CELA news releasr Sep 17 2013Over twenty-five environmental groups will ask the federal Joint Review Panel today to suspend the hearings assessing Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) radioactive waste dump proposal until the company clarifies the actual v...

Government announces plan of action, seeks public input by December 12 Health Canada news advisory - Sept. 13, 2013 - Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has determined that current agricultural practices related to the use of neon...

Bones of First Nation’s ancestors that had spent decades in boxes at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Heritage Trust are re-interred at a heritage site near VaughanBy Jane Gerster Toronto Star Sep 14 2013 There was no bitterness and no anger, ...

From the North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance September 13 2013 The North Gwillimbury Alliance needs your help to persuade the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority to repeal the Maple Lake Estates Loophole at its September 27th board meeting. Join ch...

From the North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance September 13 2013The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority’s (LSRCA) Watershed Development Policy 11.4.1.2 — a.k.a., the Maple Lake Estates Loophole  — provides automatic approval for development in regist...

By Gary French Springwater News September 12 2013The recent developments in Springwater Township council seem to me to be leading this township in the wrong direction. ...

*Don’t miss Sept 16 Council or the Sept 17 Special Midhurst Meetings.*Letter to the Springwater News September 12 2013I really appreciated the letter from Margaret Prophet from Midhurst in the last edition of SN. Her concern for costs and long term imp...

New regulation permits industry to ignore Act’s main purposesOntario Nature news release September 10, 2013TORONTO—Environmental groups are suing the Ontario government for its decision to exempt major threats to species at risk from the province’sEnda...

By Rob O’Flanagan The Record August 30 2013ELORA — During a public forum Wednesday, a relatively new class of pesticides with difficult to pronounce names like clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam were singled out as the likely culprit behind t...

By Roger Klein, CTV Barrie September 10, 2013  Colonies of bees are dying off in massive numbers, all across the province.Federal inspectors are in Grey County this week, getting a first-hand look. Pesticides are being blamed, a ban isn't likely. Honey...