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Jan 13th, 2014
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Each year at the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority AGM, the chair is elected for the coming year. This year, at the meeting held January 10, Darren White, Deputy Mayor of Melanchthon Township (Dufferin County) challenged incumbent chair Wasaga Beach Councillor Nina Bifolchi for the position. ...
Jan 7th, 2014
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Councillors can effect massive change between elections. Nothing wrong with that – if that’s the mandate they were given by voters. But that was not the case in Springwater and Adjala-Tosorontio , two rural municipalities where residents are fighting plans for huge developments that would drastically...
Dec 6th, 2013
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UPDATED – see below Does Premier Kathleen Wynne keep Linda Jeffrey in cabinet just to make herself look good? Our group’s recent contact with the two members of the Ontario Liberal government has been a study in contrasts. On October 24, Jeffrey, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, a...
Dec 6th, 2013
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In a presentation to the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority board of directors in October, the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) asked the NVCA board to delay implementing revised permit fees which had been recommended by a sub-committee set up by the board. BILD sugges...