from the Barrie Native Friendship Centre Saturday June 11, Sunday June 12 –  Gshkoziwin:Awakening at Springwater Park June 11 Grand entry: 12 noon and 7 pm / Community Feast 5:30 pm June 12 Grand entry: 12 noon Admission: $5 pp MC: Meeg Snake &am...

Province Brings in Legislation to Increase Recycling, Create Jobs, Fight Climate Change Ontario government news release Today, Ontario passed legislation that will divert more waste from landfills, create jobs and help fight climate change. Currently, ...

Grassy Narrows: The most toxic community in Canada, says scientist By Barb Nahwegahbow Windspeaker  “I would say 100 per cent of our people are poisoned by mercury,” said grandmother Judy Da Silva speaking about her community of Grassy Narrows First Na...

Sixth day of OMB Burl’s Creek hearing comes to a close By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times June 1 2016 Opponents of expansion at Burl’s Creek Event Grounds argued Wednesday not only is money not a good enough reason to justify ...

Ottawa, Newmarket, Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg… from 350.org From May 24th-27th, MPs across Canada hosted climate townhalls for their constituents. At every event, the room was packed with hundreds of people speaking up for the People’s Climate...

From the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation On May 10, the province announced its proposed changes to the Greenbelt. These included several positive moves: growing the Greenbelt into 28 urban river valleys and wetlands; more support for farming and lo...

CTV News The owners of Saugeen Country Homey are moving to New Zealand because of lax pesticide regulation in Ontario. They say millions of bees in their hives have died, poisoned by neo-nicotinoid pesticides. Link to video...

By Patrick Bales Orillia Packet & Times Peter Thoma of UrbanMetrics would tell you that when it comes to Burl’s Creek there’s no place, like this place, anywhere near this place – so, this must be the place. Save Oro and the West Oro Ra...

News release from Springwater Township The Township of Springwater is pleased with the outcome of the hearings held by Simcoe County Council on May 24, 2016 regarding the requests for population allocation under the County’s 20,000 Population Allocatio...

The issues we’ve created, we should solve them,’ says student who helped develop project By Errol Nazareth, Morgan Dunlop, CBC News They measure less than a millimetre across but they pose a massive threat to our Great Lakes, and a group of...