Council Preview
In August council rejected a staff recommendation to change the voting system over to voting by internet and telephone for elections next year.
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What Are You Going To Do?
The real beauty of our system is having a minority government, and we have had many.
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How To Get Along, Yes, There Is More
And finally, don’t be mean about money matters. A good wife never wastes her husband’s money. That is his job.
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Sustainable Orillia Month Webinars
You can register for all of these free of charge events.
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Russ Emo: Back To The Future
“When something is made law, it’s very difficult to overturn things. If we had power and we could do that, it would be a long, maybe impossible target to do.”
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Editorial: Cast Your Vote Wisely
Then we must vote for those who are listening. And hold them to account.
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This Week In Art/Culture/Entertainment
If there is any justice in the world, some day after the roof is finished, I’ll be reporting with photos, someone managed to climb up there and do a chalk drawing on it.
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Stephen Makk: Something For Everybody
“Let’s start with something practical and let’s start at the bottom of those basic needs of life and leave those philosophical discussions to go, maybe it will go on forever,”
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Fall Fair Hits Right Note
“We were allowed 5,000 and I think we’re somewhere just under that,”
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Council Preview
They also say decisions to create a new class have long-term effects which need to be investigated and modeled in order for the municipality to not shoot itself in the foot by overlooking all potential outcomes.
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