Welcome!

It's easy to find information about provincial and federal politics. The major political parties all have active webspaces, and goings on receive extensive media coverage - much of it posted online.

The same isn't true of municipal politics: stories will receive superficial coverage in local newspapers (often said coverage won't be posted online), and if a citizen really wants to be informed he has little choice but to sift through primary documentation himself. And yet, municipal politics can the most interesting of levels - with all members of a city council free to vote as independents, key decisions are more likely to hinge on individual thinking than at the much more inert and more constitutionally sovereign levels. Besides that, when it comes time to cast a ballot, citizens must do so on the basis of their local candidates, without the helpful labels and colour schemes that drive so much voting at other levels.

Our hope, then, is that this site will evolve into a major source of municipal news, rumour, and analysis. Or maybe it will just go silent after the novelty wears off and we find out we're all busy in "real life".

Either way: welcome.