Parnaby's reflections impressed resident

On June 11 on Newstalk 1010 CFRB at 11:50 a.m., Tayler Parnaby, chief correspondent for that radio station, gave a report entitled Some Curious Connections Between Local Media and Land Developers in Caledon.

Although I did not hear the original broadcast, I was alerted about its content and pulled it off the Internet and would like to bring some of its highlights to your attention.

Tayler Parnaby lives in Caledon, so he knows first hand about the controversial issues plaguing Caledon and its citizens. In his report, Parnaby proves to be an enlightened thinker with investigating skills that get to the core of a problem with very few words but with words based entirely on fact. He started with a comment on the growth topic.

"There are differences between a Town council that wants slow, controlled growth, protecting farmlands, and developers who have very different, very big ideas of their own." He talked about this growth debate "with curiosities, laced with lawsuits, rumours, innuendos and now including the arrest of a man facing the courts on charges of uttering threats and extortion."

He remarked on "the sudden arrival of a third community newspaper . . ." and the arrival of that paper "seems to have coincided with the town's development debate reaching a hard boil."

The name of this paper's owner apparently is not listed, so Parnaby "put the question directly" to the president and the editor of that paper and, "In so many words I was told it was none of your business."

However, this did not stop this correspondent, as he did find out that this third paper "moved to new quarters at 31 Parr Boulevard in Bolton, a building created by Solmar Development Corporation."

In closing and again using a quote from Parnaby's noteworthy commentary, "I think Caledon residents need to understand the newspaper's ownership, which might explain its editorial views, on the town's development issues in particular."

Thank you Tayler Parnaby for taking on this contentious and destructive issue and bringing it to the attention of all your listeners. Hopefully, the people of Caledon will have a better insight into the problems here and understand the "curious connections" you have made.

This report can be obtained in full at www.cfrb.com/news
Lynda Craig
Palgrave