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Nov 3rd, 2020
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Gun range site at 1131 Concession 5, Ramara Township – Concerned Citizens photo By Michael Douglas Concerned Citizens of Ramara It is believed that Ramara Township is once again similarly handling the gun range situation as they feigned handling the large-scale soil dumping two years ago with t...
Nov 3rd, 2020
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Paul Bonwick Public inquiry recommends conflict-of-interest overhaul for municipal councillors CBC News A tangle of insider relationships among officials and family in the resort town of Collingwood, Ont., led to serious problems in two multimillion-dollar public contracts, a judge concluded today af...
Nov 2nd, 2020
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Plan for retirement community at east end of Elmvale Medical Innovation Advanced Manufacturing Park in Oro-Medonte Township and Elmvale Active Seniors Residence both given the go-ahead from the province By: Jessica Owen Barrie Today Two more local development projects have been granted a minister’s z...
Nov 2nd, 2020
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Justice Frank Marrocco releases report online today. Four people were at core of Collus sale, rec centre investment This is the first in a series of three reports on the Collingwood judicial inquiry, dealing with key findings made by the judge By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Four people – fo...
Nov 2nd, 2020
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Sample being collected from an area artesian well – AWARE Simcoe photo AWARE News Network A series of posts in the Friends of the Waverley Uplands Facebook group from September 19 to October 31 2020 details water issues being experienced by residents in the vicinity of the Teedon Pit in Waverle...
Oct 29th, 2020
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from  Just Recovery Simcoe Citizens around the world are calling for social justice, economic reform and preservation of nature, key strategies civilization needs to embrace in order to mitigate the worst impacts of the climate crisis we are already experiencing, while we plan our recovery from the p...
Oct 29th, 2020
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By Kate Harries Springwater News For the first time in 16 months, Springwater’s mayor has broken his silence and provided an account of what happened at the county warden’s charity golf tournament at Vespra Hills on June 26 2019 that led to his being charged with impaired and dangerous driving. The c...
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Oct 28th, 2020
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Lovers Creek Ravine From Change.org Residents of Painswick South District, specifically those on Loon Avenue, are outraged and saddened by a proposed townhome development being planned in their backyards at 521 Huronia Road, Barrie, backyards which back onto Lovers Creek Ravine (a provincially protec...
Oct 28th, 2020
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Futuristic rendition of high density development around the GO Train station at the centre of the Orbit. From Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition Innisfil Council has endorsed the use of a Minister’s Zoning Order (MZO) to fast track the building of a GO train station, with 20,000 people in 22 – ...
Oct 27th, 2020
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Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda The Afro-descendant and Indigenous Garifuna community of Honduras continues to demand the safe return of the five members of their community abducted by armed men dressed in police and military uniforms in July From Peoples Dispatch October 26 marked the 100th day since...