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Call to ban data centres will not impact Protexxa facility: Caputo
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She has a decent point. It has already been approved and I'm sure contracts made. You guys always whine when money has to get spent, how much do you think the court battle will cost the city?
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This proposal should have been made BEFORE the city agreed to sell the land for a Data Centre! A genuine case of too little too late and gross incompetence. Nice to be considering the future when you ruined the present. Thank goodness there's an election.
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Gotta love it when the politician forgets their place. This reads to me like a "shut it and pay your taxes, peasants" Remember dear candidates and current council, you are nothing but our representation. Not our boss.
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Well considering it isn't her that seems to have the issues but people in the Sault.
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We’ve got some anti development characters on this current city council that we should be very worried about. Young people need jobs to stay in their home town. Young families need opportunity to build a life in SSM. These negative, not in my backyard socialists need to be replaced. We need a complete overhaul in ward 2, 3 and ward 5. There’s some very good candidates running. We need to scrutinize them very well and make some much needed replacements. We can’t afford not to take this very, very seriously. Good luck to all hard working taxpayers in this city.
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People are making way too much out of this data center.
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A motion in principal has been passed by the majority of council and now the one who didn’t get her way is crying. This is a massive display of poor leadership. Whitney is campaigning and trying to look like she cares. You can block me on Facebook from having a conversation with you Whitney, but not here.
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Good, now build more. I love the outrage from the boomers who want this city to stay as their personal retirement village. All their kids are leaving, and with not enough doctors to go around those boomers will live out their lives alone and miserable.
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She should have made her "point" when the sale of the land was being considered. Now she is just playing politics, trying to use this wedge issue to get herself re-elected. Her obvious doubletalk just caused that to expose her.She has got to go.
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City hall has been nothing but being sneaky and not informing us taxpayers, about that land sale was use for. And among other businesses they did that we taxpayers didn't want. They dont care about our disgusting roads, it time to vote all of them out in October.
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What is good for Orillia is access to healthcare. OSMH provides great healthcare for our community. The city needs to work with them not against them.
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Exactly this^^ thank you, sorry I was not informed last year due to lack of community engagement.. these concerns being heard now about future centers is a massive afterthought on a huge misstep made last year. How disappointing and unfair.
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Whitney is protecting the taxpayers .
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I cant believe shes still trying....
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We are all going to show up at the City Council meeting tomorrow right? I expect everyone that is against the data centres to be there right?
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Sadly, the City cannot make any meaningful plans to move forward without putting in the time, effort and, in many cases, monies to deal effectively with its present issues.
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I think you may be in for a big surprise. I think you will find out a lot more want this than don't
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Not afraid to say, as a fed up and frustrated ward 3 resident, you're getting my vote in this next election.
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@Derrick - At least I'm in good company. I commented on her Instagram that she was part of the problem, while others were trying to be part of the solution and I got blocked too! Back when she was running in 2022, Whitney commented about how she wanted to see unity on council, that she could work with people, but she was confident. She is actually only confrontational. Frankly, at the end of the day, it would have been nice if Durnford and the other candidates told everyone about this motion, but at face value, it looks like this is an agreeable proposal to all parties outside of Whitney and our mayor, who is hiding from any interviews or public comment. Like @JohnR said, what is good for Orillia is access to healthcare. Even though there are some comments on this board that state the opposite, OSMH needs space to grow. It is a building from 1910/1922 that has had renovations slapped on to try and keep it up to date, but Orillia can't grow with the current site.
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For the love of God I sure hope smith does not become Mayor!!!!!!
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