The theme this year is Honouring the Cycle of Life From Simcoe.com Thursday, March 2, 2023 Georgian College’s in-person powwow returns this March for the first time in four years. Students, employees and the public are invited to the college’s 15th tra...

‘Surely, our lives that you disrupt are worth more than your meeting,’ says resident who protested transit changes at meeting and felt ignored by mayor Letter to the Editor Mar 2, 2023 Phot: Protesters showed up at the Orillia City Centre M...

Conservancy has big plans with Dorthea Hangaard at helm; ‘The organization is in good hands,’ says former executive director Photo: Dorthea Hangaard, executive director of the Couchiching Conservancy, is shown with former executive director...

Milestone worth celebrating, but still more work to do, says county official Mar 2, 2023 The County of Simcoe is wasting no time celebrating a milestone. Since 2008, the county has collected more than 200,000 tonnes of organic material from households ...

The new chief justice must reflect ‘the values that I have … (that) only I can assess,’ says Downey, a longtime Orillia lawyer; There is ‘no transparency,’ says letter writer Photo, Attorney General Doug Downey  | Kevin La...

‘If a large number of Canadians would feel some healing and validation by changing one word in our national anthem, I vote yes’ says letter writer From BarrrieToday, Letter to the Editor Mar 3, 2023 Photo:Canadian flag, Elizabeth Keith/Vill...

‘The government is modernizing its almost 50-year-old environmental assessment process that is too slow, too costly, and too burdensome,’ says PCs of bill From OrilliaMatters Mar 1 2023 Charlie Pinkerton Photo: Infrastructure Minister Kinga...

The fury of insults and racial slurs targeting Jully Black ‘highlight the need for a better understanding of the true history of this land,’ says local elder From CollingwoodToday, Feb 28 2023 Column: Jeff Monague Long before anyone ever th...

Council approves fee in licence hike from $1,000 to $3,000 per year; ‘The fee increase is sizable enough to amount to a de facto prohibition on ownership,’ says lawyer From OrilliaMatters DaveDawson Despite the vocal objections of seven loc...

Attorney general, who’s also MPP for Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte, wouldn’t elaborate on past comments that critics say risk politicizing the courts Aiden Chamandy, From BarrieToday, Feb 28 2023 Photo: Chris Young/The Canadian Press Edito...