from Ontario Clean Air Alliance Just before Christmas, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) quietly undermined one of the most important climate change initiatives in Ontario by putting arbitrary limits on programs designed to help us use natural gas more ef...

By Paul Brian Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin At its Jan. 5 session Collingwood Town Council deferred receipt of a Service Agreement Review on Collingwood Public Utilities (CPU). The review claims the need for clearer definition of services, increased ...

Innisfil Journal Based on a positive trend in lake herring populations, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) has re-opened the fishery on Lake Simcoe. Anglers have been anxiously awaiting the opportunity, said Matt DeMille, manager of ...

By Roberta Bell Orillia Packet & Times COLDWATER  – Bolstering economic development in the region is going to be a challenge, but it’s one municipal politicians and their supporters hope to work with the provincial government on this year. Si...

Suggested highway would run from Vaughan to Milton running through the Greenbelt and prime farmland By: Noor Javed Toronto Star The province is in the midst of planning a new highway that will carry drivers across the GTA from Vaughan to Milton — in th...

By Roberta Bell, Orillia Packet & Times The Ministry of the Environment is keeping an eye on Ramara Township after staff authorized potentially contaminated waste to be dumped at a decommissioned municipal quarry. After the drainage catch basins un...

Letter to the Orillia Packet & Times In the latest incarnation of the Harper government’s absurd conviction that it, and it alone, knows what’s best for the Canadian economy comes the statement that regulating greenhouse gases in the oil and gas se...

From Utopia Hall Book now for a dinner and concert at Utopia Hall, 8369 6th Line, Utopia, featuring the Sultans of String, an instrumental music group based in Toronto, combining elements of Spanish flamenco, Arabic folk, Cuban rhythms, and French Mano...

Science indicates that clearcuts will deepen the tragedy of mercury poisoning News release from FreeGrassy Grassy Narrows – On the night before Christmas Grassy Narrows First Nation received notice that Ontario is rejecting the community’s ...

By John Edwards Collingwood Connection  Brian Saunderson is hoping council opts for a different direction for the Town of Collingwood in 2015. After nearly two years of advocating for change away from the council table through the Better Together Colli...