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Mar 25th, 2014
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 From AWARE Oro Medonte AWARE Oro-Medonte is holding its Annual General Meeting on  Thursday April 24, 2014 from 7:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. at the Edgar Community Hall Guest speakers are Tim Crooks & Claire Malcolmson of Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition TOPIC:  ‘Saving Lake Simcoe’ Learn about the Lake S...
Mar 3rd, 2014
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AWARE Essa is hosting a viewing of the documentary VANISHING of the BEES  Saturday March 22, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. in the Utopia Hall 8396 6th Line Utopia ON Discussion to follow with local beekeepers. Refreshments will be served....
Mar 1st, 2014
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By Kate Harries The Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority has voted in favour of requesting that the federal government add the Nottawasaga River to the new federal Navigation Protection Act. NVCA chair Nina Bifolchi, a Wasaga Beach councillor, attempted to defer the decision, but lost on a tied ...
Feb 25th, 2014
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A staff report to directors of the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority recommends a resolution to request that the federal government include the Nottawasaga River in the Navigation Protection Act. The board meets Friday February 28 at the Tiffin Conservation Area. The meeting, which is open to...
Feb 25th, 2014
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The Nottawasaga Valley Concervation Authority board of directors will decide Friday February 28 whether to approve a resolution supporting the Town of Clearview and the Municipality of Essa in their request for the federal government to add the Nottawasaga River and all its tributaries to waterways r...
Feb 11th, 2014
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Clearview Township has become the second municipality to support AWARE Simcoe’s campaign to get the Nottawasaga River listed under the federal government’s new Navigation Protection Act. The first council to come on board was Essa Township. Monday night Clearview Council passed a resolution that read...
Jan 22nd, 2014
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The following is the text of a presentation being made to local councils by AWARE Simcoe board members Kate Harries and Anne Learn Sharpe. The next presentation will be to Collingwood Council on February 10 at 5 pm. Musical adaptation of slide show Navigable Waters Protection Act In 2012, the federal...
Jan 12th, 2014
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AWARE Simcoe news release AWARE Simcoe is calling on Ontario to plan for finite, sustainable communities. The underlying assumption of the current planning regime is one of perpetual growth, with no community ever deemed to be complete, no level of population ever enough. “In our view this assumption...
Jan 10th, 2014
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PDF version: Planning-review-response Introduction Following the announcement of the review of Ontario land use planning and development charges and the series of workshops that were to be held in Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ottawa, Mississauga and Toronto, AWARE Simcoe chair D...
Jan 10th, 2014
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PDF version:   DC-review-response AWARE Simcoe is a citizens’ group that works to protect water, the environment and health through transparency and accountability in government. AWARE Simcoe does not have the resources to prepare a lengthy and detailed review of the Development Charges Act but we of...