Thursday, October 30, 2025

Town of Aurora - POLITICS

Aurora Solicitor Clarifies: Strong Mayor Powers Tied to Commitment Letter

On the topic of strong mayor powers, the next item discussed at the Town of Aurora’s General Committee meeting on November 7, 2023 was the Procedure By-Law. During the...

Cllr Harold Kim Accidentally Opposes Strong Mayor Powers

Councillor Kim mistakenly voted yes in favor of Councillor Weese’s motion, “Aurora Council Opposition to Strong Mayor Powers in Aurora.” Recognizing the error, Cllr Weese generously agreed to reconsider...

Anna Lozyk Romeo for Mayor of Aurora, Municipal Elections 2022

To my Living in Aurora blog readers: I am running for Mayor of Aurora.  It is a great opportunity now to step up and serve our Aurora community at the...

From Shining to Shameful – The Continued Loss of the Oak Ridges Moraine

A picture-perfect vista of soft, rolling hills where wild turkey, deer and coyote once roamed has been reduced to a lifeless, razed and barren landscape. The old yellow barn...

North East Quadrant of Wellington St & John West Way Development Appealed

At the February 22nd, 2022 Council meeting, Aurora Council UNANIMOUSLY (7-0) voted to refuse a 6-storey, 150 unit residential apartment building application on the North East Quadrant of Wellington...

Multi-Million Dollar Artificial Turf Partnership

If someone were to ask me to choose between an artificial and a natural turf field, I would definitely choose the natural turf field. However, I don’t think it’s...

Who is Going to Pay for Another Partnership?

Someone once raised an interesting question on my Facebook Group. They asked me if I did anything else besides “questioning the current administration.” The question was intriguing, not so...

Short Boardwalk (Kwik Kopy Trail), Long Story

I should have known that when I was writing a Letter to the Editor of The Auroran that I was actually writing to the EDITOR. In my Letter to the...

2021-May-25 Aurora Council Meeting – Town Wide Free Wi-Fi Access (Smart City)

Aurora Council Meeting May 25th, 2021 - Motion Town Wide Free Wi-Fi Access Discussion Transcription Motion 9.4 Mayor Mrakas; Re: Town Wide Wi-Fi Access read as follow: Whereas the pandemic has had...

2021-Jan-26 Aurora Council Meeting, Yonge Street Sinkhole Mitigation Project, Update

Recent update on York Region's Sinkhole Mitigation Project (20-102) – currently happening on Yonge Street south of Henderson Drive, in the Town of Aurora. The update was presented to...

Lost in a Moment of Political Nostalgia

Anna Lozyk Romeo
My curiosity doesn’t come with all the answers—it comes with a desire to understand and connect. At the heart of it, I care about how communities grow, how conversations take shape, and how we create space for different perspectives—even when it’s uncomfortable. I don’t pretend to have it all figured out. But I continue to ask, to listen, and to learn.

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