Writing
Meat and Potatoes
My thoughts on Ward 9, and beyond.
August 29, 2026
The London Chamber of Commerce Sent Me Twelve Questions About the City's Future. Here's Every Answer.
The London Chamber of Commerce sent every candidate the same questionnaire on the economy, the Downtown Plan, health and homelessness, housing, culture, transportation, business regulation, the ReconciliAction Plan, growth infrastructure funding, the Climate Emergency Action Plan, strong-mayor powers, and arts and creative industries. I answered every question, on the record, in my own words.
Read →August 27, 2026
Pillar Nonprofit Network Sent A Questionnaire About the City and the Nonprofit Sector. Here Are My Responses.
Pillar Nonprofit Network sent every candidate a survey on the City's role with London's nonprofit sector, including a standing dialogue mechanism and multi-year funding. I answered every question, on the record, in my own words.
Read →August 25, 2026
Panopti.ca Sent Me Eight Questions About Licence Plate Cameras. Here's Every Answer.
Panopti.ca, a group that tracks the spread of automated licence plate reader cameras across Canada, sent every candidate the same eight questions on fixed cameras, data sharing, retention, audits, and oversight. I answered every one, on the record, in my own words.
Read →August 24, 2026
Climate Action London Sent Me Seven Questions. Here Are All My Answers.
Climate Action London sent every candidate a seven-question survey on transit, affordable housing, the City's Climate Change Reserve Fund, mode share targets, building heights, a lobbyist registry, and a proposed moratorium on AI data centres. I answered every one anyway, on the record, in my own words.
Read →August 3, 2026
Vote Compass Sent Me 30 Questions. Here Are All My Answers.
Vote Compass, a non-partisan questionnaire run by Vox Pop Labs in partnership with the Toronto Star, sent every candidate the same 30 propositions. Some ask about things a single city councillor has no power over, and a few are worded so a straight answer looks bad no matter which way you lean. I answered every one anyway, in my own words. Vote Compass will not publish anything until late September. You do not have to wait that long to see where I stand.
Read →June 3, 2026
High-Density Housing on Colonel Talbot: my objection, and how to file yours before June 9
On June 9, the Planning and Environment Committee considers a plan for six-storey apartment buildings and up to 100 units per hectare at 3924, 4012 and 4050 Colonel Talbot Road in Lambeth, beyond what the City's own Secondary Plan allows and filed without the traffic, servicing and school evidence the Plan requires. Here is the objection I filed, and how you can file your own before the deadline.
Read →May 23, 2026
London City Council Gets Paid HOW MUCH?
On November 4, 2025, a majority of London City Council voted nine to six to reset councillor base pay to the seventieth percentile of full-time employment income for Londoners. The base salary jumps from about $67,000 to about $94,000 at the start of the next council term. Here is who voted yes, who voted no, what the rules say about how council pay gets set, and the gap that none of them closed.
Read →May 17, 2026
The Canary in the Forest City
London's distress is a blaring siren that every city in Canada should heed. Our unemployment rate hit 9.2% in April, the highest of any large city in this country, and the ninth straight month it's climbed. 13,000 jobs gone in four months. Insolvencies at their highest since 2009. Mortgage delinquencies more than doubled since 2020. None of this is making the news.
Read →May 10, 2026
Lambeth lost a school in 2010. The City approved 31 townhouses where it stood.
Last June I wrote on my Substack about a rezoning application at 4402 Colonel Talbot Road. On November 12, 2025, the Planning and Environment Committee approved it five to nothing. Council carried the by-laws unanimously two weeks later. Here is what the City's own staff report says, what residents put on the public record, and the fifteen year arc that connects the closure of a Lambeth school in 2010 to 31 households on the same site in 2025.
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