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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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All Simcoe County school buses cancelled today
OrilliaMatters 6@marc - those are the same people that don’t want to fund the education system to be able to pay for all those things.
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X still marks the spot for city, OPP amid controversy over platform
OrilliaMatters 5The city has a population of over 31000. Without counting how many of the 7000 X followers are fake and/or bot accounts - why would the city prioritize an American platform vulnerable to attack that only reaches about 1/5th of residents. It would be faster to have an auto filter or automated text line
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'Unreasonable' parking restrictions hamper Orillia food bank patrons
OrilliaMatters 1It seems like the solution to this isTo inundate the bylaw office with complaints. Make sure they have to be elsewhere.
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'Unacceptable': Tents line area street despite hike in homeless funding
OrilliaMatters 4If homeowners spent a few minutes every month advocating for changes and improvements to the rental laws and regulations it may help as well. With so many places being not pet friendly or having onerous credit checks (which make sense for small landlords but it’s ALWAYS the large corporates that are requiring it despite their backing being enough to buffer potential investment loss). Seems like an easy way to help - just do a bit of research and send some emails.
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City council will not push province to review Greenbelt Act
OrilliaMatters 6How DARE the city speak for its residents who individually would never get listened to by the province. This always stinks like “if we say something lord Doug will pull our funding” style politics.
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Ontario reaches $108.5-M deal with feds for school food program
OrilliaMatters 7That is an immediate and obvious way for those “haves” to pick on people seen as having less. Giving kids food - rich or poor - is morally acceptable to the majority of people. I’m sorry you feel differently.
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Ford visits storm-ravaged Orillia, vows better communication in future
OrilliaMatters 5Remember that time Jill went to bat for all the low income folks who can’t pay a deductible AND can’t necessarily replace food or lost income? Yeah. Me neither. Thanks for the not help.
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