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Apr 14th, 2019
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  Letter to AWARE Simcoe from Mike Douglas & Anna Bourgeois for the Concerned Citizens of Ramara The decision on the part of Ramara Township council on Monday, March 11th, 2019 not to reinstate the $8,000 per year funding to the shared Physician Recruitment and Retention program is disturbin...
Apr 13th, 2019
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Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland receives letters written by Innisdale Collegiate students in support of Edwin Espinal from Barrie-Innisfil MP John Brassard. By Janet Spring Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland has responded misleadingly, and even deceptively – in the asse...
Apr 8th, 2019
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From Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition Shelly Skinner, Terra Sandy Roy, Dan Janssen, Sheetal Rawal, and Keenan Aylwin join an open-ended discussion on the future of our communities. When Sunday at 3 PM – 4:30 PM This event is just after the SCGC AGM. If you’d like to participate in that, which ...
Apr 8th, 2019
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About 45 people attended AWARE Oro-Medonte’s AGM in Carriage Hills. -AWARE O-M photo News release from AWARE Oro-Medonte On Sunday April 7, 2019 AWARE Oro-Medonte held its 2019 Annual General Meeting at Stanhope House in Carriage Hills with a crowd of 45 people present. Guest speakers were Lind...
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Apr 8th, 2019
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Last Wednesday, Springwater Mayor Don Allen and Chief Administrative Officer Robert Brindley updated township council on the municipality’s legal position with regard to the investigation and prosecution of former mayor Bill French’s 2014 campaign expenses. The mayor and CAO provided answers to the q...
Apr 7th, 2019
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Anne Learn Sharpe of AWARE Essa Groups have until mid-July to submit proposals for seed plant property by Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald The future of the seed plant property in Angus remains as uncertain since the day its closure was announced a year and a half ago. The province says it’s now in the...
Apr 2nd, 2019
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Government of Canada response to House of Commons petition presented Feb. 19 2019 by MP Alex Nuttall (Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte) SIGNED BY THE HONOURABLE CHRYSTIA FREELAND Minister of Foreign Affairs Canada is a strong supporter of the rights of people of Hondurans. The promotion and protection ...
Mar 29th, 2019
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Lawyer Phil Horgan, centre, answers questions outside a Barrie courtroom. AWARE Simcoe photo By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Former Springwater mayor Bill French was in court yesterday on 10 charges of breaching the Municipal Elections Act, in a case that has cost the township’s taxpayers more tha...
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Mar 29th, 2019
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CORRECTION – An earlier version of this blog misstated the vote on the ‘LPAT’ clause. AWARE Simcoe regrets the error. Springwater Township Council adopted a code of conduct last week – but first they eliminated a controversial clause limiting a councillor’s right to speak. The claus...
Mar 29th, 2019
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Beaver River wetlands – Friends of the Greenbelt photo Lakehead prof focusing research on Lake Simcoe, Visiting McGill professor offers ideas for carbon capture By: Nathan Taylor Orillia Matters Scientists and academics around the world are tackling one of the biggest issues of our time: climat...