Deachman: The part of Jim Watson I miss | Page 893 | Unpublished
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Author: Bruce Deachman
Publication Date: May 8, 2026 - 04:00

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Deachman: The part of Jim Watson I miss

May 8, 2026
During the 2018 municipal election campaign, I spent a day shadowing incumbent mayor Jim Watson as he worked the voter trail. Driving along the Airport Parkway to an event at the EY Centre, he noticed that the recently paved road hadn’t yet had lines painted on it, and so he immediately took out his phone and called whoever at the city was responsible to get that done. Read More


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