Adjala-Tosorontio councillor questions CAO’s mileage payments By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald An Adjala-Tosorontio councillor is raising new questions about how public money is being spent at the township. Ward 1 Coun. Floyd Pinto is criticizing the monthly mileage expense reports filed by chief ad...
Efforts to reduce phosphorus loss into Ontario waterways and the Great Lakes will progress thanks to the funding announcement of $203,000 from Growing Forward 2, a Federal agricultural funding program administered through the Agricultural Adaptation Council. These funds will be matched with $100,000 ...
John Morrison -Alliston Herald photo Warden satisfied with local planning standards By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald The province’s growth policies either need to be more restrictive or more flexible, depending on what side of a municipality’s settlement boundary one farms on, say members of Simcoe ...
From Anita Nickerson Fair Vote Canada Minister of Democratic Institutions Maryam Monsef has launched a national survey on democratic reform. It will close on December 30. A postcard with the URL for the survey has been sent to 13 million homes now! On Thursday December 1, the all-party committee on e...
Liberal government adds river to list under Navigable Waters By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun The Nottawasaga River is once again protected under federal legislation. In October, the federal government added the river to the list of rivers and lakes protected under the Navigation Protection Act. Several area ...
AWARE News Network We did it! Thanks to you, the Nottawasaga River has been added to the schedule of the Navigation Protection Act. Only two rivers have had their protection restored by the Liberal government. The other is the Nass River in British Columbia. The reason? The Canada Gazette listing of ...
Bradford Times The Simcoe County Forest has now grown in size, with the addition of 104 acres (42 hectares) in Bradford West Gwillimbury. The property is the Kirkup Woods, described as Part Lot 18, Concession 12 in Bradford West Gwillimbury – a portion of the 200 acre farm formerly owned by the Kirku...
Climate change presents a serious threat to biodiversity – across the planet and right here at home.
Moose – World Wildlife Fund photo From Ontario Nature Scientists are telling us: Globally, we’re losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the natural rate of about one to five species per year; -Many species and ecosystems will be unable to keep pace with the rapid climate change that is project...
Democracy Now On Sunday the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the Dakota Access pipeline company a permit to drill underneath the Missouri River—officially halting construction of the $3.8 billion oil pipeline that has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota and mem...
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