Pickering Council

• Racial slurs, swastika and nudity: Pickering meeting under police investigation

  Durham Regional Police say the disturbing and hate-motivated disruptions took place at a city Zoom meeting on Feb. 12.

  Politics

  Feb 21, 2025
  
• Decades-long battle to bring airport to Pickering grounded by feds

  A decades-long battle in Ontario over whether to build an airport on land in the northern portion of Pickering appears to have finally come to an end.

  Canada

  Jan 27, 2025
  
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• OPP investigating ‘criminal allegations’ from divided Ontario council

  In a statement Thursday, OPP said it was conducting an investigation into allegations made by Pickering City Council.

  Canada

  Jan 9, 2025
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• Ontario council moves meetings online citing ‘growing infiltration of alt-right’

  Pickering council has been engaged in a growing battle with one member of council, who the mayor has claimed is linked to alt-right figures and has disrupted repeated meetings.

  Canada

  Jan 3, 2025
• Ontario councillor gets severe pay penalty as Pickering wants stronger recourse

  Pickering's mayor said he isn't optimistic Lisa Robinson's latest pay suspension – her third since last September – will have much of an impact. 

  Politics

  Sep 27, 2024
• ‘Nonsense’: Warring Ontario councillors trade accusations, while police watch meetings

  A Pickering councillor says one of her colleagues is the key to division on council that has seen police required at some meetings and growing public signs of dysfunction.

  Canada

  Aug 1, 2024
• Councillor in Pickering, Ont., posts controversial op-ed criticizing Black History Month

  A Pickering, Ont., councillor is in hot water again after penning an op-ed criticizing Black History Month. Lisa Robinson wrote that such events only create more social divisions.

  Canada

  Feb 9, 2024
• Pickering airport proposal is 50 years old. Opponents hope it will finally be scrapped

  Those who support the airport argue, however, that it would provide a 'rare opportunity' to boost the region's economy and attract investments.

  Canada

  May 6, 2023
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• Ford government blasts Pickering council for rejecting long-term care home MZO request

  Orchard Villa was one of seven long-term care homes forced to call in the Canadian military at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with soldiers observing 'horrifying' conditions.

  Canada

  May 3, 2023