By AWARE Simcoe
In Adjala-Tosorontio
Dec 28th, 2022
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Bill is part of province’s plan to build 1.5 million homes in 10 years From CBC News Protesters rallied against Bill 23 in Orillia on Nov. 20.Connor Earl Photo Allison Jones · The Canadian Press · Posted: Nov 28, 2022 12:29 PM ET Ontario passed a housing bill Monday intended to spur deve...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Bradford West Gwillimbury
Dec 28th, 2022
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‘It is time for municipalities to take a united stand against Premier Ford’s plan for environmental destruction and move toward saving the Greenbelt,’ reader says From Bradford today, Dec 27 2022, Stock image of a Wigeon Drake duck There is a lot of hand clapping, handshaking and pa...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Agencies
Dec 28th, 2022
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‘What bleak future would shake this premier enough to turn the nightmare into a miracle?’ wonders local Green party official, harkening parallels to Dickens. Premier Doug Ford speaks during a media conference in Orillia in August 2020. | Nathan Taylor/OrilliaMatters file photo Brad Coccim...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Agencies
Dec 28th, 2022
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Critics say the changes will “completely undermine the protection of wetlands” while doing little for housing. By Noor JavedStaff Reporter,Toronto Star Sat., Dec. 24, 2022 photo Hartley Woodside The majority of sensitive wetlands in the Greater Toronto Area could lose environmental protection ...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
Dec 22nd, 2022
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I am sure if Premier Davis were alive he would be fighting alongside Ontarians against Ontario’s anti-environment Bill 23 and Greenbelt land grab. From the Toronto Star, By Sarah Harmer Contributor, Wed., Dec. 21, 2022 I grew up on the Niagara Escarpment, the backbone of southern Ontario’s Gre...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Barrie
Dec 21st, 2022
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The provincial government is taking control over the selection of the next chief justice of the Ontario Court of Justice using a process the judges say “will erode public confidence” in the courts, the Star has learned. From the Toronto Star By Jacques Gallant Courts and Justice Reporter, Dec. 15, 20...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Indigenous
Dec 20th, 2022
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Responding to the over-representation of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples in custody. Community and Justice Services professor Lance Triskle takes his Indigenous Justice class out to the Debwewin miinwaa Naaskodaadiwin Miikaans Truth and Reconciliation Trail at the Orillia Campus for a lesson. ...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Development
Dec 20th, 2022
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First Nation in northwestern Ontario gains promise that no logging company or lumber mill will touch trees from their land without their permission. From the Toronto Star By Marco Chown Oved Climate Change Reporter Fri., Dec. 2, 2022 For 20 years, they’ve blockaded and marched, gone to court a...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Development
Dec 20th, 2022
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‘We can anticipate where they will strike next,’ writes Gord Miller Gord Miller From Simcoe.com Monday, December 12, 2022 The battle to stop the removal of Greenbelt lands from their protected status is not over yet. Many still protest and call for a suspension and reversal of this decisi...
By AWARE Simcoe
In AWARE News Network
Dec 19th, 2022
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Jeff Monague offers holiday wishes for politicians, including Simcoe North MPP, who he noted ‘may have accidentally fallen into a vat of invisible ink’ Jeff Monague, an Ojibway elder and knowledge keeper, has some good wishes and advice for politicians. From OriliaMatters The season for g...
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