By Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald ESSA – With budget talks now over, Essa’s tax levy is increasing 3.9 per cent this year. The township’s 2014 levy was shaved down from $4.7 million to $4.64 million during council’s third budget meeting last nigh...

Carl Cosack of the Mega-Quarry battle to speak From the MRA This year, our theme is “Community Matters”. When: Sunday January 26 2014 from 4-7 pm Where: Midhurst Community Centre, 74 Doran Road Our community does matter and so we will be ho...

By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance Barrie taxpayers are being asked for more and more money for an array of services, such as police, library, long-term care and environmental protection, when service providers made their pitches to council Monday. Simcoe C...

Let’s put Ontario Ombudsman André Marin in charge of investigating back-room municipal meetings and needless secrecy, not just for some cities, but for all Toronto Star Editorial  Fairness demands that public business be conducted in the open, for all ...

Municipalities in Ontario are allowed to appoint anybody they’d like to investigate secret meetings, leading to what Ombudsman Andre Marin calls a “patchwork” system where governments can ditch investigators they disagree with By Tim Alamenciak Toronto...

By Bill Tremblay Orangeville Banner The Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) is preparing for a possible legal battle with Dufferin Wind Power Inc. On Friday (Jan. 10), Jonathon Myers and Crawford Smith, lawyers for the company appeared bef...

Wetlands or Profits? UPDATED  From Jack Gibbons North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance According to Fraser Nelson of Metrus Developments, the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) should permit Metrus to build a 1,073 unit mobile home park (Mapl...

Global News TORONTO –Amalgamating Toronto, Scarborough, York, North York, East York, and Etobicoke has cost taxpayers more money, not less, according to new research out of the University of Western Ontario. But it’s unclear what caused those increased...

Melancthon Deputy Mayor Darren White’s speech to the NVCA board, January 10, 2014 Good morning everyone.  I have put my name forward today because I believe that we need to make a little course correction as we enter what will be the last year of this ...

The expat-Canadian rock ‘n’ roller’s Sunday Massey Hall gig aims to raise environmental awareness and money for First Nations legal challenge By Ben Rayner Toronto Star  Neil Young kicked off his four-date “Honor the Treaties” tour of...