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Jan 30th, 2014
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Simcoe County news release The County of Simcoe continues to be among the very best in the province when it comes to diverting waste from landfills. Ranking in the top 10 out of 230 municipalities around the province for the fourth straight year, the County of Simcoe received seventh place in the ann...
Jan 27th, 2014
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News release from Midhurst Ratepayers Association On Sunday, January 26, the Midhurst Ratepayers’ Association held their 2014 AGM, “Community Matters”.  It was a hugely successful event with roughly 70 enthusiastic people attending, despite the challenging weather. Our Community App...
Jan 27th, 2014
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By Mark Calzavera Council of Canadians One of the best parts of being an Organizer is working with local groups that are battling to protect their communities from unwanted industrial development. We are currently engaged with more than a dozen such campaigns in our region. On consecutive Saturdays t...
Jan 24th, 2014
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New Tecumseth Free Press January 24, 2014 Simcoe County council’s first draft Code of Conduct presented in November to its governance committee then sent back to staff for further revisions, is back on the agenda January 28 including an amendment that would allow “occasional or incidental...
Jan 22nd, 2014
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New Tecumseth Free Press  A report to Simcoe County’s Committee of the Whole recommends initiating the public notification stage to announce the continued pursuit of a central composting facility (CCF) that would handle existing green bin organics, and potentially pet waste, with the future opt...
Jan 16th, 2014
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Carl Cosack of the Mega-Quarry battle to speak From the MRA This year, our theme is “Community Matters”. When: Sunday January 26 2014 from 4-7 pm Where: Midhurst Community Centre, 74 Doran Road Our community does matter and so we will be hosting a community appreciation buffet (4-5:30) co...
Jan 16th, 2014
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By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance Barrie taxpayers are being asked for more and more money for an array of services, such as police, library, long-term care and environmental protection, when service providers made their pitches to council Monday. Simcoe County kept its request to the city’s two-per-cent...
Jan 14th, 2014
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Let’s put Ontario Ombudsman André Marin in charge of investigating back-room municipal meetings and needless secrecy, not just for some cities, but for all Toronto Star Editorial  Fairness demands that public business be conducted in the open, for all to see, but some municipal councils still indulge...
Jan 14th, 2014
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Municipalities in Ontario are allowed to appoint anybody they’d like to investigate secret meetings, leading to what Ombudsman Andre Marin calls a “patchwork” system where governments can ditch investigators they disagree with By Tim Alamenciak Toronto Star In the City of Brampton, a complaint about ...
Jan 12th, 2014
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AWARE Simcoe news release AWARE Simcoe is calling on Ontario to plan for finite, sustainable communities. The underlying assumption of the current planning regime is one of perpetual growth, with no community ever deemed to be complete, no level of population ever enough. “In our view this assumption...