AWARE Simcoe note: Peter Rosenthal represented Vicki Monague when she and Anne Ritchie-Nahuis were sued by the County of Simcoe for their roles in the 2009 Site 41 battle, and helped negotiate a settlement that required county council to meet (they voted to stop the dump). He also represented numerou...

Click here for PDF version Preamble: Currently, planning in Simcoe County, Barrie and Orillia is undertaken to accommodate projected development and population growth. There is no evaluation of whether the growth will be beneficial or harmful to the people of the county. In contrast, AWARE Simcoe tak...

Being good ancestors: the politics of sustainabilityAWARE Simcoe October 24 2013A lively conversation on beachBOOSTERradio in which Bill French talks about how we all know growth doesn't pay for itself, making Wasaga Beach the entertainment capital of Simcoe County, and picking up on Barrie's idea of...

Motion approved by the AWARE Simcoe Board of Directors April 11 2013 WHEREAS Simcoe County’s Draft Modified Official Plan differs significantly from the proposed Official Plan that was the subject of public consultation in 2008 and WHEREAS most of the changes were made through private negotiati...

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AWARE Simcoe January 1 2012AWARE Simcoe. was founded in 2010 in the wake of the Dump Site 41 victory, with the aim of starting or uniting active citizen watchdog organizations in all of Simcoe County’s 16 municipalities and two separated cities. We are committed to transparency and accountability in ...

Letter to the Orillia Packet and Times November 3 2011re: "Occupy message being corrupted"While reading the banter between Kearey-Moreland and Stanton I am reminded that every action has an equal and opposite reaction....