News release from Gravel Watch Ontario Gravel Watch Ontario, a coalition of Ontario community and environmental groups, is alarmed by provisions in the 2014 Provincial Policy Statement (PPS) that promote reprocessing of toxic industrial waste in aggreg...

By GISELE WINTON SARVIS, QMI AGENCY Landowners within the Lake Simcoe watershed are needed to help restore the health of Lake Simcoe and southeastern Georgian Bay. Environment Canada recently announced funding of more than $3 million for the Lake Simco...

By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance When Darcy Murray was called for an automated poll last Thursday, he hung up because the question just didn’t make sense. Funded by the campaign to re-elect Mayor Jeff Lehman, the automated poll asks voters if they’d vote ...

from MPAC website In support of this year’s municipal and school board elections, MPAC has partnered with its stakeholders to launch voterlookup.ca, a website where potential electors can confirm and/or update their information in a few easy steps. vot...

By Michael McClymont Orillia Packet & Times  Orillia – A throng of supporters filled the lobby at Orillia city hall as Steve Clarke made official his intention to run for mayor of the city. The local businessman filed his election papers Wedn...

Marshall explains possible school closure emotional issue for many By Jenni Dunning Midland Mirror PENETANGUISHENE – A petition calling for the Penetanguishene and Midland secondary schools to stay open has angered school board trustees and is being ca...

By Heidi Riedner Georgina Advocate The area’s local conservation authority plans to parlay $3 million in federal funds into $14 million in key watershed projects during the next three years. The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority received more t...

From Transition Collingwood Earth Day Watershed Clean-up Join Transition Collingwood, Blue Mountain Watershed Trust, Nature League, Women for the Water, and CCI for a community clean-up of Collingwood’s public spaces and waterways. Tuesday April ...

The April 22 meeting of Springwater Council is going to be very important – and not just for Midhurst. – Anyone who cares about the Minesing Wetlands and the Nottawasaga watershed should attend. – Anyone who lives downstream of the pr...

Come and join us at St. Thomas Church Hall in Shanty Bay this Friday April 25 at 7:00pm Bee Poster You are invited to a viewing of the documentary film “Vanishing of the Bees” that focuses on the disappearing bees, the effects of neonicotin...