Working group of Golden Horseshoe councillors wants to deal proactively with development industry, Ontario Municipal Board By Tim Kelly Aurora Banner A number of local elected officials want a straight answer to a simple question: why aren’t thei...

Government Operations Centre comes under privacy office scrutiny over monitoring of peaceful protests, academic panels By Alex Boutilier Toronto Star OTTAWA—Canada’s privacy watchdog wants more information on a central government agency keeping tabs on...

-Financial Post photo Nine years ago the government of Ontario vowed to plant 50 million trees in southern Ontario by 2020. It has fallen far short of its goal Peter Kuitenbrouwer Financial Post Anybody want a tree? Nine years ago the government of Ont...

From The Agenda TVO Mike Schreiner, leader of the Green Party of Ontario, zeroes in on Midhurst during discussion of fundraising practices in Ontario on The Agenda with Steve Paikin At 9:45 in timeline...

By Mehreen Shahid, Orillia Packet & Times A Canadian women’s university will honour a local teen in April, and a Hollywood star will make the presentation. Maya Burhanpurkar, 16, of Oro-Medonte Township, will be honoured with the Emerging Awa...

By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times At 11:10 a.m, 40 minutes after the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) pre-hearing on a temporary zoning bylaw amendment for Burl’s Creek Event Grounds was supposed to begin, a somewhat-disgruntled resid...

By John Edwards  Collingwood Connection Salaries paid to executives and employees of Collus Powerstream may soon be divulged, after Collingwood council passed a motion, Wednesday, asking for the information. While Collus Powerstream – and Collus prior ...

Does New Tecumseth care about pollution and climate change? Letter from Elaine Stephenson, Tiny Township I would like to share an exchange my husband and I had with the Town of New Tecumseth recently. On January 8, 2016, CTV Barrie News reported that A...

From Campaign Fairness What: Lessons from the trenches of municipal election campaigns – for fair campaign finance laws for Ontario municipalities. When: Thursday March 3, 2016, 3-5pm Where: The Box, 89 Niagara Street, at King and Bathurst, Toron...

Innisfil Journal While municipal leaders pull for the resurrection of a mothballed plan to build a bypass between highways 404 and 400, an environmental lawyer says the idea is outdated. Laura Bowman said she’s disappointed York Region and Simcoe Count...