from the Ontario Farmland Trust For the first time, all of Ontario’s major farm organizations, representing some 52,000 farms and 78,000 farmers, have come together to present a strong, united message to the province: freeze urban boundaries now to stop urban sprawl and protect farming in the Greater...
Here’s an ancient idea: trees are sentient, social beings that communicate, recognize family members, learn and remember, adjust their behaviour and support each other through hard times. It’s an idea that speaks to the mystical within us, an idea we once learned, through myth, fable or aboriginal sp...
Some of the concerned Wasaga Beach residents who attended a county council hearing on the Easdale wetland. Among them – front row, fourth from right – is Town Councillor Sylvia Bray. -AWARE Simcoe photo By Kate Harries – AWARE News Network Some 30 Wasaga Beach residents watched from...
A fire was believed to have started in the refuse storage area at BFI Canada in Springwater in May 2013. -Barrie Examiner photo From Friends of Simcoe Forests Simcoe County’s plan to place an Environmental Resource Recovery Centre in a forest within Springwater Township raises serious safety concerns...
Health Canada Proposes Ban On Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid by Cory Knutt Pembina Valley Health Canada has now completed its re-evaluation of the neonicotinoid imidacloprid, which is used in pest control products. Scott Kirby, director of Environmental Evaluation at Health Canada, revealed the findings ...
Plaque presentation: from left, Andrew Campomizzi, Research Scientist, Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario; Richard Kelly, OTF Grant Review Team member for Simcoe-York; Zoé Lebrun-Southcott, Executive Director, Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario. -Gerald Morris photo News release from Bird Ecolo...
Public notice from New Tecumseth TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to the Planning Act the Corporation of the Town of New Tecumseth will hold a Public Meeting on Wednesday December 7, 2016 at 7:00pm in the Council Chambers of the Administration Centre, 10 Wellington Street East, Alliston THE PURPOSE of the p...
from Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority Shoreline Biodiversity & Citizen Science Workshops: Tuesday, November 29, 2016, — 7:00 to 9:00 pm First Presbyterian Church 200 Maple St., Collingwood Learn more about the biodiversity of the Georgian Bay shoreline in Wasaga Beach and Collingwood, an...
From the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Today we released our annual Greenhouse Gas Progress Report 2016 (download the report here). So much has happened in Ontario on climate change policy over the past year. The Ontario government met its 2014 greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target (6% below ...
From the Ontario Federation of Agriculture Ontario Federation of Agriculture’s (OFA) newest president, Keith Currie, was elected at the organization’s annual general meeting in Toronto this week. A Collingwood-area hay and sweet corn farmer, Currie becomes the 31st president to lead the 36,000 farm m...
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