Stock photo | Burst via Pexels From OrilliaMatters, May 26, 2022 A Letter to the Editor This letter is in response to a letter from Doug Lewis regarding candidates debates, published May 24. As one of the co-ordinators for the Just Recovery Simcoe candidates digital debates held across all Simcoe rid...
Stock image | Photo by Skitterphoto via Pexels From OrilliaMatters, May 26, 2022 A Letter to the Editor The following letter is in response to a letter, published May 24, titled, ‘Value of issue-driven debates is debatable.’ Is this the trend we want to set? As someone who helped organize...
GREEN ORILLIA PROVINCIAL ELECTION 2022 NEWSLETTER We have prepared a special provincial election newsletter including links to recordings of the debates and all candidates meetings, voter information, and we have noted which candidates have reached out to us to offer their support for our initiatives...
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...
Stock photo | Donatello Trisolino via Pexels From OrilliaMatters, May 25, 2022 A Letter to the Editor With all due respect to Doug Lewis and other Progressive Conservatives who justify their/their candidates’ non-attendance at many all candidates meetings, the failure to show up “because it doesn’t f...
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...
Accountability Assembly moderator and Empower Simcoe chief executive officer Claudine Cousins (right), with candidates Beverley Patchell, Elyse Robinson and Jeff Lehman during the event held at Grace United Church May 11. Incumbent Doug Downey declined an invitation to attend. | Shawn Gibson/BarrieTo...
Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leader Doug Ford, New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath, Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca and Green Leader Mike Schreiner during the Ontario leaders’ debate. | FRANK GUNN / THE CANADIAN PRESS From the Toronto Star, May 20, 2022 By Star Editorial Board ...
There is a large for-profit health care industry banging at our door. If we don’t provide the staffing, provide the funding in our public system, there is no choice but to privatize, because people still need care. We must tell Ford and the for-profit health care industry that our public health...
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