Orillia moving to recycling carts, every-other-week collection
27Yes, the people of Orillia have been clamouring for the added convenience of a giant cart that won't fit anywhere and a 50% reduction in the pickup schedule!NOT.
4- Onlooker
Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)
16I don't support this. As much as this may bring bad memories to former residents and staff members, those buildings were historic. In addition, if the plan is to make a museum, one of the buildings could have been used for that purpose.
10- smalltownguy2017
Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)
15This mass demolition of historic buildings is so wrong on so many levels! Were the anti-Champlain monument folks also involved with this? Stinks the same. KEEP THE MAIN BUILDING INTACT! Learn from our collective mistakes and educate all. Oh, I know, let's get MPP Dunlop to champion for the protection of this historic site! Throw in a photo op for guaranteed success.
11- David Hawke
Orillia council delays decision on new Champlain statuary plan
11I can only support one direction for the Champlain Monument. BRING IT BACK THE WAY IT WAS. Any other direction does not get my support. Do not waste any of my tax dollars on any other made up solutions. If it cant be reinstalled in it's original condition then just destroy it and put it to rest.
13- Patrol
Orillia moving to recycling carts, every-other-week collection
23This should be interesting during the winter with the city's poor record of snow clearing.
1- retired optimist
Orillia council delays decision on new Champlain statuary plan
5For once, I agree with Mayor McIsaac. It is a delay tactic.
17- retired optimist
Orillia moving to recycling carts, every-other-week collection
4Says who? I don't wash mine.
18- Onlooker
Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)
22I didn't even know there was a plan to knock them all down.
- Onlooker
Orillia council delays decision on new Champlain statuary plan
11Why should Champlain be given a back seat. That’s no different than the indigenous complaining he was looking down on them. This is not reconciliation this is blatant reverse inequity.Champlain is famous…the other figures are complete unknowns…does not make sense.
10- Wondering Why
Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)
16these buildings looked in "livable" shape.....Why couldn't they house the houseless.
5- Krysa
Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)
12The comments on the board so far are bewildering. Historical buildings, perhaps. But ones that 1) caused pain to a lot of people who were held there against their will & 2) the majority of which had not been properly maintained & were in disrepair. Are we supposed to waste money fixing them to make them habitable for the homeless, especially with all the baggage they hold? This is the smart move, knock them down & repurpose the land using modern building techniques, whatever the buildings do."Erasing history does not make it disappear." What a grandiose statement for something so obvious. If it brings closure to former residents to not have to look at them & spending taxpayer money to keep them standing, why not? The history will still exist in the cemetery across the street.
9- Danny Galea
Orillia moving to recycling carts, every-other-week collection
17360L more than twice the size of a normal oil barrel! A big blue very unattractive object to deal with, while urban lots are increasingly being allowed to be smaller. If you close the lids the squirrels will have them perforated the first time you put a meat tray in it. Not to mention snow plows . The system wasn't broken before so Ford had to break it to get a contract for his buddy.
3- Keith Baker
Province looks to shrink Simcoe County council, give Warden more powers
16Any provincial appointment is suspect. None are based on merit but on Ford's self serving, ambitions regarding everything from his massive expenditures of self promotion, overly grand visions of his construction projects and ambitions, his consistent false promises, destruction of our safety networks and protections and his actions of dictatorship.
3- Holly Levinter
Province looks to shrink Simcoe County council, give Warden more powers
17Warden with “strong powers” being appointed by provincial government is very suspect.
1- Wondering Why
Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)
14I expect it will be sold off for development for the most part. Even the Ford government isn't stupid enough to waste prime waterfront land on a call centre.Most of us hope that the waterfront portions will remain in public hands for public use. Many of us fear Doug Ford will sell it cheap to his developer buddies. Speaking of which, whatever happened to the green belt inquiry?
4- Onlooker
Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)
13Wow. Listen to the people affected. Why are they historic? What part of it do we want to celebrate? Maybe because i have "only" been in Orillia for 20 years...but i see them as historically odious. Why do we need 40+ deteriorating buildings to remind us that its not okay to displace and abuse people?
5- no laughing matter
Survivors cheer as former HRC buildings come down (6 photos)
11For those of you who would like to keep these buildings ask yourself if you'd want to see them constantly if you had been abused in one of them. I'm thinking NO. Big talk from people who will never understand.
7- Penny Kerr
Orillia moving to recycling carts, every-other-week collection
12All your recycling materials should be clean
5- S Carpenter
Orillia council delays decision on new Champlain statuary plan
10design is awful, put them back no walls or interactive stuff, just big statues of times past. let the kids sit in front of them: not climb a wall separating them, that's almost going backward in thinking
6- HappyGuy
Orillia council delays decision on new Champlain statuary plan
12How about we put the million into the snow removal?
4- John R.
