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It’s a sign of the times where the failure of higher authorities to address the root causes of violent behaviour and deal with the general breakdown of civil decorum are forcing municipalities with fewer resources to spend money to protect staff from violent outbursts.
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ShareBy John Swartz The City of Orillia spent $777,000 renovating the Rotary Aqua Theatre. The first event at the refurbished
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One of the ways to find out is to attend the candidate information session the City of Orillia hosts on Thursday July 7 from 6 to 8 p.m.
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ShareBy John Swartz The application under the Judicial Review Procedure Act Orillia councillor Jay Fallis brought against the City of
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… it’s a sad illustration of the state of healthcare in Ontario that communities are pitted against each other in order to have the needed amount of doctors and specialists…
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Orillia is uniquely situated with two educational institutions, Hydro One which will rely heavily on fiber network communications which will reach throughout the province, and two major backbone trunk lines intersecting in the City.
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The consent agenda has some interesting items on it, for a change. The Snowbirds will be at the…
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The way they were able to achieve having 84 parking spots was by expanding the boundary of the parking lot up to French’s Stand because the new roadway will be going behind French’s.
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Annual household items reuse and recycling program runs all summer.
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Oddly, under the report header of the agenda is a motion to allow the City to issue a debenture not to exceed $10,765,000 over a 20 year term for phase 2 of the Centennial Drive reconstruction project.
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