By Peter Small Toronto Star March 14 2011 A prominent Wasaga Beach businesswoman says hundreds of GTA families could have their summer vacation plans ruined due to a sudden crackdown on local residents renting out illegal cottages. Mortgage broker Donna Mullen says two of her clients have recently re...
Jim Wilson MPP for Simcoe Grey will be Bill French’s guest on Politically Speaking Collingwood on Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. on Rogers TV Collingwood Cable 53. This is a live phone in show and you are invited to ask Mr. Wilson questions on Health, Education, the Economy and other matters of local o...
Shotyk proposal for Site 41 gets positive responses from county committeeBy Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe March 15 2011Simcoe County councillors responded warmly last week to a presentation by Dr. William Shotyk of the University of Heidelberg for a water innovation centre of excellence at Site 41 in Tin...
From the Council of Canadians March 10 2011Yesterday, Sylvia Jones, a Conservative Member of the Provincial Parliament in Ontario, rose at Queen’s Park and made this statement to the legislative assembly, “I rise today with concerns over comments the Liberal Minister of Natural Resources, Linda Jeffr...
By Frank Matys Mar 10, 2011 – 1:26 PM| 0 ORILLIA – For the past 18 years, Ian Brown relished his role as Orillia’s city manager. “Every day I looked forward to going to work, and I never knew what was going to happen that day,” Brown told Orillia Today. Neither did he ...
By Miriam King Bradford Times March 10 2011 It could be shaping up into a classic conflict between an agricultural operation, and its non-agrarian neighbours. Cericola Farms Ltd., a multi-million dollar chicken processing operation in Bradford West Gwillimbury, has an application posted on the Envir...
But Innisfil Creek is in need of help By Laurie Watt Simcoe.com March 11 2011 INNISFIL – Lake Simcoe’s getting healthier – but Innisfil Creek continues to be one of the worst creeks in the Nottawasaga River watershed. Updating Innisfil council on their 2011 levy requests, both the Lake Simcoe...
By BOB BRUTON Barrie Examiner March 11 2011 Growth and progress are crowding yet another south-Barrie neighbourhood. Its residents were out in force at a recent public meeting to oppose an application by Barrie Heritage Developments to build nearly 1,000 residential units along Yonge Street, north of...
By SCOTT DUNN, QMI AGENCY March 11 2011 A judges’ panel that heard a legal challenge to Ontario’s minimum 550- metre wind turbine tower buffer requirement said Thursday that the Ministry of the Environment followed the rules in setting it. Read more...
By SHARON WEATHERALL Midland Free Press March 11 2011 First Mate Mike Cass says ferries crossing the water from Christian Island to Cedar Point this year have encountered “varying ice” which depending on the weather conditions and temperature can take some time to cut through. Read more ...