The steady drip of the neurotoxin mercury has percolated through river sediment, the food chain and generations of Grassy Narrows First Nations residents for more than four decades, killing a community’s livelihood and then contaminating its people By David Bruser and Jamie Poisson Toronto Star GRASS...
Dozens of organizations and activists join residents calling for a ‘Bluebelt’ to protect water sources for the health and prosperity of the region News release from The Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition The Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition (SCGC) is calling on the province and county to expand the G...
Letter from Cindy Mercer, Springwater I am writing this letter in regards to the recent press release by the County of Simcoe on June 16, 2016. The article indicates there has been two recent incidents of hazardous waste dumped in the Hendrie Tract near Anten Mills. Our County Forests are very valuab...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Georgian Bay may be at its highest point in two decades, but the flow in the rivers and streams that feed it has dropped. On Monday, the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority issued a Level 1 low water condition for the Nottawasaga River watershed. The conservation authori...
By Patrick Bales Orillia Packet & Times The upcoming summer festivals at Burl’s Creek will be a fading memory by the time a justice of the peace determines the fate of a private prosecution against Republic Live. After a nearly five-and-a-half-hour-long pretrial motion hearing Tuesday in Or...
News release from Save Oro Mere days before the beginning of the WayHome concerts, Oro-Medonte resident Wendy McKay will be in court Tuesday July 19 to pursue her private prosecution of concert promoters Republic Live in connection with alleged bylaw violations at last year’s Burl’s Creek concerts. T...
A new report examining impact of mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows First Nation says obvious symptoms are the “tip of the iceberg” By Jayme Poisson and David Bruser Toronto Star The level of mercury found in the umbilical cords of babies in Grassy Narrows First Nation was high enough to affect thei...
Did decades of mercury poisoning play a role in Azraya Kokopenace’s suicide? By Bernie Farber NOW Toronto Her name was Azraya Kokopenace, and she was only 14 years old when she took her life. Police had left the Grassy Narrows First Nation youth at the hospital in Kenora on April 15. She was fo...
AWARE News Network The Ontario Municipal Board hearing into an application by several Midhurst developers for extra population allocations starts Monday July 18 2016 at 10:30 am in the council chambers of the Simcoe County administration building (1110 Highway 26). Five days have been set aside to de...
From Environmental Defence Ontario’s award-winning Greenbelt protects farmland, forests, wetlands and abundant clean water supplies. It also supports a thriving rural economy including the $11 billion agriculture and food sector that provides 110,000 Ontario jobs. A bigger and strengthened Greenbelt ...
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