Barrie Advance Jan 14, 2011Barrie needs to start thinking about being cool and hip, said a branding specialist paid to help revitalize downtown.Roger Brooks paid another visit to Barrie this week and has many ideas to fix the problems.An amphitheatre i...

By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance January 18 2011BARRIE - With a view of Highway 400 and good access that could get even better with a possible interchange at Big Bay Point Road, a former toilet-seat factory could see a new lease on life in 2011. ...

Letter to the Topic January 6 2011Re: Councillors take issue with interchange reportOn Jan. 4, I attended the environmental assessment presentation by McCormick Rankin Corporation with regard to the 5th Line/Hwy. 400 interchange.I am concerned the Town...

By Jay Gutteridge Bradford Topic Jan 06, 2011 Some Bradford West Gwillimbury council members expressed concern over a proposed interchange at Hwy. 400 and 5th Line at a meeting Jan. 4.Council met to hear a presentation on the class environmental assess...

Letter from Steven Kaasgaard 23 Skidoo January 15 2011Re: Smart growth - or outsmarted? (Toronto Star)Who are we kidding?Brampton, Bolton, Caledon, Halton, Alliston, Mississauga, Orangeville, Milton, Vaughn, Whitby, Markham, Aurora, Newmarket, Barrie e...

Critics say province caved on Innisfil and BWG industrial zonesBy Phinjo Gombu Toronto Star January 14 2011Smart growth — or outsmarted?Ontario won international kudos four years ago for Places to Grow, a revolutionary scheme to curb urban sprawl. But ...

By Jennifer Bain Food Editor Toronto Star January 15 2011Food is so plentiful in Canada that even our garbage cans are full of it.We throw away 40 per cent of our edibles every year according to most recent estimates. If wasting food is shameful, then ...

No time to mess around on garbage issueBy Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe January 15 2010Simcoe County councillors, meeting in committee, have shaved a half percentage point off the 2011 cost to local taxpayers. The revised $355 million budget, comprising a ...

Council meal break gets the axe By MORGAN IAN ADAMS Collignwood Enterprise Bulletin January 14 2011COLLINGWOOD -- Councillors made their first budget cut, Monday night, chopping the pre-meeting meal that ate up $10,000 on an annual basis. ...

By NATHAN TAYLOR Orillia Packet and Times January 14 2011ORO-MEDONTE TWP. -- Environmental authorities have made their pitch for cash to Oro-Medonte Township.During a meeting Wednesday, council heard from the Severn Sound Environmental Association (SSE...