Countylive.ca Turbines have toppled turtles in Ontario Divisional Court and Gilead Power has regained its go-ahead to build nine industrial wind turbines on the south shore of Prince Edward County. The court met for three days in Toronto at the end of ...

 By Meade Helman I have written here before about municipal reform. I think our current way of conducting municipal business is unfair and not democratic. Officials get elected, often without having a majority if there are more than two candidates runn...

By Meade Helman The town staff brought forward the budget for engineering of a number of projects to support future growth. NOTE: The council had already approved obtaining $66 mil in funding from developers that, if the employment lands weren’t popula...

Clearview Township has become the second municipality to support AWARE Simcoe’s campaign to get the Nottawasaga River listed under the federal government’s new Navigation Protection Act. The first council to come on board was Essa Township. Monday nigh...

By Bill French – Local Advocate and Council Watch The township held a public meeting Feb 10th to discuss and recommend passing its 2014 operating and capital budget on Feb 25th at a special public meeting of council. It appears that this council,...

The radical Midhurst Secondary Plan requires radical (and very risky) public financing By Les Stewart .There is nothing clever about looting the treasury, loading up mega-debt and pacifying taxpayers with a soothing  2% tax rate hike. The draft budget ...

Time for diaper manufacturers to change their ways? By Kate Harries A proposed $35 million composting facility is likely to become an issue in this year’s municipal election after Simcoe County councillors last month approved a plan to move forward wit...

From the Ontario Clean Air Alliance Electricity prices have been a big issue in the two current provincial by-elections.  So we asked the candidates from the four major parties whether they were prepared to oppose Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG&...

Ontario Farmland Trust Toward Permanent Land Protectionm in an Evolving Policy Environment Friday, March 7, 2014 – Arboretum Centre, University of Guelph Forum Program 8:30 Registration 9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks Norman Ragetlie, Chair, Ontario...

 Megaquarry News Food & Water First is holding a Public Meeting about the economic importance of Ontario’s prime farmland. Guest speakers include: Bonnefield Financial CEO, Tom Eisenhauer (Bonnefield bought the former Mega Quarry lands, 6,500...