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Planned Multi Storey Building Lacks Affordable Units Mandated in City’s Official Plan
While an active farm into a residential and commercial usage is among upcoming big projects in Barrie
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- Simcoe CountyClr. Aylwin Seeks Clarification about Heart #Barrie Fundraising Project
City’s chief administrative officer said that it will be left to Councillor Mike McCann to decide.
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- Simcoe CountyBarrie’s Housing Advocates Protest ‘Harmful Proposed Pilot Project’
Advocates and activists spoke in favor of an approach which they say helps homeless people rather than punishing them.
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- Simcoe CountyFirst Post-Pandemic Simcoe County Theatre Festival Launches in Late June
In an election year, a play about two socialite women battling to seduce a fictional mayor
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- Simcoe CountyCounty’s Paramedics Services Still Reeling from Covid Pandemic
As residents used less emergency and hospital services during pandemic, illness has increased leading to higher volume
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- Simcoe CountyClr. Aylwin Talks about the Need for Compassionate Approach towards Homelessness and Poverty
Aylwin fails to defeat a motion ‘criminalizing’ homelessness but succeeds in getting the city to act in reducing it.
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- Simcoe CountyNDP Candidate Hoping to Win by Focusing on Healthcare, Social Safety Net and Environment
Beverley Patchell, who worked in private and public sector, is the NDP candidate in Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte
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- Simcoe CountyGreen’s Elyse Robinson Hoping to Woo voters with her “New and Fresh Perspective to Policy”
At 22, Elyse Robinson is the youngest provincial election candidate in the Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte riding.
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- Simcoe CountyKnow Your Candidate - John Olthuis, Liberal Candidate for Barrie-Innisfil
Olthuis is hoping to win the race against conservative candidate Andrea Khanjin with help of his previous experience
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- Simcoe CountyGreen Party’s Barrie-Innisfil candidate wants Ontario Reach Net Zero and Help Those in Need
Bonnie North also focuses on Green Party leader’s record to show that things can be changed for better.
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- Simcoe CountyBarrie Mayor Jeff Lehman Talks about his Run for Provincial Politics
Lehman, on unpaid of absence, is challenging MPP and Attorney Journal Doug Downey in the June 2 provincial election.
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- Simcoe CountyOver 2000 New Housing Units Planned for Downtown Barrie
Due to changing housing market conditions there is still uncertainty about price of mandated affordable housing units.
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