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	<title>philip alves &#187; Councillor Alan Shefman</title>
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		<title>Who will challenge current council?</title>
		<link>http://www.philipalves.com/2009/07/02/who-will-challenge-current-council/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Alves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 municipal election is still a year and a half away. That much is certain. What isn’t is who will vie for the nine seats on city council, though speculation has been running high in recent months and shows no sign of cooling off.]]></description>
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		<title>New rules coming</title>
		<link>http://www.philipalves.com/2009/03/24/new-rules-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Alves</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[integrity commissioner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Suzanne Craig]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vaughan’s new integrity commissioner says her job isn’t the cleanup of city hall. It’s to create rules and make sure they’re being followed. Suzanne Craig, who will be leaving her post as Toronto’s director of corporate access and privacy to take up her new position on April 6, says she’s heard the cleanup suggestion and it’s presumptuous.]]></description>
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		<title>Newsmaker of the Year</title>
		<link>http://www.philipalves.com/2009/01/01/newsmaker-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Alves</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regional Councillor Gino Rosati]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regional Councillor Joyce Frustaglio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regional Councillor Mario Ferri]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking back at 2008, Vaughan Today’s editorial staff faced what turned out to be an easy decision when choosing Newsmaker of the Year. There were worthy runners up, but only nine could come out on top. Love them or hate them, you couldn’t avoid them in 2008.]]></description>
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		<title>Jackson &#8212; stay put or go?</title>
		<link>http://www.philipalves.com/2008/07/03/jackson-stay-put-or-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.philipalves.com/2008/07/03/jackson-stay-put-or-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Alves</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[audit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor Alan Shefman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor Sandra Yeung Racco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayor Linda Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Municipal Elections Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regional Councillor Joyce Frustaglio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaughan city council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[He’s not saying the mayor should quit. But, Councillor Alan Shefman says, “if I was in her position, if that was me, I would resign.”]]></description>
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		<title>City looks into garbage loophole</title>
		<link>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/12/04/city-looks-into-garbage-loophole/</link>
		<comments>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/12/04/city-looks-into-garbage-loophole/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Alves</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vaughan Today]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[three-stream waste management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waste-diversion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Councillors want to close a loophole in the city’s organic-waste strategy that exempts low-rise condominium and townhouse developers from including three-stream waste management in new projects.]]></description>
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		<title>Diverse groups attend forum</title>
		<link>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/11/25/diverse-groups-attend-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/11/25/diverse-groups-attend-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Alves</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[City of Vaughan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor Alan Shefman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multicultural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaughan Diversity Workshop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The City of Vaughan showed its multicultural stripes last week by talking diversity and equity issues with its citizens. The Community Equity and Diversity Committee, led by Ward 5 councillor Alan Shefman, was host to the second annual Vaughan Diversity Workshop on Nov. 16 at Dufferin Clark Community Centre.]]></description>
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		<title>Di Biase: &#8216;Vindication&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/11/22/di-biase-vindication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/11/22/di-biase-vindication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Alves</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[City Clerk John Leach]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael DiBiase]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former mayor Michael Di Biase says he feels “comfortable that just retribution” has been meted out after last week’s dismissal of Vaughan City Clerk John Leach.]]></description>
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		<title>BluWood sparks debate &#8212; again</title>
		<link>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/11/18/bluwood-sparks-debate-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/11/18/bluwood-sparks-debate-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Alves</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regional Councillor Joyce Frustaglio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaughan city council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A heated and contentious debate about the appropriate role of Vaughan in advocating specific products flared up again last week. The debate began in September when Regional Councillor Joyce Frustaglio asked council to defer receiving information on BluWood, a product used in the construction industry, until last week’s committee of the whole meeting.]]></description>
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		<title>Council sees red over BluWood</title>
		<link>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/09/14/council-sees-red-over-bluwood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/09/14/council-sees-red-over-bluwood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Alves</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BluWood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What might have been a mundane piece of business before council on Monday turned into a heated debate about the appropriate role of the City in advocating specific products. Council voted to defer receiving information on BluWood, a product used in the construction industry, until a Committee of the Whole meeting scheduled for November. Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Junk-mail litter to be addressed by city council</title>
		<link>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/09/14/junk-mail-litter-to-be-addressed-by-city-council/</link>
		<comments>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/09/14/junk-mail-litter-to-be-addressed-by-city-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Alves</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vaughan Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor Alan Shefman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor Tony Carella]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mayor Linda Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regional Councillor Gino Rosati]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regional Councillor Joyce Frustaglio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[super mailboxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An amended resolution by two councillors to tackle discarded junk mail littering the ground around super mailboxes received tentative, yet near-unanimous support at Monday&#8217;s council meeting. The original resolution was drafted by councillors Tony Carella, Ward 2, and Alan Shefman, Ward 5, and introduced at last week&#8217;s Committee of the Whole meeting. It did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Teamwork&#8217; the new byword as council returns</title>
		<link>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/08/31/teamwork-the-new-byword-as-council-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.philipalves.com/2007/08/31/teamwork-the-new-byword-as-council-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Alves</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Councillor Sandra Yeung Racco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor Tony Carella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regional Councillor Mario Ferri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaughan city council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Traffic, waste and city&#8217;s image among top issues facing councillors this fall Ward 5 councillor Alan Shefman says he is hoping the upcoming council session will usher in a new sense of teamwork among his colleagues, and it sounds like he may get his wish. Like the thousands of Vaughan children heading back to school [...]]]></description>
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