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By Jay Gutteridge Simcoe.com April 22 2010The numbers don’t lie: there’s a lot of building going on in Bradford West Gwillimbury.The town received more than $1.2 million in building and septic permit fees last year, a report to town council from chief building official Jack Tosta states.The report, m...
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By Rick Vanderlinde Simcoe.com April 20 2010INNISFIL —Mayor Brian Jackson has pleaded guilty to threatening Coun. Bill Pring with bodily harm. Mr. Justice Jon-Jo Douglas gave Jackson an absolute discharge in a Bradford courtroom Tuesday following the guilty plea. The Crown attorney’s office and Jacks...
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By Janyce MacGregor CBC NewsWright Tech/Green Rite Solutions have got back to me with a response. Here is their release, verbatim:Wright Tech Systems, Gillani and Jaffer; Setting the record Straight “We never had any financial dealings with Gillani or Jaffer” – Jim Wright, Chairman ...
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By Maija Hoggett Simcoe.com April 13 2010NEW TECUMSETH – A New Tecumseth councillor is asking for changes to the membership of a Simcoe County conservation authority subcommittee.New Tecumseth Coun. Dennis Egan said Essa Mayor David Guergis and Oro-Medonte Mayor Harry Hughes sitting on the seve...
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by Kevin Donovan Toronto Star April 16 2010 Helena Guergis touted a green technology company to Simcoe County officials while her husband Rahim Jaffer and businessman Nazim Gillani were involved in a plan to take the firm public in a $1 billion deal. Guergis wrote a letter last September to the top m...
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Letter on Simcoe.comRe: Town bill authorized after debate, Innisfil JournalApril 8. Lets get this straight. The Cortel Group of developers donates a piece of land (adjacent to other land they own) to The Royal Victoria Hospital supposedly for a future hospital and the Town of Innisfil gets stuck payi...
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New Tecumseth Online April 13 2010New Tecumseth Ward 4 councillor Dennis Egan last night questioned why the mayor of Essa Township and Oro Medonte were appointed to a Simcoe County council sub-committee that will “research, review and report on the roles and responsibilities of the Conservation...
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By DOUGLAS GLYNN By Douglas Glynn Midland Free Press April 15 2010As of September 2009, Simcoe County had spent upwards of $60,000 on legal fees in the dispute over access to the calibrated computer model (Modflow) that was relied on to grant the certificate of approval for dump Site 41, a county off...
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By DOUGLAS GLYNN Orillia Packet and Times April 8 2010 A letter sent to the Site 41 community monitoring committee (CMC) suggests Simcoe County spent more than $112,000 on legal fees in a 20-month period in the battle over public access to the computer model (Modflow) of the hydrogeology at the mothb...
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Orangeville Citizen April 1 2010 — Letter — I noticed in our newspaper that Adjala-Tosorontio Councillor Jack Jordan would like a meeting with the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority to clear up muddy waters around fill in the township. It is good to have dialogue to resolve any con...