• Protecting Water and Farmland in Simcoe County

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Jan 25th, 2015
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BY ANTHONY SCHNECK Mind Body Green  It’s difficult enough for one person to live a zero-waste lifestyle; can you imagine if an entire grocery store tried it? Well, one market in Berlin, Germany is actually making it happen. At Original Unverpackt...
Jan 23rd, 2015
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AWARE News Network You have until Sunday January 25 at 11:59 pm to comment on the Ontario government’s consultation on plans to protect pollinators by limiting neonicotinoid use. Here’s the information about the government’s proposals. See below a samp...
Jan 23rd, 2015
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By Bruce Buttar, Board Member, Ontario Federation of Agriculture After thoroughly reviewing the provincial government’s discussion paper on pollinator health, attending public consultation meetings and researching causes of bee morality, the Ontario Fe...
Jan 23rd, 2015
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By Anna Baggio CPAWS Wildlands League Huffington Post This is the only reasonable conclusion I can come up with after listening to Ontario’s lawyers in court late last week defend a regulation (O Reg 176/13) that exempts almost all industrial act...
Jan 23rd, 2015
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Township must remove waste from old quarry by Jan. 30 By Patrick Bales Orillia Packet & Times The saga of some inappropriately dumped waste in Ramara Township continues. Ramara’s committee of the whole received an official letter from the Ontario M...
Jan 23rd, 2015
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From New Tecumseth Free Press Online The West Country planned subdivision in Beeton has received water and wastewater allocation for 123 residential units. Walton South Simcoe Residential Development, “a joint residential project” with Alli...
Jan 23rd, 2015
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from Utopia Hall Hello! Hope that 2015 has started out well for you & yours. We are extremely grateful for your ongoing support and happy to let you know about the soon-to-be and longer term exciting happenings that are ahead of us at the Utopia Ha...
Jan 22nd, 2015
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By Bill Tremblay Orangeville Banner All votes will now be recorded votes in Orangeville’s council chambers. Traditionally, a councillor would call a recorded vote if they perceived the issue as particularly import to municipal business. On Monday (Jan....
Jan 22nd, 2015
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From Facebook When: Friday February 13th at 1pm Where: The constituency office of MP Kellie Leitch, the Minister for the Status of Women. What: Gathering together as one voice to demand an Indigenous women-led National Inquiry. There is not one seat at...
Jan 22nd, 2015
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 New Tecumseth Free Press Online  Simcoe County council’s direction to its senior staff to keep the 2015 levy increase to one per cent over last year, has resulted in $1.389 million worth of adjustments to the draft. The impact will lower the pre...