Saurabh Katara Saurabh Katara is bringing his business and leadership experience to the table as he makes a run at an Amherstburg town council seat. Katara said he has leadership, business and planning experience including degrees in business and is currently working on his MBA from Ivey Business School. He has also founded a consulting company where he works with clients in Canada and abroad. “We moved to Amherstburg a few years ago,” he said, with his wife and daughter. “Th

The membership of the town’s audit and finance committee had considerable debate over its makeup and whether the two members of council that are on it should be there. A motion to replace Deputy Mayor Chris Gibb and Councillor Linden Crain, the latter being the committee chair, didn’t go anywhere as it was found to be outside the scope of the committee. The two council members were accused of not bringing the committee’s voice to council, but Crain and Gibb countered the moti

Amherstburg council voted last week on Ontario's Bring Your Own Alcohol Event permits. Town council has unanimously opposed being a part of the Ontario government’s potential expansion of Bring Your Alcohol Event permits. Instead, council supported an administrative recommendation to “update the town’s Municipal Alcohol Management Policy with any industry best practices and to provide that only events making use of a Special Occasion Permit (SOP) provided by the Alcohol and G