By AWARE Simcoe
In Environment
May 27th, 2022
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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...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Agriculture
May 27th, 2022
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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...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Development
May 26th, 2022
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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...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Governance
May 26th, 2022
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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 AWARE Simcoe
In Barrie
May 26th, 2022
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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...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Governance
May 25th, 2022
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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...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Governance
May 25th, 2022
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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 ...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Governance
May 25th, 2022
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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...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
May 25th, 2022
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By Angela Bischoff, Director, Ontario Clean Air Alliance We asked the leaders of Ontario’s provincial parties if Ontario Power Generation (OPG) should create 16,000 person-years of employment at its Pickering Nuclear Generating Station site by immediately dismantling the station after it is shut down...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Barrie
May 25th, 2022
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From OrilliaMatters, May 21, 2022 A Letter to the Editor Tony Benn, a former British politician, once outlined the five questions you need to ask every politician or person who holds power. “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you acc...
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