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Does the Loan By-Law Support the Recreation Centre?

Westmount’s latest PR move, led by none other than Jonathan Goldbloom, indicates that the City is getting more desperate to start the Recreation Centre construction quickly.   It’s quite understandable, given that no one on Council wants a large, open, mud pit during the next municipal election campaign in the fall of 2013.  The Council and the Mayor urgently and desperately need this project to start now, citizens be damned.

And all the City’s usual shills have been called to action. The WMA have stayed silent despite the fact that the project has changed considerably right under their “watchful” eyes.  The Westmount Examiner’s Wayne Larsen has stopped accepting letters from concerned citizens about the Centre, probably for fear of rocking the boat with his friends at Selwyn House, and his family at City Hall.  The Westmount Independent remains a complete non-entity when it comes to City oversight.   And important information has been put under tight embargo from the public and only shared with a privileged few .  There’s no question who the City and its gang think is the enemy.  It’s the citizens of Westmount, of course!

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Letter: Open Letter to Hal Hannaford

In our continuing Letters series, we present an open letter from Westmount architect, David Ludmer to Hal Hannaford, Head Master of Selwyn House School, concerning Selwyn House’s role in the planning of the Westmount Recreation Centre.    Wayne Larsen, Editor of The Westmount Examiner, refused to print this important letter, leading us to wonder why.   Have all of  Westmount’s traditional media fallen prey to the City’s PR tactics?  And, if so,  what could be the reason for this? 

WW thinks Ludmer sends  a powerful message to Selwyn House in this letter, but we’re not expecting any miracles.    We think Selwyn House is too busy teaching its students an important message:  that to be successful in life, one must be sure to suck at the public teet.  

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