Markham Civic Centre — Local services in Markham

Got a parking ticket for parking in my own property but for parking without owners consent, went to dispute the ticket with my property tax receipt of few thousand dollars and property registration papers, they booked “court” date 3 times, (canceled 3 times) finally after 6 months they were ready to receive my dispute, this City of Markham employee tells me: -well I can reduce to 20 bucks, otherwise you need to come back again in 6 months to fight the ticket! I told him lady in the reception told me today is the day to fight the ticket! He replied: -no sir you should read the rules before you come here, this is a pre hearing. I asked employee to provide me with rules, he said google it! I did it and couldnt find asked him to find please, he tried and also couldnt find it!!!! I asked ok than no rules here? He said well Im busy you have to go now and come back in 6 months…. This is the City of Markham Professionalism! Even at court you cannot find a professional. I asked to talk to a manager, he says I’m the Manager! Hahaha I feel like Im in a movie...

The Markham Ice and Snow Festival is presented in co-operation with the City of Markham and the Harbin People's Government. The Markham Ice and Snow Festival is hosted outside the Markham Civic Centre from February 9th to 19th, 2019. The Markham Ice and Snow Festival features work by renowned artists from Harbin, China. Somehow, I expected to see something a bit more impressive. After all the Harbin Festival is very impressive indeed. As a reminder, in 2007, the Harbin Festival featured a Canadian themed sculpture, in memoriam of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune. It was awarded a Guinness World Record for the world's largest snow sculpture, measuring 250 meters in length, 8½ meters high and was made from over 13.000 cubic metres of snow. The festival is meant to promote the municipal friendships between the City of Markham and the City of Harbin, China. I am looking forward to a repeat...

Markham is horrible at coordinating construction and managing traffic lights which leads to Traffic-Grid-Lock and inefficient use of roads. For instance, Enterprise Blvd is construction dense due to new building developments. At the top of mind is the "curb-side work" on Enterprise. NO ONE can understand why it's essential to block out a FULL LANE (in an already HIGHLY CONGESTED AREA) during BOTH the AM and PM RUSH HOUR for pretty much 3-5 weeks (even though they were ONLY working on a TINY STRIP of the road). Could you not OPEN UP all lanes for JUST 2 hours during the MORNING RUSH HOUR (at the Very Least)? If you average it out, IT MUST HAVE taken 3-full-days to repair a Square-Foot of Road!!! At least that's how it looks like to neighbour drivers. Pretty sure "The Team" in charge of Markham road constructions is "ASLEEP AT THE...