Signs are laid out and children’s shoes line the steps of the Spirit Catcher in downtown Barrie in memory of the 215 children whose bodies were found buried on the grounds of a residential school in Kamloops, B.C.Shawn Gibson/BarrieToday From Orillia Matters June 1 2021 By: Shawn Gibson ‘...
Coun. Cathy Keane, top centre, speaks Wednesday, May 26, 2021, during an Oro-Medonte council meeting. Screenshot From Orillia Matters May 28 2021 By: Letter to the Editor Council’s decision to fire the integrity commissioner is ‘even more alarming and shocking,’ says frustrated Oro-...
University of Alberta professors Michael Powell and William Shotyk discuss groundwater studies with Tiny Township By Kate Harries – AWARE News Network In an impassioned plea to Springwater Township Council – and, implicitly, to policy makers up to the federal level – Geologist Micha...
After this week’s ‘kangaroo court,’ frustrated Oro-Medonte citizen says election is needed to ‘clear out this den of deception’ From Orillia Matters May 27 2021 By: OrilliaMatters Staff What was actually resolved at (Wednesday’s) Council meeting? The May 26 Oro-Med...
The Friends of Simcoe Forests Inc (“FSF”) won a major court challenge against the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (“Minister”) in the ongoing dispute over locating a waste facility in the Freele County Forest. FSF had filed a challenge before the Ontario Divisional Court of the Minister’s d...
From Orillia Matters May 26 2021 By: Nathan Taylor ‘The good people of Oro-Medonte deserve and demand better from all of you,’ resident says before his microphone was cut off Oro-Medonte council voted Wednesday against reprimanding a member who was found by an integrity commissione...
Cathy Keane From Orillia Matters May 25 2021 By: Dave Dawson Citizen is calling on council to force resignation of Cathy Keane, saying Integrity Commissioner’s call for a reprimand ‘is wholly inadequate’ Oro-Medonte Township’s Integrity Commissioner (IC) is recommending a “formal re...
Bill French From the Springwater Citizens Forum May 24 2021 By Bill French There are multiple municipal drains throughout the township and many date back well over a century. They are intended to prevent flooding on some of the richest farmland in the Township especially in what I call the Minesing f...
‘There are no shades of grey on this. This is a matter of right versus wrong’ By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Two of Canada’s leading hydrogeologists appeared before Tiny Township Council last week to sound the alarm about the threat to the uniquely pristine groundwaters of North Simco...
University of Alberta professors William Powell and William Shotyk presented their groundwater study proposal to Tiny Township ‘This water I’m talking about is not just great water, it’s absolutely exceptional water,’ says university professor in asking township to collaborat...
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