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Finance and Responsible Governance Committee – Wednesday, November 22, 2023, 5pm
a presentation on the 2024 City Services Operating Budget and Capital Plan, reconstructing the Painswick Park parking lot, and getting...
Accountability Team
Nov 18, 20234 min read
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Circulation List for November 22, 2023
Of particular note: the report from the National Working Group on Homeless Encampments Circulation List: https://barrie.legistar.com/Vie...
Accountability Team
Nov 17, 20232 min read
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General Committee – Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 7pm
transit changes, reviewing Advisory Committees, parking and accessibility, zoning amendments in Ward 7, selling the City's shares in the...
Accountability Team
Nov 10, 20235 min read
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City Council - Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 7pm
Two direct motions reducing the timeline for Council to override the Mayor's "Strong Mayor Powers" at Budget time Watch Online: ...
Accountability Team
Nov 5, 20234 min read
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General Committee – Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 7pm
moving forward on the new Comprehensive Zoning Bylaw, and changes to the new Lobbyist Registry that may give the City more work than they...
Accountability Team
Oct 27, 20233 min read
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Barrie's Homeless Policy Ignites Global Outrage: The UN Takes Notice, and an Expert Panel Weighs In
Three Engage Barrie Organization members spoke with Barrie Community Media for a panel discussion on the City of Barrie's contentious...
Engage Barrie
Oct 17, 20231 min read
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Barrie Advance reveals details from FOI regarding City's Anti-Homeless Motion
As suspected, the BHHJN's FOI request has revealed that there was no need for Hamilton & Morales's May 17 Direct Motion Without Notice –...
Engage Barrie
Oct 10, 20231 min read
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City Council - Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 7pm
Youth Exchanges, and a potential Arts & Culture partnership on the waterfront Watch Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgRMOIix840...
Accountability Team
Sep 30, 20237 min read
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Finance and Responsible Governance Committee – Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 6pm
including the YTD Internal Audit Status Report Watch Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPUll6y8HOg Agenda: ...
Accountability Team
Sep 22, 20231 min read
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Council Follow-up, week of September 11, 2023
The first week back from summer vacation – and the revelation of a distinct lack of transparency and accountability at City Hall....
Accountability Team
Sep 14, 20235 min read
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Community Safety Committee – Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 6pm - Public Meeting: HOMELESSNESS
This is "The Biggie" – the Public Meeting to discuss the anti-homeless motion and bills brought forward this spring. Please consider...
Accountability Team
Sep 14, 20232 min read
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Circulation List, August 24, 2023
Nominations open until September 4 for the Barrie Arts Awards, vote for Barrie's best "places and spaces", and another municipality...
Accountability Team
Aug 23, 20232 min read
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Damon Baldwin-Fox's speech from the "Stop The War On The Poor" Rally
On May 31, the Barrie Housing and Homelessness Justice Network hosted a rally at City Hall to "Stop the War On the Poor", in response to...
Engage Barrie
Jul 17, 20233 min read
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Fact-Checking City & Council Communications re: "Homelessness" Motion & Bills
We made note of some incorrect information stated in the June 21 Council meeting, at which the controversial Bills 67 & 68 (the...
Engage Barrie
Jul 6, 202316 min read
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Disrupting False Information and Logical Fallacies For Good
Contributing member Jennifer van Gennip has pulled together some great resources for both recognizing misinformation and dealing with it,...
Jennifer van Gennip
Jul 2, 20231 min read
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Radio Waterloo Interview with Engage Barrie
Engage Barrie discusses Barrie City Council's repressive agenda targeting homeless people Radio Waterloo's M.P. Holmes interviewed our...
Engage Barrie
Jul 1, 20231 min read
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Report re: Harassment Allegations against Alyssa Wright and Engage Barrie Organization
This is a public version of the internal report presented to EBO's membership at its Annual Members Meeting on November 27, 2022. An...
Engage Barrie
Jun 21, 20236 min read
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Controversial Bills 67 & 68 Referred to Staff – plus Clarification on Existing Bylaws
First of all, we are happy to announce that Bills 67 and 68 did NOT get passed by Council tonight – thank you to everyone who took the...
Engage Barrie
Jun 21, 20232 min read
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JHSSM Response to Bills 67 & 68
Our colleagues at the John Howard Society of Simcoe & Muskoka has released a statement of their opposition to the Bylaw amendments. ...
Engage Barrie
Jun 19, 20232 min read
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RALLY and SILENT PROTEST: Stop the War on the Poor!
Our colleagues at the Barrie Housing and Homelessness Justice Network are hosting this event, Wednesday (June 21, 6:30pm) before and...
Engage Barrie
Jun 18, 20231 min read
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