Barrie scores F on affordable housing 2 years in a row  By Janis Ramsay Barrie Advance Nov 27, 2011 BARRIE – As a real estate agent, George Nagel knows it’s illegal to have a basement apartment. But the Sutton agent says he has clients who tell h...

AWARE Simcoe November 28 2011"Banana Split," a documentary about the banana industry made by a Thunder Bay company will be screened 7 pm on Friday Dec 2 at the Imperial Theatre on Dunlop St downtown Barrie. ...

AWARE Simcoe November 28 2011When we can see a solution, it's easier to admit that there is a problem....

News release from Survival International November 28 2011As the UN’s climate change conference begins in Durban, Survival International calls for the ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples to be heeded in global decisions concerning climat...

UPDATED Recycling centre issue AWARE Simcoe November 26 2011People with concerns about a plan to locate a recycling operation in Midland near Martyrs' Shrine, Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and the Wye Marsh Wildlife Area will march to Midland Town Hall...

By Valerie Hauch Toronto Star November 25 2011 Justice Peter Tetley told a courtroom Friday he knows there are many people in the province and country and “in my own family who consume raw milk.’’ And there may be “frailties in the current laws as far ...

By DOUGLAS GLYNN Midland Free Press November 25 2011 VICTORIA HARBOUR -An application to amend Tay Township’s official plan and to rezone a vacant residential build lot to allow expansion of Queen’s Cove Marina has received a mixed reaction...

Councillor constantly outvoted By DOUGLAS GLYNN Midland Free Press November 25 2011 VICTORIA HARBOUR -A former councillor has called on Tay Township Council to ensure that a review of the ward system provides Waubaushene with equal representation. Read...

By DOUGLAS GLYNN Midland Free Press November 25 2011  Town staff have been asked to look for more ways to cut spending so the over-all increase in the cost of running the town in 2012 is kept to two per cent. Read more ...

By Janis Ramsay Barrie Advance Nov 25, 2011  BARRIE –  As a local business manager, Steve Thompson knows the importance of shipment deadlines. “A lot of our shipments come by truck and we’re finding more and more it’s plus one day or two days,” s...