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'Tireless advocate': Dunlop acclaimed as Simcoe North PC candidate
OrilliaMatters
22She’s a great yes-person to him. The provincial government could care less about what constituents actually want. Just looking to secure themselves.
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New legislation 'opens door' for landlords to kick out tenants
OrilliaMatters 21I know this may sound crazy - but it would be great for the government to divide the RTA to suit small landlords (1-4 units) to help protect little “Betty and Bill” trying to subsidize retirement etc from corporate landlords who consistently boost rent without fixing and improving units or the community. Just think how many corporate entities own property in Orillia - and mysteriously never contribute to town sports, charity, etc. Just pay the tax they have to and otherwise collect profit off hundreds or thousands of units. I am pro small landlord since they actually treat their units like investments. Corporations do not - and you can tell by the lack of care and upkeep when you cruise by most apartments and complex’s.
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BREAKING NEWS: Jill Dunlop appointed new education minister
OrilliaMatters 22Looks like avoiding your voting public at all costs (unless it’s a great photo op at a ribbon cutting) moves you up the Ford ladder.
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Orillia mayor, city councillors getting cost-of-living raise
OrilliaMatters 15“You don’t need your roads or sidewalks fixed but WE need a pay raise!” Give me a break. You all make more than a huge percentage of those you represent - people who don’t get to vote in their own raises.
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Mayor outlines updates on speed cameras, train station, housing
OrilliaMatters 13@john - corporate landlords aren’t adding to the community. They contribute land tax and that is it (and the reality is many of them pay less land tax than people owning single use homes on large lots). When did you see property management companies and corporate landlords sponsoring local sports teams? Sponsoring local events? Donating to local charity? Investing in improving the lives of tenants? Short answer. You don’t. The tenants fully add to the town - the large owners however contribute nothing but poorly designed buildings with a future of only necessary repairs with no upgrades.
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Mayor outlines updates on speed cameras, train station, housing
OrilliaMatters 17Oh please. Build more housing but don’t lobby the province to get us more schools built here. Every elementary is over capacity and the school board keeps pushing a new build off. No push for job infrastructure. Just build more corporately owned rental housing that takes from the community with minimal return.
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Teacher says Ford's education bill is creating 'culture of fear'
OrilliaMatters 7Yes. We would hate to use stats and info that comes from directly inside the schools. And we especially wouldn’t want to listen to parents of children who are seeing the problems and stating what would help. They don’t know what they’re talking about! Instead we should take stats from people who haven’t been inside a school in decades let alone ever worked in one with children because they clearly know what’s best!
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Orillia plows struggling to keep up with 'staggering' amount of snow
OrilliaMatters 16Now if only the city would coordinate so the sidewalk plows follow the road plows… that would prevent the massive snow boulders from the road being pushed onto the freshly cleared sidewalk to freeze into immovable objects.
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On top of all that snow, plow drivers facing 'abusive behaviour'
OrilliaMatters 10You’re right. We wouldn’t want people to stop and think a second before posting something angry. What an awful idea people exercise patience before posting, it’s for sure up to everyone to just accept online abuse because others are bored keyboard warriors.
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Sexual assaults, fraud and property crime on the rise: Orillia OPP
OrilliaMatters 7For those who didn’t read and got caught by the headline. Total crime was basically the same - it just shuffled departments. Don’t let the OPP (with media help) trick you into thinking they need more man power over last year.
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It's a 'mess': Developer builds 'road' through protected wetland
OrilliaMatters 14Is this the same company building on the inch farm property? The property with other significant environmental areas they “said” they’d protect. Perhaps we should be on top of them now over a honesty and accountability
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Ice cream bikes will be allowed in Orillia, but not in the downtown
OrilliaMatters 12The city creates a program with a ridiculously high license fee - and then will act shocked when no one takes them up on it. The small business brick and mortar ice cream shops are more threatened by corporate giants with soft serve like McDonald’s than bikes going around the food deserts that have been created around Orillia.
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Boutique owner calls downtown parking a 'barrier' amid lot closure
OrilliaMatters 8The city will let it rot until it sells it at a loss. Then the city will wait and buy it back after and act like they’re saving the day (see the train station fiasco)
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Oro-Medonte mayor avoids formal penalty for 'off-colour' comment
OrilliaMatters 8It sounds like the guy who couldn’t follow instructions or decorum should be on the hook to pay back the $7500 to the county though.
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BREAKING: City declares another significant weather event
OrilliaMatters 11Weird that you’re blaming those projects but not noting current council cancelling all spending except what goes to policing.Think this winter is bad. Wait til next year when they’re expected to “do more with less”
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City to continue proactive approach targeting 'chronic problem properties'
OrilliaMatters 4Most property related expenses are the landlords responsibility anyway. They may socially download the responsibility to tenants but legally it’s still their job to do yards, snow and make sure access to garbage service is available. The tenants pay for these things to be done with their rent, if the landlord hasn’t built that into their cost structure it isn’t the tenants problem. It’s time citizens get mad at the right people and institutions instead of just blaming their neighbour.
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City faces tough decisions at Wednesday budget meeting
OrilliaMatters 5Yes, scrap recycling for downtown businesses who already have nowhere to store it. That way we can have another fire like Peter street where the culprit used found cardboard to ignite a blaze that took down 11 businesses and a cornerstone building.
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'Extreme disappointment': Trustee slams delay in opening of new Orillia elementary school
OrilliaMatters 6So where is the city and the province now when they should be figuring out a larger solution. The province wants more growth, but they’re going to build something that was approved based on numbers over half a decade old? We need schools built looking forward. Not schools built for 6 years ago.
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Council asks developer to 'soften' 8-storey Barrie Road project
OrilliaMatters 6No one brought up the fact none of the area schools can handle more kids? I guess everyone moving in will be child free!
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COLUMN: 'Bench index' is measure of community health in Orillia
OrilliaMatters 7The city can’t even commit to benches at every bus stop. Why would they care about people sitting or laying elsewhere. City of Orillia really only looks out for and is concerned with the peoples on the lake and it’s image as a whole. All others get out of the way
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