'Heart and soul' of Orillia Home Hardware set to greet new chapter
30A feel good story where everyone benefitted from the kindness and empathy of others. Congratulations to the retiring gentleman and well done, Orillia Home Hardware.
- Carleton
Almost 100 Orillia employees make this year's Sunshine List
28Some pretty eye-watering numbers...thank you for the perspective. It is ridiculous that the government hasn't adjusted the $100,000 threshold from 30 years ago. What is really shocking is the level of upper management in some of these places....really Georgian College, how many VP's do you need??? Yet you close the Orillia campus before cutting the fat at the top. Shame on you!!!
1- DLBH
Council to consider reimagined Champlain Monument on Monday
27Although I would like to see the monument replaced in some form, I think there are many better things to spend almost $1 million on.
1- Shakeyw
Council to consider reimagined Champlain Monument on Monday
27Wow almost a million bucks to put back a statue. I can think of a lot more important things we could be spending that money on.
1- Derick.Lehmann
'Huge loss': Craighurst school house to be demolished this week
22I am truly disappointed in the developers in Craighurst. They had an opportunity to preserve some of Craighurst's history. The old schoolhouse was built a 140 years ago, by the community of the day on donated lands. The advertisments for Craighurst Crossing talk about small town charm. What charm will remain if they replace an historical build with a strip mall and a Tim Hortons.
5- Linda2
'Irrelevant': Ford’s BYOB push appears to fall flat in Orillia
17BAD! BAD! IDEA!
8- lashlarue
Council to consider reimagined Champlain Monument on Monday
25Putting up a wall like that is inviting graffiti. Plus the visual of indigenous on one side of a wall and the white man on the other doesn't really tie in with reconciliation now does it??
- Penny Kerr
Council to consider reimagined Champlain Monument on Monday
9This is exciting and positive news! Love the new design. Small-minded Orillians will promote vandalism, but maybe cameras and Park security would help. Give the missionary sculpture to Ste. Marie Among the Hurons (or Martyr's Shrine) and they can display it appropriately.
16- David Hawke
'Irrelevant': Ford’s BYOB push appears to fall flat in Orillia
9Naive to think that this doesn't already occur at our parks, especially in the summer and baseball diamonds in adult leagues, ect. They might as well make it legal.
15- T69
'Irrelevant': Ford’s BYOB push appears to fall flat in Orillia
18Bad idea. Just because it already occurs doesn't mean it should be legal. Dumb reason
6- imthinking
'Huge loss': Craighurst school house to be demolished this week
6“You might miss what’s ahead of you if you keep concentrating on what’s in the rear view mirror."
17- Wondering Why
Council to consider reimagined Champlain Monument on Monday
21Waiting for the "put it back, it shouldn't have been removed" crowd to flood in.Obviously, the money is way too much. And why is there a wall separating everything? Talk about reconciliation while we are putting literal walls between the different parts of the monument. You can have a simple concrete pad & put all of the pieces in their own space, but together. This would be accompanied by some kind of plaque or display, working in consultation with Rama (which it is embarrassing that they have experienced racism, hatred etc) and other Indigenous groups to find a common story that represents everyone's view. Heck, even one about how the statue, not even the man it represents, was in the background for so many of Orillia's historical moments.But this is Orillia, where the residents are ignored for big legacy projects by the majority of council, past & present.
2- Danny Galea
Proposed ban on unnecessary pet surgeries 'a long time coming'
4Then why wouldn’t spaying and neutering be classed as unnecessary surgeries to a pet since they are also done for our benefit not theirs??
18- Wondering Why
'It's ridiculous': Rising fuel prices a pain at the pumps for locals
11It’s insane, caused by an insane US president.
11- Stadius Karsche
Council to consider reimagined Champlain Monument on Monday
18I guess with strong mayor powers, it doesn’t sound like the mayor will listen to the other councillors OR the public. It’s a one man show, and a million dollar waste.
4- Dennis Woodman
Almost 100 Orillia employees make this year's Sunshine List
18So put everyone back to a 1996 wage in a 2026 world? Hey, while you’re at it, tell inflation to stay at zero for 30 years.
3- Carleton
'Irrelevant': Ford’s BYOB push appears to fall flat in Orillia
16All of the items mentioned in Doug Coopers statement indicate it is a very bad idea to open the consumption of liquor to these events. For some reason Doug Ford is obsessed with drinking alcohol. All it does is make this province unsafe - drinking and driving, drinking and fighting, drinking and gambling. These will all happen if Orillia goes ahead with the concept of open drinking of alcohol.
4- Holly Levinter
Almost 100 Orillia employees make this year's Sunshine List
9Put them all down to a 50k wage and see how fast things change. $40.5B on their wages is sickening.
11- jkirk2020
'It's ridiculous': Rising fuel prices a pain at the pumps for locals
8Trump and Netanyahu.
11- Onlooker
'It's ridiculous': Rising fuel prices a pain at the pumps for locals
13Hmmmm.I wonder what the price at the pumps would be if say we had no Carbon taxes, no clean fuel regulations (hidden carbon tax) and HST?I wonder how wealthy our country would be if we exported oil as the country with the fourth largest reserves (UAE and Saudis come to mind)?I wonder why we would have the second highest unemployment rate in the G7?There has to be a common denominator here. Can't put my finger on it. Hmmmm
6- WFO
