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The City of Pickering is set to vote next month on a secondary housing development plan that could transform the municipality’s landscape east of Toronto over the next quarter-century. Mayor Kevin Ashe is presenting the move, which could result in the building of homes for more than 70,000 people, as a job creator and key solution to address the housing shortage. But critics argue the plan to develop the agricultural area is costly and unnecessary, and a local First Nation is sounding the alarm about a lack of consultation.

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A city councillor in Pickering is calling herself a “modern-day slave” after council voted to dock her pay for 30 days following an investigation by the city’s integrity commissioner.

Coun. Lisa Robinson made the comment in a post on Facebook on Tuesday.

Robinson’s remarks followed a ruling by the integrity commissioner which found that her decision to identify three citizens by name in a Facebook post in which she announced that her annual Halloween event for charity would be cancelled amounted to a “bully tactic” which showed “blatant disregard for the wellbeing of others.”

Council voted to have me work for free for the next 30 days for a ‘sarcastic remark’ on my personal FB post. I am now a modern day slave,” Robinson said in the Tuesday post.

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Someone needs to explain to this white girl that having a month's pay docked for encouraging harassment of citizens she represents as a city councillor is not the same as fucking slavery.

May 12 was the birthday of such diverse personages as Katharine Hepburn; Al Shean of Gallagher and Shean; Baby Leroy; Edward Lear; George Carlin; Burt Bacharach; Tom Snyder; Millie Perkins; Lionel Belmore; and sideshow attraction Myrtle Corbin. But I’ve already written about them — just follow the links to read those posts. I’m a little surprised it has taken me this long to get around to English…

Sam Wortington as Jake Sully (Avatar) /Trent Gephart (Horizon)

Giovanni Ribisi as Parker Selfridge (Avatar) /Pickering (Horizon)