COUNCIL SERIES: A city councillor is entering the mayoral race
26Can you just imagine what Orillia may become if Durnford gets Special Mayoral powers…the homeless homing capital of Ontario if not Canada and our taxes to afford it will put us all in the same boat.
13- WhoWhatWhy
COUNCIL SERIES: A city councillor is entering the mayoral race
23Durnford would cost us a fortune by prioritizing her social endeavours regardless of them being commendable or not.
14- WhoWhatWhy
COUNCIL SERIES: A city councillor is entering the mayoral race
25JL Durnford would be a good choice for mayor. During her time on council, she may not have always been on the same side philosophically as me, but she was committed and I am also confident she would not use the strong mayor powers to ram things through when she doesn't get her way. As for Ralph, another "hey I'm going to retire" to "I haven't decided yet." Luke Leatherdale also talks a big game for being a ghost on council. Hopefully, we in Ward 2 can find some better candidates to represent us in this forced ward system.
8- Danny Galea
COUNCIL SERIES: A city councillor is entering the mayoral race
20I really wish Tim Lauer would consider running for mayor, he has the experience and I find him totally committed to Orillia.
6- Marilyn J Clements
COUNCIL SERIES: A city councillor is entering the mayoral race
8Hopefully Mason Ainsworth runs again. He seemed like a bright kid.
18- Flax Seed
COUNCIL SERIES: A city councillor is entering the mayoral race
23We have some good people on Council. Whether I agree or not with any specific issue I respect that they give up their time and effort to serve us for a laughably small paycheck. The hate that some people direct toward them says more about those people than the members. I do wonder if a couple of guys who are even older than me might enjoy retirement and our thanks for their long and valued service.
1- Keith Baker
COUNCIL SERIES: Council has faced disappointments, challenges
19In this article the mayor said "building consensus" is in the best interest of the taxpayer. However, he chose to take on Strong Mayor Powers. Actually, he activated those powers. He made a phone call or sent a letter, or both, to the province to request those powers, in the guise of the ice storm but meant to give him the power to fire a hired CAO. These powers now negate consensus whenever he chooses.He also specifically decries the lack of investment in road and sidewalk work, but he vetoed Councillor Lauer's proposal - against a majority council 'yes' vote - to increase a fund annually in order to speed up backed-up work. Why? Because the mayor's goal was to end up with the lowest tax increase in Ontario, not to improve road and sidewalk work. For maybe an extra $5-$10/month/tax payer.A champion of consensus? A supporter of speedier road and sidewalk work? I think not.
3- Magiccat
‘Pattern of neglect’ on northern highways contributed to tragic crash: MPP
19Freight movement by road is also a huge issue. The dispersed network of trains is long gone.as is the short haul infrastructure that supplemented it. The trucking industry has cut costs in the name of competitiveness to the point that the job of truck driver is almost exclusively being filled by poor desperate people, often new to our country, instead of the proud professionals of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
1- Keith Baker
City pulls buses off roads, has not declared significant weather event
11The Mayor in Florida?Probably golfing at Mar-a-Lago.Sheesh.
9- R. Bard
City pulls buses off roads, has not declared significant weather event
15Maybe Chris Ferry will call Doug Ford and ask for Strong Fire Chief Powers 😄
5- Onlooker
Orillia's wings clipped in bid to become bird-friendly city
18We call ourselves bee friendly. A few years ago, a vigorous call went out to hang the city employee that made the mistake of thinking the order to "weed" the gardens at Hillcrest Park,meant pulling up milkweed. We held a vigil for the Monarchs affected. Ans just a few years later we backhoe the very same gardens, and plant grass. Take that bees and Monarchs! Other than the usual virtue signaling, why are we doing this now? When its, in effect, meaningless. Let's call us scorpion friendly while we're at it. Now that I can feel good about.
- Patrick Reid
City pulls buses off roads, has not declared significant weather event
13Orillia Mayor Don McIsaac is in Florida on vacation and us suckers are inconvenienced and sacrificing trying to keep our dollars out of the hostile USA. Nice.
5- RickyRivet
Ramara, Oro-Medonte declare 'significant weather event'
17On the other hand, it could become like "the boy who cried wolf". If nothing comes of the warnings and that happens often enough, people will start to ignore them.I'd rather have the warnings and (hopefully) have nothing happen, rather than not be warned and have something disastrous happen.
- Joanie C
COUNCIL SERIES: A city councillor is entering the mayoral race
14Mason Ainsworth had his time in Orillia municipal politics. He went as far as he could go. His run for mayor was filled with controversy. I'm not sure you'd find many people who would trust him after the shenanigans he pulled during his mayoral run.
2- SLewis72
COUNCIL SERIES: Ice storm, low taxes, helping vulnerable among council's accomplishments
16Since when is there "free" garbage collection? We pay for the tags thru taxes, and we only get 20 tags per year. Not enough for 26 weeks of garbage collection, so we either skip 6 weeks or have to buy the extra tags. If the City wants to have free garbage collection, allow us to put out 1 bag of garbage with no tag every 2 weeks.
- jascoldwell
Ramara, Oro-Medonte declare 'significant weather event'
7Starting to become immune to all these warnings especially when they end up not materializing in the area stated. A worrier could end up practically house bound!!🥶
8- WhoWhatWhy
COUNCIL SERIES: A city councillor is entering the mayoral race
10$43,000 for a part time job is laughable?
5- Dennis Woodman
COUNCIL SERIES: Ice storm, low taxes, helping vulnerable among council's accomplishments
12A question to Councillor Leatherdale - don't we still pay for garbage collection. Our tags?
3- Magiccat
COUNCIL SERIES: Council has faced disappointments, challenges
7Lauer states homelessness has baffled all levels of government, but Durnford wants to make that and other deemed social problems a priority in Orillia which means if other levels of government do not cough up, she will likely want to place costs on the backs of Orillia taxpayers. Not someone I would let loose with Special Mayoral Powers
8- WhoWhatWhy
Ontario college students 'reeling' in face of program cuts, layoffs
8Oh no! Not the Event Planning and Hotel Management programs!!! How ever will our country get by without these ever so important occupations? The OPSEU president gets paid 160k to get highly emotional over programs that don't really provide any value to society at large. Ontario sorely lacks health care professionals, but we'll shed tears for event planners. Isn't everyone tired of this dog and pony show by now?
6- FormerCircleKGuy
