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Over 4,000 tickets issued in Orillia as speed cameras nab fast drivers
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33Cue the “I was only going 4kms over” comments as they have been on Facebook posts. Funny though, you ask these people to prove what they are saying by posting a photo of the ticket at less than 10km over and they can’t. 🤦♂️
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'Disheartening': Retailers in Orillia facing bold, frequent thefts
OrilliaMatters 32Stealing, no matter what the value or item, is disgusting. Cops don’t want you to intervene, but when they finally do show up nothing gets done because our justice system is a revolving door without any penalties and these goons know it.
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Public urged to weigh in as Orillia faces $254M capital shortfall
OrilliaMatters 28Money saving ideas:- Tell the County to get their budget under control and that Orillia isn’t going to increase its contribution- Tell the OPP to get their budget under control. The money we pay does not equate to the “service” we receiveMoney generating idea:- Enforce your bylaws. I know of at least one short term rental property that just keeps getting insignificant warnings instead of any type of significant monetary penalty
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Councillor pushes to keep Brian Orser's name on Orillia arena
OrilliaMatters 28The question remains - who decided on the name change in the first place?!
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'A sad situation': Island Princess set to sail away from Orillia
OrilliaMatters 21Painting it John Deere green was probably the first mistake :-(
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Orillia could hire family doctors for city-run medical clinic
OrilliaMatters 19Maybe you didn’t read the article? It will in essence be the Provincial government that gets billed for the services. It’s an initial investment by municipal government. People complain about lousy access to service and then an idea is brought forward to improve it and there are still people complaining. Wild 🤦♂️
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'Atrocious' licensing fee puts several Orillia short-term rentals in peril
OrilliaMatters 22There is a missed opportunity here to show the opposite side of how some these Air BNBs have negative effects. A family member has to deal with 2 citiot real estate agents bought a home and now illegality house more than 12 people on a rotating basis in a small 2 bedroom home. The yard is constantly filled with garbage, the ditch is now non-existent because it’s been ripped apart by far more than the 3 vehicles that are properly able to use the driveway and the constant noise because of the revolving shift work and rotation of occupants has become atrocious. To date, the city hasn’t enforced their own new bylaw that we are aware of as the chaos continues. I’m all for people being able to use their property as they see fit, but some regulation is necessary if you’re going to be a landlord or short term hotelier
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POLL: Under a third of readers want an early Ontario election
12A silly comparison
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City Hall shakeup aims to save money, improve service: CAO
OrilliaMatters 20Now can we reduce the amount of money spent on consultants when we have in-house staff that could take on a bunch of that work with their experience and education?
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'Much is lost': Curtain closing on locally produced plays in Orillia
OrilliaMatters 21Interesting. Another example of staff being in charge of municipal affairs without input from the tax payer.
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Ramara residents voice concerns over proposed $40M solar park
OrilliaMatters 13NIMBYs as far as the eye can see 🤦♂️ This looks like a great project on lands identified to be unable to grow crops. Whats the problem here?
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City staff defend winter maintenance as complaints pile up
OrilliaMatters 21Snow removal is a very visual use of tax dollars so they should expect more complaints if the roads aren’t being maintained to minimal required standards (which seems to be the case given the comments in the article).
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'People need homes, not handcuffs': New bill panned by local advocate
OrilliaMatters 18You mean the encampments that have caused thousands for emergency fire services? The ones with needles left in them and on public trails? The ones that go buy drugs from the guy at the Silver Swan? 🤦♂️
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Local Catholic school board grappling with $7.1M budget deficit
OrilliaMatters 18Easy solution - get rid of the multiple school boards and teach religion at home.
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City to impose 50% hike in recreation fees for non-residents
OrilliaMatters 21Let’s generate some revenue by charging for parking at the waterfront - all those spaces are free. Last weekend 3 full coach busses dropped off people to use the park we pay to maintain and didn’t contribute a dime.
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Future of aging OSMH among issues on busy council agenda Monday
OrilliaMatters 15The city is on 2 lakes that freeze in the winter. We don’t need to waste money on a refrigerated trail or artificial ice rink. Stop the insanity
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Massive sinkhole shuts down James Street, impacts local businesses
OrilliaMatters 15More failing infrastructure in Orillia? Who would have guessed 🤦♂️
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'A problem': External generators powering Orillia pumping station
OrilliaMatters 17Interesting note: before she departed for Severn, a city manager said the system was already beyond capacity in 2024 so how are we able to keep approving more home builds knowing full well the system can’t handle it? Also to Roger Young - snowmelt and rain during the spring isn’t an extraordinary situation, it’s normal every spring in Canada. The ice storm which followed might have been an unusual situation, but that was the second time most basements flooded because you still didn’t put proper precaution in place from the first incident of the season. Do your job.
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Orillia plows struggling to keep up with 'staggering' amount of snow
OrilliaMatters 16Why do we always seem surprised it snows in Orillia each winter? 🤦♂️
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'Calculated decision': City plugging in 8 new EV charging stations
OrilliaMatters 7Councillor Smith is clearly ignorant to EVs 🤦♂️
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