Suitors line up with offers for Orillia's Champlain Monument
16Let it go. Orillia doesn't need division right now.
35- Matt Douris
Suitors line up with offers for Orillia's Champlain Monument
13Not all those people live next door to a First Nations community, where the statue was accompanied by cannons pointed at them. Just let the thing go. Stop holding on to something that is essentially a background in everyone's mental picture of the past & stop using it as some cancel culture battle cry.
37- Danny Galea
Suitors line up with offers for Orillia's Champlain Monument
33Isn't it interesting all the different people around Canada that recognize the importance of our Champlain Statue except for some of the yahoo's at City hall who have no backbone and apparently no sense of history preservation and don't seem to appreciate the art of it all.
10- Polo
Suitors line up with offers for Orillia's Champlain Monument
33If the citizens of Orillia and environs allow this great commemorative monument to be removed from the area to another community ex Ontario, the local community will have lost an absolute treasure.
7- Diehler
Suitors line up with offers for Orillia's Champlain Monument
28No, never let it go. Put it back on display and give it the prominence and presence it deserves as a remarkable piece of art and the recognition of one of the great figures in our history.
8- What?
Council to discuss Lakehead land, wild meat and slower speed limits
20How many times are they going to debate a 40 speed limit? Just say NO!
14- Dennis Woodman
Champlain debate goes national, 'As it should,' says councillor
15It pains me to say it, but I agree with Polievre on this one.
17- usr_715377
Suitors line up with offers for Orillia's Champlain Monument
24Interesting that the Wendats from Quebec came to Orillia & declared that the Champlain Monument that had graced our Couchiching Park for 60 years had to be removed. Now Quebec is saying let us have this beautiful bronze sculpture if Orillia does not want it. The majority of Orillia citizens truly desire to see our Champlain Monument back in our Park. It is very sad that Champlain has been removed yet again. Please let us all admire this beautiful bronze work of art and the history it provides. No good comes from hiding him away.
7- janet maconachie
Pivotal city decision on future of OSMH, Lakehead plans deferred
16Let's not turn this incredible opportunity into a potential loss of a new hospital.Smith, it seems, has happily made this an election issue. That is such as shame. I do hope McIsaac, Smith and Cipolla's good friend Doug Ford doesn't just pull the plug on Orillia. Because Smith is known for her Poilievre-type slogans, she will keep repeating about the 'millions of dollars' this could cost tax payers. Let's not fall for that. Keep some perspective. There is no budget line at the City that depends on this $10 million. And the $10 million represents $645 for each of the 15,400 Orillia tax accounts. Nobody is losing millions. Not the residents. And not the City.
14- Magiccat
Suitors line up with offers for Orillia's Champlain Monument
25Only in Mariposa could something revered for so long could be undermined by some curious and dubious reasons. Then what? On to the next piece of society that is now judged offensive by some? Imagine how hard people worked together to get and erect the statue only to have people almost a hundred years after reinterpret both the art and the history.
3- Carleton
Suitors line up with offers for Orillia's Champlain Monument
13Good. It needs to go to where it’s appreciated.. unfortunately that’s not here.
14- Manderzz
Council to discuss Lakehead land, wild meat and slower speed limits
11They should have let the speed cameras stay. No one wants to lessen their speeds. It wouldn't bother me.
15- Sussan
Suitors line up with offers for Orillia's Champlain Monument
22Well....wouldn't Stephen Leacock be having fun with this story! Perhaps he could have written a bestseller about it. Imagine Orillia getting rid of this iconic statue!Then we can all go and stand in front of the plinth and admire its beauty and workmanship.
4- Vijo
Ontario raising speed limits on more highway sections across province
13Lunacy. Which has become the hallmark of the Ontario Conservative Party.
13- David Hawke
Champlain debate goes national, 'As it should,' says councillor
9Ms Durnford . Way out in left field. Remember that voters.
16- Trueblue
'This is a threat': Developer pursues huge resort in Gravenhurst
20MZOs are a Dictator Doug Ford methodology of overriding all environmental protection laws! Should be illegal but as Herr Dougie vacations in Muskoka with his Conservative MPP rep, this may be a done deal. I truly hope not, but this Province is in free fall from actual protection of our natural environment.
5- David Hawke
Orillia takes aim at rule changes to allow hunters to donate meat to food banks
16I have questions . Are we really thinking food insecure families are going g to eat wild game? Know how to cook it? Have proper refrigeration and cooking equipment? 5hat butchers really going to accept the responsibility and liability and absorb the the cost to process?
8- we'll see
Suitors line up with offers for Orillia's Champlain Monument
23Danny, a part of living here is that we DO all live in close proximity to our First Nations communities. That’s one of the many reasons where we live is amazing. It’s unfortunate that we live in a time that is more focused on strife than wonderful aspects that have happened in the past. I’m not one to minimize tragedy, but I’ll also recognize amazing moments. My only hope is we can remember history has both.
1- Manderzz
Champlain debate goes national, 'As it should,' says councillor
11He studied Indigenous family dynamics and noted in his writings that Indigenous people were far more obedient when separated from their children… That doesn’t exactly sound very “friendly”, now does it?
12- Krystal Brooks
Ontario raising speed limits on more highway sections across province
12Let's make dangerous roads even more of a nightmare.
11- Carleton
