Ontario Premier Doug Ford From the Canadian Environmental Law Association CELA will be hosting a webinar in partnership with Environmental Defence and Ontario Nature on Tuesday, Nov 17th at 7pm about the proposed changes to the Conservation Authorities Act and to the conservation authorities’ role i...
Nottawasaga River -Gary Christie photo Action Alert – We Need Our Conservation Authorities From the Canadian Environmental Law Association – Scroll down for Environmental Defence, Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and others On November 5, 2020, the Ontario government tabled omnibus budget mea...
Doug Ford’s government moves to limit the power of conservation authorities, sparking fears for the environment By Noor Javed Toronto Star Wed., Nov. 11, 2020 New legislation by Doug Ford’s provincial government will override the powers of Ontario’s conservation authorities, limiting their ability to...
A woodland caribou calf pictured in Quebec in 2017. Advocates say woodland caribou could be impacted by the Ontario government’s move to exempt forestry companies from endangered species law. Wikimedia Commons photo By Emma McIntosh National Observer The Ontario government is attempting to make...
Letter from AWARE Simcoe chair Don Morgan to MPPs Jill Dunlop, Doug Downey, Andrea Khanjin and others Many residents who live in the area of Lake Simcoe and are affected directly or indirectly with the health of the lake and the watershed are wondering what is going on with the Lake Simcoe Protection...
Ontario Nature, Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition, Couchiching Conservancy write letter asking township to keep zoning the same By Nathan Taylor Barrie Today Opposition to a proposed quarry in Severn Township continues to grow. The township recently received a letter jointly submitted by Ontario Natu...
From Ontario Nature The Government of Ontario is showing its true colours with recent moves to ride roughshod over protections for Provincially Significant Wetlands (PSWs). The first sign of trouble was a Minister’s Zoning Order (MZO) to demolish three PSWs on agriculturally zoned land in Vaughan so...
Sample being collected from an area artesian well – AWARE Simcoe photo AWARE News Network A series of posts in the Friends of the Waverley Uplands Facebook group from September 19 to October 31 2020 details water issues being experienced by residents in the vicinity of the Teedon Pit in Waverle...
Lovers Creek Ravine From Change.org Residents of Painswick South District, specifically those on Loon Avenue, are outraged and saddened by a proposed townhome development being planned in their backyards at 521 Huronia Road, Barrie, backyards which back onto Lovers Creek Ravine (a provincially protec...
Baldwick Bluffs in the Minesing Wetlands – NCC photo News release from the Nature Conservancy of Canada The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) announced today the protection of 32 hectares (80 acres) in the globally important Minesing Wetlands, just 15 kilometres west of Barrie. The newly creat...
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