from the Association of Municipalities of Ontario Lynn Dollin, Deputy Mayor of the Town of Innisfil, was acclaimed President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) today at the Association’s 2016 conference in Windsor. “I’m proud to represent the interests of 443 Onta...
From 350.org We need your voice at the Georgian Triangle Climate Change consultation! The meeting will be at the Collingwood Public Library on Wednesday August 24th at 6:30 pm. ‘Town hall’ meetings like this one have been requested by the Federal government and are being held across Canad...
By Bob Bruton Barrie Examiner Ken Robertson wants his voice heard, and his vote to count, in the next city election. The Barrie resident has asked to address council this fall about having a ranked ballot voting system in the 2018 election. “We’re getting people elected to council that are only...
From New Tecumseth Free Press Simcoe County’s curbside waste collection contractor has had problems keeping to its weekly pick-up schedule, including not completing routes until the next day, “due to an accute employee shortage,” according to an update to County councillors. Progres...
Alex Nuttall MP (Barrie – Springwater – Oro-Medonte) is holding town halls on topics that will include electoral reform, physician-assisted suicide, TPP and Q & A on federal issues. Wednesday August 17 2-4 PM – ORO-MEDONTE Township Building 148 Line 7 South 4:30-6:30 PM – BARRIE...
News release from Friends of Simcoe County Forests Friends of Simcoe County Forests is calling on Simcoe County to stand behind their twenty-year vision for the municipal forests and stop their plan to permanently destroy the Freele Tract. Nowhere in Council’s twenty-year forestry management plan ‘Si...
By Rebecca Morelle Science Correspondent, BBC News A 5p charge for plastic bags was introduced in England in 2015 Plastic bag use has plummeted in England since the introduction of a 5p charge last year, the government has said. In the six months after the levy was brought in last October, 640 millio...
By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Politics makes strange bedfellows. In this case, it was the Midhurst Ratepayers Association lined up with the County of Simcoe, the Township of Springwater and the Province of Ontario in a common front before the Ontario Municipal Board to foil the development plans...
By Kenneth Jackson APTN As The Killers played their last song Sunday wrapping up another year of the massive WayHome music festival, the event’s legal troubles played on. The township says it is investigating the festival for allegedly breaking its permit for the second year in a row, allowing 35,000...
By Erica Woods Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation THE BEGINNING OF A MOVEMENT In 2013, Midhurst resident and stay-at-home mom Margaret Prophet went to a community meeting about a proposed development. Margaret left the meeting shocked by the sense that the community was being run over roughshod by d...
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