne has had a busy week.

First came her Speech from the Throne, the traditional kick-off for the Ontario Legislature. It was conciliatory, it was vague, it was historical ...

A long-standing relationship with the Durham school boards has likely come to an end because Regional council decided to up the student bus pass rate for the boards by not five, not 10, but nearly ...

The City’s Corporate Services Committee choosing to punt on the Fire Master Plan shows how tough times have gotten.
Oshawa’s financial situation remains a precarious one. The days ...

There comes a point, and it is occurring more frequently, where a city must decide between sound financial planning and a bold statement.

And as Oshawa\'s councillors sit down to finalize a ...