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Tiny home housing homeless man in the woods torn down
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21This is how we deal with homelessness. Watch how bad things get as more and more people are forced into being homeless and this is the way our police deal with it.
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City to continue proactive approach targeting 'chronic problem properties'
OrilliaMatters 9We pay for our properties, we should be allowed to let them look however we want, this is ridiculous.
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Trumped: McDavid the hero as Canada beats U.S. in overtime
23He won, and then he threatened our country a bunch, and then taunted about winning this game and then his team lost. We are simply celebrating the win, during a time rife with uncomfortable political tensions, so I submit that YOU are the one who needs to get over this post.
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Over 4,000 tickets issued in Orillia as speed cameras nab fast drivers
OrilliaMatters 9It’s annoying when you see cops witness people run red lights, speed or break the law on the road and do nothing about it daily in this town but now there are cameras to catch people in areas that used to only ever be 40km for 7 hours a day during weekdays. We have a massive HQ for the OPP and significant police presence in this town but we consistently allow them to get away with not doing their job.
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Council hears neighbour's concerns about Bond St. townhome plan
OrilliaMatters 12Orillia residents are ridiculous. They protest whenever someone wants to build anything over 3 stories, they protest anytime annexing surrounding townships land is brought up, cost of housing is getting to be vastly unaffordable, where do you people expect people to live? The homeless population is going to skyrocket, probably only a matter of time before they protest for that to be illegal. A town that only the wealthy can afford to live in but still requires the poor people to function…
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'Very risky': Lack of terminal leaves local bus riders out in the cold
OrilliaMatters 18Why the city never decided to turn the old train station into a bus depot for the city buses I will never understand. It’s out of the way of the main vein of downtown, so less congestion especially during the peak times, but still close enough to be reasonable and it has plenty of room.
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Severn family left without heat for 14 days due to furnace fiasco
OrilliaMatters 16Why are they so overwhelmed, we get rough winters here every year, could they not anticipate this and hire the necessary amount of staff to help manage this busy period, and allocate hours to the necessary companies? Or is this another Covid casualty business where they realized how much work they could make a smaller team do and never bothered hiring more people once things settled because the shareholders make more at the ends of the day, I’ve seen plenty of that the last few years.
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COLUMN: Canadians have weapons in this trade war with Trump
OrilliaMatters 9Claiming that people who call out Trump’s stupidity and ridiculous policies have a “derangement syndrome” is such an easy way to gaslight people into thinking Trump’s not the worst president to ever exist. BE honest with yourself it’s barely a year in and things are going crazier than ever down south, and only looking to get worse.
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Local mayor says recycling pickup changes 'very disappointing'
OrilliaMatters 12I guarantee if recycling and garbage continue to not be picked up, it’s only a matter of time before people start dumping their waste wherever they can find. Get ready for a very trashy Ontario if this continues.
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Bill 33 risks making education 'privilege for the few,' warns Lakehead student union
OrilliaMatters 4Well, die hard conservatives, does this make you happy? Do you want uneducated youth? When you put ford in office you made this happen.
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COLUMN: Are we raising a generation afraid to fail? Work ethic still matters
OrilliaMatters 5When even working hard and extra hours still leaves many of our younger generations unable to foresee ever affording a home, or even luxuries such as regular vacations, it’s no wonder so many are settling for doing the bare minimum. When people have no reward to work towards any longer what’s the point in trying, it’s not surprising really.
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Speed cameras and more speed radar signs coming to Orillia streets
OrilliaMatters 2Speed limits are too slow, these are a waste of taxpayers money, the small speed limits should be raised, not heavily enforced.
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Orillia mayor, city councillors getting cost-of-living raise
OrilliaMatters 6Unfortunately not everyone receives one, I’d certainly love the option to vote on if I got to have mine!
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Ford muses about allowing more malls to open on Family Day
OrilliaMatters 6This article is hilarious, it really highlights ford’s consideration for what his constituents truly want as well as pointing out his intelligence level simply by using his own ridiculous quotes.
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Trumped: McDavid the hero as Canada beats U.S. in overtime
6People are downvoting this comment which is simply stating a undisputable fact, just goes to show that people simply like to troll here, probably an indication of some of where the more ridiculous comments come from.
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Orillia speed cameras issued over 12,000 tickets in four months
OrilliaMatters 6When areas that historically were only ever 40 km/ for the small periods at the beginning and end of school days or that never were at all (fittons used to be 50KM/hr with no reduced speed even during school) are suddenly 40Km all hours of the day then yes it begins to feel like a cash grab and a trap. Having to suddenly reduce your speed from the 50km/hr surrounding roads in these areas at all hours was hard to remember to do after years of regular speed limits, and it felt unnecessary when there was no reported pedestrians struck in those areas at any time, let alone during the busy school rush hours.
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Annexation means much higher taxes for Barrie Country Club
OrilliaMatters 5You’re not wrong, but let’s be honest, money is all that’s important to everyone nowadays. Greed and capitalism is destroying the world and everyone’s futures. We’ve ended up with this many billionaires while hard working people starve and freeze because getting more money is apparently all that’s supposed to matter to us.
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'It's horrific:' Abandoned cats flood shelters, creating 'crisis'
OrilliaMatters 3Private equity firms have been buying up vet offices and jacking prices for a while now, just wait and see how bad it gets a decade from now. These are the same companies that buy up all the housing and then rent it out at ridiculous prices, which people are forced to pay because they control the majority of the rental market. Welcome to the capitalist future of the world, you’ll own nothing and be happy about it or else.
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COLUMN: Should Orillia just say no to boundary expansion?
OrilliaMatters 4Build up? Good luck in Orillia, some of the biggest most vocal NIMBY groups in the country seem to live here
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Uncertainty around tariffs 'a dark cloud' over real estate market
OrilliaMatters 1Many youth are coming to accept they will never own a home in todays society.
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