Anger flares during heated debate
The political ambitions of Vaughan Liberal incumbent Maurizio Bevilacqua and Conservative challenger Richard Lorello were the topic of much-heated debate Monday night.
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MPs must deliver cash: councillors
The number 1 issue concerning the City of Vaughan in the current federal campaign, councillors say, is infrastructure. By a long shot.
Where the contenders stand in Vaughan riding
With the federal election scheduled for Oct. 14, Vaughan Today caught up with Vaughan candidates from the Conservatives, Liberals and Greens to get their take on some of the issues facing voters. Here’s their take on our questions.
Sparks fly over sign destruction
The battle for votes in the riding of Vaughan has claimed a number of Liberal incumbent Maurizio Bevilacqua’s election signs.
City set for battle with mayor
The City of Vaughan is gearing up for a head-on legal fight with its mayor.
Councillors ‘appalled’ by Jackson
Embattled Mayor Linda Jackson’s latest salvo in the controversy over her campaign finances has councillors seeing red and talking tough. In a move that preempts charges being laid against her by city-retained prosecutor Timothy Wilkin, Jackson notified the city late last Friday afternoon she intends to fight council’s actions in court.
Jackson — stay put or go?
He’s not saying the mayor should quit. But, Councillor Alan Shefman says, “if I was in her position, if that was me, I would resign.”
Jackson’s future in jeopardy
Mayor Linda Jackson says she was unaware of the apparent mismanagement of her 2006 campaign finances that has now placed her job in jeopardy. But if she didn’t know what was going on with her election dollars, her husband and campaign manager Mario Campese did, according to auditors Ken Froese and Glen R. Davison, who uncovered several apparent contraventions of the Municipal Elections Act.
Council vetoes audit requests
A depleted council of just three voted last week to deny self-described watchdog Paul De Buono’s trio of audit requests.
Audit mania: Two more reps targeted
Council’s latest audit request targets were prepared for the inevitable. “Nothing surprises me anymore,” Ward 2 councillor Tony Carella said Monday.
More woes for troubled mayor
Mayor Linda Jackson has been ordered by the court to explain remarks she made recently scolding unnamed opponents.
Embattled mayor strikes back at critics
The unrelenting pressure on Mayor Linda Jackson isn’t just distracting her from her job. “It makes us the biggest laughingstock in the GTA,” she said.