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Jun 1st, 2021
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Please sign and share the petition using this link: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3408 Petition e-3408 – Petitions Petition to the Government of Canada   Whereas: Indigenous peoples have rights and title to their traditional territories and have been stewar...
May 29th, 2021
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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-...
May 28th, 2021
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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...
May 27th, 2021
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  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...
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May 27th, 2021
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From Friends of the Earth May 26 2021 By: Erik Stolpmann May 26, 2021 (Ottawa) – For the first time in history, a judge has held a corporation liable for causing dangerous climate change. Today, as a result of legal action brought by Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie) together with 17,...
May 25th, 2021
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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...
Apr 6th, 2021
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David Crombie From the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation Join Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Heritage Champion and former Mayor of Toronto, David Crombie, for a new educational series of virtual talks focused on heritage, city planning, community involvement, education and the future of Toronto. In each ...
Mar 30th, 2021
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Province has major decisions to make News release from the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition In 2021 a great number of decisions could be made, and processes put in place, that affect Lake Simcoe’s health. The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and the Simcoe County Gre...
Mar 15th, 2021
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The Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly’s only Canadian home is in the Minesing Wetlands -Chris Evans photo ‘I was not aware that they were being protected for development, not from development’ AWARE News Network Eminent naturalist and Midhurst resident Chris Evans focuses on the Spring...
Mar 12th, 2021
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Tundra swans in flight -Wikipedia By Mike Crawley · CBC News Amazon will not put the largest retail warehouse in Canada on the site of a protected wetland in Pickering, CBC News has learned. An official with Amazon Canada said Friday that the company is no longer considering the Duffins Creek wetland...