One of the first of many projects to use Ontario Health Study data now published Ontario Health Study Newsletter This article originally appeared in the October 2015 issue of Hospital News Trees provide us with shade and help to clean the air, but new research shows they may also be helping us out in...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun The Niagara Escarpment Commission has thrown up a roadblock to a plan to upgrade the road network around County Road 91. At the NEC’s Nov. 19 meeting, commissioners went against the advice of their planner and said no to Clearview Township’s application to upgrade the 26-27 Si...
From Sierra Club Canada Foundation Eleven of Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial premiers were in Ottawa Monday for a climate science briefing and four-hour working dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The First Ministers received the briefing from two of the country’s leading climate scient...
Unfair chase: The spring bear hunt is bad policy founded on bad science The Ontario government is proposing a five-year extension of the spring bear hunt across 88 of the province’s Wildlife Management Units, including some in Simcoe County. From Ontario Nature The Ontario government is proposing to...
Changes needed for provincial land-use policies to recognize farmland as a permanent feature with economic and ecosystem benefits From Environmental Defence, Ontario Federation of Agriculture Farmers and environmentalists don’t always agree, but today Environmental Defence and the Ontario Federation ...
AWARE Simcoe Action Alert On Tuesday, November 24, county councillors will decide whether or not to pursue the $5,000 in legal costs a judge has awarded in the Beeton Woods case. The item is on the Committee of the Whole (COW) agenda. COW meetings start at 9:30 a.m. at the Simcoe County Administratio...
County’s official plan would expand protection By Sara Carson Barrie Advance When you drink tap water, take a shower and swim in a local lake, you want that water to be clean and safe. This is why the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition is asking the province to expand Ontario’s Greenbelt in our area. ...
By Brent Patterson Council of Canadians Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow is in Vienna, Austria today to speak against the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). A Facebook event page highlights (in German), “Lecture in English with German translati...
from Food and Water First The Ontario government continues its review of the Aggregate Resources Act (a move triggered by the fight to stop the Mega Quarry) and is seeking comments from the public to its proposed changes. The government’s ideas are being studied by our volunteers and we will so...
Dark-eyed Junco, victim of window collision – Mary Barber photo Ontario Environment Ministry proposing to give up key power to protect songbirds From FLAP (Fatal Light Awareness Project) Canada Millions of birds are killed in collisions with windows each year across Canada. FLAP Canada has doc...
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