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Notes from the Rafters: 4 August 2020

Hope Jamieson's final council meeting involved a bit of blood, sweat, and tears—plus a little urine in a cup. Also: sucks to your "property values"!

St. John's City Hall on a clear day
Notes from the Rafters: 20 July, 2020

Council is chafing in the muggy summer heat. Not a few councillors and/or mayors and deputy mayors sounded fed up with the rules of council and each other.

St. John's City Hall on a clear day
Notes From the Rafters: 6 July, 2020

Council is back in socially-distant session at the Bunker, and it's as glorious as you expected.

St. John's City Hall on a clear day
Notes From the Rafters: 23 June, 2020

Council is also moving to get space adjacent to Bannerman Park for a mobile food vendor to lease. Do you hear that, taco trucks?!

St. John's City Hall on a clear day
Notes From the Rafters: 8 June 2020

Come for the updates on garage-top hotels and greenlighting deck roofs in a heritage zone. Stay for the rare photo documentation of Cllr Wally Collins.

Notes From the Rafters: Pandora’s Big Yellow Box

Get your most outraged social media warrior face on: you have TWO WEEKS to ALL CAPS your way into Council inboxes to explain why you are pro or con the BYB.

St. John's City Hall on a clear day
Notes From the Rafters: 27 April 2020

Getting as much grinding done as possible before patching turns out to be the most financially efficient—unless referring to household strut-fixing budgets.

St. John's City Hall on a clear day
Notes from the Rafters: 13 April 2020

They have added video. Each councillor now comes to the meeting framed by a hastily curated slice of their natural environment.

St. John's City Hall on a clear day
Notes From the Rafters: ReduxPlagueTimes (RPT)

Let’s mentally splatter-paint our way through some kind of understanding of what is happening in our city’s bi-weekly teleconferences and see how we do!