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'Unreasonable' parking restrictions hamper Orillia food bank patrons
OrilliaMatters
3If you cannot afford to buy food, how do you afford to own and operate a vehicle? Realign your priorities.
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Council to more than double budget for transit electrification study
OrilliaMatters 17This is a waste of Orillia's scarce taxpayer dollars. Do we not have staff that could do this analysis without hiring an outside consulting firm? Please tell me that our employees have the requisite knowledge and skills to research this and report to Council.
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COLUMN: Timing of province's $200 cheques seems suspect
OrilliaMatters 6All media should report the truth. Suspicion is not quality information.
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'Chilling': Ford vows to hold JPs and judges 'accountable' for decisions
OrilliaMatters 11We must protect society from Repeat Offenders; people on probation after having been found guilty of a crime and allegedly commit a crime. First offenders of an indictable offense should be required to convince a justice of the reasonableness of being released. If the system errors, the person has a right to legal recourse.
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'Really bad decision': City, developer ink deal on Orchard Point condo
OrilliaMatters 6Environmentalists object to urban sprawl. If municipal governments choose intensification there is local push back. The previous government under the Liberals championed intensification. Mayor Clarke was a follower and the outcome is what it is.
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COLUMN: Timing of province's $200 cheques seems suspect
OrilliaMatters 4The media should report the facts and permit the reader to analyze the truth and draw their own conclusion.
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Should small towns pay for policing? This town doesn't think so
OrilliaMatters 2The safety of any community is the paramount municipal responsibility. If a community is not protected by an adequately funded police service then no resident, business owner, or visitor is safe. Policing costs are small compared to the cost that a town without public safety will pay if lawless thugs control the way of life we enjoy.
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Sparks expected to fly over STRs at Oro-Medonte council meeting
OrilliaMatters 1It is troubling that some citizens are demanding that government control the assets of a private person. Municipal governments dictating to private homeowners what they are permitted to do with their properties. I would expect this in a Communist Regime , but not in a democracy such as Canada.
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Cellphone ban won’t address mental health, concentration: experts
OrilliaMatters 5It is an easy way for teachers: Board directive to leave their phone at home. Students who fail to do so may turn their phone in to the Principal. Failure to do so, Principal contacts parent to collect phone. Failure to do so, students sits in office til end of day and is permitted to return without the phone only when they are willing to comply with new policy.
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Internal docs show crushing gridlock ahead — even with Bradford Bypass
OrilliaMatters 3The critics tells us what we should not do. But they offer no solutions. Population growth due to immigration and reproduction are causing a demand for new housing development. This leads to increased labour and consequently travel to work. What is the Ford critics' solution?
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'Great man': Fayne Bullen remembered for helping build a better Orillia
OrilliaMatters 1Fayne Bullen had an uncanny ability to bring people together. He accomplished this by finding priorities that the majority supported. He was an amazing contributor to making all of us better.
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'Hocus pocus and hops' on the menu Friday in downtown Orillia
OrilliaMatters 1Coldwater had a very similar "girls night out" two weeks ago. Orillians are learning from our neighbours to the west.
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