Barrie Advance Tickets for the taping of The Agenda with Steve Paikin are sold out — but we’ll be able to see how local panelists answer questions about our growing city Monday and Tuesday at 8 p.m. Two episodes of the current affairs show focus on Ba...

From Jack Gibbons North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance Last month the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) quietly issued revised draftWatershed Development Guidelines that do NOT permit the building of subdivisions on provincially significan...

AWARE Simcoe Factsheet on LRSCA’s Subdivisions-in-Wetlands policy...

AWARE News Network Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO) will host a webinar on January 22 at 1:00pm to highlight his report, Managing New Challenges. In this one-hour session, he will present his perspective and his advice to minist...

EcoJustice news release TORONTO- Ecojustice lawyers are in court today challenging an Ontario government regulation that allows major industrial sectors to kill species at-risk and destroy their habitat. The regulation provides broad exemptions from pr...

From Peter Anderson Tiny Township Tiny Township is considering an official plan and zoning amendment to allow Beamish Construction limited to expand its existing aggregate operation on part lot 79 and 80 (40 Darby Road ) North to 2 Darby Road. To my kn...

AWARE News Network AWARE Simcoe is pleased to welcome Gary Christie, an accomplished angler and knowledgeable biologist, to our organization’s lineup of bloggers. Gary, who has been president of the Nottawasaga Steelheaders since 2001, and a member of ...

From the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner says he’s adopting a waitand- see attitude towards the government’s Conservation First philosophy. In releasing his 2014 Energy Conservation Progress Report “Planning t...

By Patrick Bales Orillia Packet & Times Ramara Township has been reprimanded by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) for violating the Environmental Protection Act. A notice of violation was delivered to the township Monday afternoon by th...

By Sara Carson Alliston Herald SIMCOE COUNTY – Simcoe County may double its spending on road construction this year to take advantage of low short-term borrowing costs, said Trevor Wilcox, the county’s general manager of corporate performance. Th...