$3.3-million increase approved By BOB BRUTON – Barrie Examiner April 5 2011 The $400,000 is gone from this year’s Barrie city police budget. City council upheld its previous decision to cut that amount Monday, approving a $3.3-million increase in...

Toronto Star March 31 3011 Port Hope is back in the spotlight. The town’s nuclear past is its legacy and its curse. Eldorado Nuclear Ltd., which refined radium used for treating cancer, and uranium that helped the Manhattan Project develop the fi...

Harper pledges deadline to wrap up EU and India trade talks Maude Barlow warns against deals during election period  By Michael Lewis Toronto Star March 31 2011 Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged Thursday to clinch a free-trade deal with the Europea...

By WES KELLER Orangeville Citizen March 31 2011 Shelburne council is joining Melancthon in seeking a 120- day extension to the statutory 30-day time allowed for responses to the quarry application by The Highland Companies, and the township is lobbying...

Concerns over user-pay trash By Miriam King March 31 2011 In an update presented to Innisfil Council on March 16, Simcoe County CAO Mark Aiken touched on waste management, and the County’s plan to go to full “user pay” for trash in 20...

By BOB BRUTON – Barrie Examiner April 2 2011 Most winning candidates were willing to invest in themselves during last fall’s Barrie election. Financial statements filed by the top candidates for ward councillors and mayor show they helped, or att...

AWARE Simcoe April 1 2011Thirty Simcoe County employees made Ontario's "sunshine" list of public employees making over $100,000 a year. One, CAO Mark Aitken, clocks in at $205, 227.21 with $1,123.92 in taxable benefits. There has been pressure on the g...

Springwater's flat rate policing tax adds to burden of less fortunate Letter to the Springwater News March 31 2011First of all the mayor and councillors did a thorough job of vetting the budget for Springwater and did so in a prudent manner. I have no ...

News release from Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility March 31 2011Three Mile Island taught us all that nuclear power is inherently dangerous.  With Chernobyl the whole world witnessed the awesome power of a total nuclear meltdown.  At Fukush...

By Maija Hoggett Simcoe.com Mar 31, 2011SIMCOE COUNTY – Mixed messages from Simcoe County on user-pay garbage tags and the general direction of the county’s waste management strategy aren’t sitting well with some county councillors....