The City of Richmond Hill’s official motto, “En la rose je fleuris” is derived from the Duke of Richmond’s coat-of-arms. During the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century Richmond Hill was the largest supplier of roses in Canada. In the 21st century Richmond Hill is poised to be Ontario’s most dysfunctional […]
Read more "Makin’ their way. The only way they know how"NASA claims that about once a year, an automobile-sized asteroid hits Earth’s atmosphere, creates an impressive fireball, and burns up before reaching the surface. Luckily we have prime seating to watch such a spectacle unfolding next door in Richmond Hill. When Richmond Hill’s Regional councillor Brenda Hogg retired two years ago fellow Ward 5 Councillor […]
Read more "Richmond Hill’s Asteroid comes crashing down to earth"Prince Andrew is just the latest in a string of reminders of how much a dumpster fire the British Royal Family is, and how as Canadians we should steer clear of it. It’s not a like the general public are surprised to find out how great a douche Andrew is, there has been more than […]
Read more "The Rebuke of York"Thanks to Clr. Kim we learn from the April 10th council meeting that there are no meeting minutes of the Joint Ops monitoring task force. Kim goes one further to state, and rightly so that even when there are minutes, they are not reflective of the discussion that took place. You can watch it here on the […]
Read more "(cough) the record"Christine Elliot called the Ontario Pathetic Conservative party a toxic brand. Nowhere has this shown to be truer than my home riding of Newmarket-Aurora. Two weeks ago the riding association tweeted out that they were completely behind their “fantastic candidate”: McGrath proved to be so fantastic that less than a week later the nomination for […]
Read more "Charity is no substitute for justice withheld"Back in 2014 Prince Andrew made an appearance in Richmond Hill. Only minutes away he couldn’t be convinced to visit in person to unveil a plaque so the town had to take it to him. That didn’t stop the town from falsely claiming that he actually visited the park on their official website. Prince Andrew […]
Read more "every Tom, Dick and Harry"This July 20th news release from the town recognizes ProfitGuide naming Richmond Hill the 6th most lucrative place to do business : One day later the Banner reported that Vaughan ranked second best place in Ontario to do business, and eighth in the country. They also beat out Richmond Hill for being the most lucrative […]
Read more "Unfinished Business"Richmond Hill, not Aurora, has been chosen as one of 23 host communities for an immersive mobile dome village celebrating the country’s 150th anniversary next year. We learn that organizers of the sesquicentennial initiative, through the Ministry of Heritage, approached Richmond Hill based on their success of hosting the Olympic torch and Pan Am torch […]
Read more "23 birthday towns and Aurora ain’t one"Continuing on the town’s decision to move to increasing its salt application for winter maintenance which I posted on here: https://wattstrending.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/adding-in-salt-to-injury/ In 2003 Richmond Hill built a Snow Storage facility which I highlighted in comments to a post back in August here: https://wattstrending.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/nitpickypedia/ I see over on Evelyn Buck’s blog the whole process is being […]
Read more "needs more salt"Marshall Zhang of Richmond Hill recently discovered a new combination of drugs that could possibly be used to as a treatment for cystic fibrosis. Oh yeah, he's also 16 years old, and a Grade 11 student at Bayview Secondary School. If you are looking for reassurance of Ontario's public education system, especially how it's playing […]
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