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Dec 12th, 2022
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‘Once again you are not hearing the cacophony of voices begging you to cancel Bill 23,’ says letter writer Letter to the Editor Dec 9, 2022 Kevin Lamb for BarrieToday Mr. Ford, you always boast you listen to the people. Please tell me how many people and organizations, clubs, etc., demand...
Dec 12th, 2022
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‘If we lose it, it will not come back,’ says Bob Bowles; Oro Moraine about 35,000 acres in size, extending 21 kilometres from Orillia west to Highway 400 past Craighurst from OrilliaToday,Bob Bruton, Dec11,2022 A crash course on the Oro Moraine’s history, and its precarious future, were t...
Dec 10th, 2022
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‘We are counting on you to protect the little bit of wildlife and habitat we have remaining in southern Ontario,’ groups tell federal minister Letter to the Editor,CollingwoodToday Dec 9 2022 Dear Minister Guilbeault, As Canada hosts an international conference on biodiversity, we thought...
Dec 10th, 2022
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‘This is not an ecologically sound bill,’ says mayor; City is calling on MPP Jill Dunlop to come to council to explain ‘logic and rationale’ behind Bill 23 Greg McGrath-Goudie Dec9 2022 Orillia’s city council has joined a growing number of Ontario municipalities that are speak...
Dec 9th, 2022
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‘Doug Ford, man of the people,’ is a lie – just as his promise to protect the Greenbelt was a lie,’ letter writer laments Letter to the Editor, from OrilliaMatters, Dec 6, 2022 Photo: Maija Hoggett/TimminsToday What happened to ‘For the People?’Five years after Ford took...
Dec 9th, 2022
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‘Community members … will no longer be able to participate in or challenge decisions that affect their own neighbourhoods,’ warns letter writer Letter to the Editor from MidlandToday, Nov 15, 2022 Map showing Ontario’s Greenbelt.Image courtesy of the Greenbelt Foundation The F...
Dec 8th, 2022
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‘Democracy is being bled to death,’ says letter writer Letter to the Editor, Nov 18, 2022 From OrilliaMatters Stock photo:Donatello Trisolino via Pexels Probably most Ontarians, especially those near the GTA, know about Bill 23 and are aware that it will remove any input on development by...
Dec 8th, 2022
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‘All climate change predictions show that we need to put more, not fewer, resources into our cities’ infrastructure to head off the worst effects from extreme weather conditions,’ says Living Green Barrie official Letter to the Editor, BarrieToday Dec 7, 2022  file photo.Natasha Philpott/...
Dec 7th, 2022
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Changes will reduce protection for smaller wetlands and critical habitat, writes Bob Bowles Robert (Bob) Bowles From Simcoe.com Sunday, December 4, 2022 I was nine in October 1954, when Hurricane Hazel hit the Carolinas hard, then drove north into Toronto with three days of high winds and flooding. I...
Dec 7th, 2022
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Majority of public wants government to protect farmlands, significant wetlands, greenspace, lakes and rivers and, mostly, human health, letter writer says Letter to the Editor Dec 2, 2022 File photo.Natasha Philpott/BradfordToday What ever happened to public consultation? No government official has r...