Download AWARE Simcoe Comments on OMB Review Dec 16, 2016 or read below AWARE Simcoe is a citizens’ organization that advocates for protection of the environment, and to achieve healthy and sustainable communities. We monitor local governments for transparency and accountability. AWARE Simcoe w...
Letter to the Springwater News from Rick Webster In a previous edition of this newspaper I stated that the existing Springwater Council should take careful note of the Township’s lawyer, Barnet Kussner advice to council in 2014. He was clear in saying that while he could not think of a way to stop t...
From Anita Nickerson Fair Vote Canada Minister of Democratic Institutions Maryam Monsef has launched a national survey on democratic reform. It will close on December 30. A postcard with the URL for the survey has been sent to 13 million homes now! On Thursday December 1, the all-party committee on e...
By Ian Burns Midland Mirror MIDLAND – The next municipal election is nearly two years away, but Midland council is beginning to look at possibilities for the future – including ranked ballots and the end of the ward system. Councillors considered a staff report on elections at Monday’s general ...
Big land developers hire high-priced lawyers to pave the way for the paving of more farmland — and more monster homes By MARTIN REGG COHN Toronto Star If at first you fail, reform, reform again. For the third time since taking power, the Liberals are trying to rein in an all-powerful force that has r...
Updated AWARE Network News The Ontario Municipal Board hearing into the bonus Chiarelli population allocations to be deployed in Springwater came to an abrupt end today, after Simcoe County lawyers presented a letter detailing an agreement reached with the Township of Springwater. They noted that nei...
By Bob Bruton Barrie Examiner SPRINGWATER TWP. – Clarification of local controls on future Midhurst development has led to an agreement between the township and Simcoe County council. The two levels of government had been at odds after the county announced earlier this month it had reached a de...
from Council of Canadians Jose Bove, a Member of the European Parliament and critic of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), is now allowed to stay in Canada for seven days, but questions remain about why he was detained entry into the country and forced to miss...
New Tecumseth Free Press A petition signed by approximately 370 New Tecumseth residents asking council to review and redraw, if required, the ward boundaries in time for any proposed changes to be implemented for the October 22, 2018 municipal elections, was the impetus that will trigger the process ...
News release from AWARE Simcoe Simcoe County should not be acting as an agent for a developer in pursuing a costs award, a spokesperson for AWARE Simcoe says. “AWARE Simcoe believes it is totally inappropriate for County lawyer Marshall Green to be representing both the County and Tecumseth Estates i...
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