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Credit NDP for Consistent
Opposition to HST
30 November, 2009
Why are all the newspapers giving so much attention to the
provincial Liberals’ and Conservatives’ flip-flops over the
HST in the past few years and giving no credit to Andrea
Horwath and the NDP for its consistent opposition to it? |
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$0 for The Blue Mountains, $200,000
for the Philippines
Jim Wilson Keeps up the Fight for Tornado Relief
25 November, 2009
Progressive Conservative MPP Jim Wilson (Simcoe-Grey) asked
Dalton McGuinty in Question Period today why he approved
$200,000 in disaster relief for the typhoon that hit the
Philippines when he hasn't given 1 cent to the apple growers
in The Blue Mountains. |
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National Ski Academy Student Athletes Return from Successful
Swiss Training Camp
October 13, 2009–National
Ski Academy (NSA) student athletes, coaches and teachers
returned to Collingwood following a highly successful eight
week camp in Switzerland. With the ski community buzz about
the 2010 Olympics, these aspiring young racers completed an
early start to their academic studies and training and
conditioning on and off the hill. |
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WILSON RAISES TORNADO ISSUE
IN LEGISLATURE
MPP Calls for Extraordinary Assistance
18 September, 2009
Today in the Ontario Legislature, Simcoe-Grey MPP Jim Wilson
rose to inform the government of the devastation caused by
the devastating F-2 tornado that touched down in The Blue
Mountains on August 20, 2009. |
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Why Not a Coalition
Government?
8 September, 2009
Michael Ignatieff will need the support of the opposition
parties this month to defeat the Conservative government. |
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Weekly Excerpts |
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In Butchers, Bakers and
Building the Lakers: Voices of Collingwood, released
in September, 2008, author Christine Cowley distills the
stories of generations of Collingwood residents and combines
it with historical research for a richly presented
oral/pictorial history spanning more than 150 years—just in
time to mark the town’s sesquicentennial anniversary. |
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Week One Excerpt |
Real Estate in Collingwood
and the Town of the Blue Mountains
Summer 2008
John M. Band + Karen Poshtar + Karen Willison |
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Another
Historic Landmark Becomes Dust
21 May, 2008
Collingwood's 'Historical Society' and Collingwood Town
Council failed to recognize the symbolic and historical
significance behind the Kaufman Stack, and made no attempt
to save it for inclusion into the site’s redevelopment.
Perhaps they were preoccupied - trying to save the
horrendous, dilapidated, and in my humble opinion, repugnant
facades of the former Tremont Hotel.
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More Pictures Here |
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Artwork presents a
different vision for the Collingwood Grain Terminals |
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Blue
Mountain's snow making facilities featured on the Discovery
Channel...
View the video presentation |
