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Feb 19th, 2022
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This photograph shows a view toward the Inch Farm property, which is slated for development, from Uhthoff Line. | Nathan Taylor/OrilliaMatters From OrilliaMatters, February 17, 2022 A Letter to the Editor Many Orillia residents and previous contributors to OrilliaMatters have expressed grave concerns...
Feb 19th, 2022
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Holland Marsh | Bert Duclos Photo From OrilliaMatters, February 17, 2022 By Natasha Philpott The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada announced last week it will not revisit its decision to deny a Federal Impact Assessment designation for the Bradford Bypass. The request to review the decision was init...
Feb 19th, 2022
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Steel pipe to be used in the oil pipeline construction of the Canadian government’s Trans Mountain Expansion Project lies at a stockpile site in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada June 18, 2019. REUTERS/Dennis Owen This morning we received some huge news. First, the government-owned Trans Mountain co...
Feb 19th, 2022
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By Peter McCartney, Climate Campaigner, Wilderness Committee Feds quit funding pipeline as costs soar to $21.4B For the first time in a long time, I’ve got good news to share about Trans Mountain. Today, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the federal government will not pay for ballooning c...
Feb 15th, 2022
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Bob Bowles is an award-winning writer, artist, photographer and naturalist and the founder and co-ordinator of the Ontario master naturalist certificate program at Lakehead University.  | METROLAND FILE PHOTO From the Toronto Star, February 13, 2022 By Bob Bowles Continued COVID-19 restrictions and m...
Feb 14th, 2022
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From Return of the Native, December 30, 2021 By Kate Harries I requested this book for Christmas after hearing the author interviewed on CBC Radio’s The Current. Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs and the Improbable World of Peat is by Edward Struzik, a writer who focuses on a wide range of sci...
Feb 13th, 2022
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Premier Doug Ford was in Bradford last year to announce the official go-ahead for the Bradford Bypass. From OrilliaMatters, February 10, 2022 By OrilliaMatters Staff The federal government has declined, for a second time, to intervene on Ontario’s plans to build the Bradford Bypass, a proposed ...
Feb 13th, 2022
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Madeleine Fournier is a member of Stop Sprawl Orillia, a new group that is opposed to the potential expansion of the city’s boundary. From OrilliaMatters, February 10, 2022 By Nathan Taylor The possibility of the city expanding its boundary has led to the creation of a group that plans to fight...
Feb 13th, 2022
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The developments are proposed to happen near Highway 11. | Nathan Taylor/OrilliaMatters From OrilliaMatters, February 11, 2022 A Letter to the Editor For 75 years, The Orillia Fish and Game Conservation Club has worked to preserve our natural resources, our soils and minerals, our air, water, forests...
Feb 13th, 2022
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Green Party of Ontario Leader Mike Schreiner speaks at an event in Barrie in this file photo. | Raymond Bowe/BarrieToday From BarrieToday, February 10, 2022 By BarrieToday Staff The federal government has for a second time declined to intervene on Ontario’s plans to build the Bradford Bypass, a...