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Jan 11th, 2013
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By Ian McInroy, Barrie Examiner  January 10, 2013 INNISFIL - Will Saturday night be the last evening of harness horse racing at Georgian Downs?Horse breeder Mike Sinclair thinks it could be....
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Jan 11th, 2013
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By Bob Bruton, Barrie Examiner January 8, 2013  Barrie councillors received a staff report Monday detailing four opinion polls showing city residents don’t want a casino as part of a hotel/convention centre in the downtown, but took no action on it....
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Jan 8th, 2013
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Environment Canada news release January 7 2013Today, the Honourable Peter Van Loan, Member of Parliament for York—Simcoe, on behalf of the Honourable Peter Kent, Canada's Environment Minister, announced that funding is available for clean-up projects through the Lake Simcoe/South-eastern Georgian Bay...
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Jan 6th, 2013
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Township of Springwater posting January 3 2013 Council approved of a Ward Boundary Review (WBR). Reviews are undertaken for several reasons, such as but not limited to representation by population. Although Ward 1 and 2 have the greatest variance by population, this review is intended to solicit feed...
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Jan 6th, 2013
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New Tec Free Press January 8, 2013 One of the first concrete decisions made by council as part of the 2013 municipal budget package is approval of a 1.5 per cent Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) increase for Town staff. As has been the case for the past few years now, money is set aside […]...
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Jan 6th, 2013
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New Tec Free Press January 3, 2013  In its Statement of Defence (SoD) of a $750,000 lawsuit delivered just before Christmas, The Corporation of the Town of New Tecumseth, states that Angela Drainville was terminated at the end of her six month probationary period “based on the advice and recomm...
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Dec 28th, 2012
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Letter to the Barrie Examiner December 27, 2012How can we save our best farmland?Is this not a question we should be asking of our elected representatives at all levels? Let us consider the following.According to the Ontario Farmland Trust, we have already lost 18% of our prime farmland to urbanizati...
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Dec 27th, 2012
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By Brad Pritchard Simcoe.com Dec 21, 2012 NEW TECUMSETH - New Tecumseth has filed its response to a lawsuit filed in November by a former town employee seeking $750,000 in damages over a series of alleged actions and events that led to her termination in October. ...
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Dec 27th, 2012
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By Brad Pritchard Simcoe.com Dec 20, 2012  ESSA – At the edge of Essa farmer Perry Turnbull’s property sits a tree-lined swamp full of blueberry bushes and many other kinds of plant life.  The picturesque landscape attracts a wide range of wildlife, like deer, rabbits, geese and other bir...
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Dec 21st, 2012
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Why cold Canada is becoming a hot spot for data centresBy JONATHAN STOLLER Globe and Mail Dec. 20 2012Canadian winters are challenging for some, but they have their advantages. In addition to producing the world’s best hockey players, Canada has become host to a growing number of data centres that ta...