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Ontario Builds Skilled Workforce with Strengthened Employment Services

Ontario’s Government is putting people first by improving employment services with a new system that focuses on the needs of local communities, workers and employers to help Ontarians get good, quality jobs. These improvements will help job seekers find and keep good jobs and assist employers in recruiting the skilled workers they need to build […]

Reflecting on 10 years since annexation in Barrie and Innisfil

by Shane MacDonald,  Chris Simon  Barrie Advance Ten years after the City of Barrie annexed land from Innisfil, and as development begins to ramp up in that area, Barrie Mayor Jeff Lehman says he feels the right decision was made. Sitting on a bargaining committee back then, he remembers there was a lot of misinformation circulating around the […]

Construction community concerned about revamped development charges

Karen Hansen from Pratt Homes says she’s ‘never seen a DC bylaw rushed through so quickly’; Developers ask for more time to review data by: Raymond Bowe As the city works toward an overhaul of its development charges, people in the construction community are hammering home concerns that the process is moving too quickly and mistakes could be […]