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By AWARE Simcoe
In AWARE News Network
Dec 8th, 2022
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No matter which explanation is offered, Steven Clark has shown himself unfit for this portfolio and ought to resign. By Steven Parish, Contributor From the St. Catherines Standard Fri., Dec. 2, 2022 photo: David Hawke I was involved in municipal politics in the GTA for 28 years, 23 of which I served ...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Agriculture
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...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Agriculture
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/...
By AWARE Simcoe
In AWARE News Network
Dec 8th, 2022
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Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie and other municipal leaders said Ontario’s new law will force them to raise property taxes to pay for infrastructure that supports new housing Canadian Press, OrilliaMatters photo:Daniel Caudle BRAMPTON, Ont. — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is telling the mayor of M...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Environment
Dec 8th, 2022
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Proposed changes will jeopardize goal to protect lives and properties from natural hazards: NVCA Alliston Herald Thursday, November 3, The Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) has released a statement in response to Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act, tabled in the Ontario legislatu...
By AWARE Simcoe
In AWARE News Network
Dec 7th, 2022
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‘How are we to respect the laws you create when you can’t?’ asks local elder, who says Ford government has turned its back on its ‘duty to consult’ with First Nations Jeff Monague CollingwoodToday, Dec 6, 2022 Every morning for what seemed like decades, Alfred King would rise ...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
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...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Bradford West Gwillimbury
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...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Orillia
Dec 7th, 2022
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Annual count centres on Bass Lake area BarrieToday Staff Dec 4, 2022 NEWS RELEASE ORILLIA NATURALISTS’ CLUB ************************* The Orillia Christmas Bird Count is coming up for Saturday, Dec. 17. Since 1981 members and friends of the Orillia Naturalists’ Club have been documenting a sampling o...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Agriculture
Dec 6th, 2022
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If province continues down this path, ‘the environment is in imminent danger of calamity,’ says letter writer Simcoe North MPP Jill Dunlop and Premier Doug Ford are shown in this file photo. | Nathan Taylor/OrilliaMatters Dec 4 2022. Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act, mirrors a lon...