AWARE News Network The March 7 deadline is fast approaching for you to let the government know what you think about expanding the Greenbelt into Simcoe County. Here’s a map of the area to be studied (we’re not at the stage of defining an expanded greenbelt yet). This is a simple explanation of what y...
Compliance audit committee members Colin McLarty, George Wodoslawsky and Robert Barlow leave the township administration centre after meeting in January. -AWARE Simcoe photo French, McLean, township ready to settle in July 2017, but committee refused, mayor says By Kate Harries AWARE News Network The...
The following is the text of a deputation by Springwater Mayor Bill French to the township’s compliance audit committee (Colin McLarty and George Wodoslawsky in attendance) on February 27 2018 Thank you for allowing me to address the Committee today before you make a decision. I appreciate tha...
Edwin Espinal U.S.-trained police are hunting down protestors in Honduras post-election crisis By Sandra Cuffe The Intercept IT WAS THE middle of the night when they broke down the door. The children, aged 3 and 6, and their parents were all fast asleep in their home in Pimienta, a town 18 miles so...
Vicki Monague By Kate Harries AWARE News Network The Ontario government has extended by two months the comment period on an application by CRH Canada Group for a 10-year renewal to its permit to take water (PTTW) at the Dufferin Aggregates Teedon pit. The pit is on the French’s Hill recharge area for...
From the Township of Springwater The February 21, 2018 Springwater Council Meeting has been rescheduled to begin at 5:00 pm to allow for a Public Information Session regarding the Province of Ontario’s proposed study area for the expansion of the greenbelt. The Information Session will commence at 7:...
Springwater compliance audit committee members Colin McLarty, George Wodoslawsky and Robert Barlow leave the township administration centre after meeting last month. AWARE Simcoe photo By Kate Harries AWARE News Network The cost to taxpayers of a committee investigation of the election campaign expen...
Edwin Espinal By Sean Grech CTV News Barrie An Elmvale family is making a plea to the federal government after they say a loved one was wrongfully jailed in Honduras. Janet Spring has been doing everything in her power to help her daughter’s partner of eight years. They are demanding the rele...
Edwin Espinal Letter from KAIROS to Minister Chrystia Freeland Dear Minister Freeland, KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiative is an organization of tennational churches and church organizations with a long history of working on issues of human rights and ecological justice in Latin America. ...
Paddlers make their way through the Minesing Wetlands in Springwater, just west of Barrie. – Nature Conservancy phot0 Barrie Advance Already one of the largest and least disturbed wetlands in Ontario, even more land along the Minesing Wetlands could soon be protected. The Nature Conservancy of ...
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