Stock image | Photo by Pixabay via Pexels From BarrieToday, May 29, 2022 A Letter to the Editor The following letter is from Barrie resident Gwen Petreman on the importance of pollinators. The more I read about the incredibly important role pollinators play in the future existence of all of us, the ...
Four major parties are vying to lead Ontario in the June 2 election. | CITYNEWS/Craig Wadman From the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition By Margaret Prophet I often hear people say, “I’m not a political person.” I’m always baffled a little bit by that statement, though, because...
Stock image | Photo by picjumbo.com from Pexels From OrilliaMatters, May 24, 2022 A Letter to the Editor On Feb. 8, 2022, I sent a letter to Oro-Medonte Council regarding a Consent Application subject to an Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) inquiry that was eventually heard on April 5, 2022, by video heari...
By Jack Gibbons, Chair, Lake Simcoe Watch We asked the leaders of the province’s major parties if they support allowing municipalities and the province to levy development charges to recover 100% of the costs of servicing new developments and cleaning-up Lake Simcoe. Andrea Horwath (NDP) and Mike Sch...
Bessie and Joe Ditta say goodbye to their income property/workshop last week after the government expropriated the property for the building of the Bradford Bypass. From OrilliaMatters, May 24, 2022 By Natasha Philpott A Bradford couple says they feel “violated” and frustrated after their income prop...
Participants of a climate strike are shown in front of the Orillia City Centre. | Nathan Taylor/OrilliaMatters file photo From OrilliaMatters, May 22, 2022 As readers know, Sustainable Orillia has now, for over three years, been sharing tips and ideas on how to make our lives more sustainable here in...
Raymond Bowe/BarrieToday file photo From OrilliaMatters, May 21, 2022 By John Challis The following is a guest column by John Challis on behalf of Canadians for a Sustainable Society. ******************** Every day in Ontario, we lose 175 acres of farmland to urban development. With arable land maki...
Rally to save the Oro Moraine on May 24 at 1 pm...
We are passing on this important message from our friend Sleydo’, spokesperson of Gidimt’en Checkpoint and Wet’suwet’en land defender (also known as Molly Wickham). Please read, RSVP, and share widely. — Dear friends, allies and comrades, While we try to live out our daily lives and conduct cul...
From OrilliaMatters, May 18, 2022 A Letter to the Editor Something is fundamentally wrong when taxpayers have to take a township to court to obtain justice. Is there something fundamentally wrong in Oro-Medonte? You be the judge. Consider the plight of more than 1,000 people who live in an area known...
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