Bid to reduce expense by 50 per cent quashed By Nicole Million Midland Mirror Feb 22, 2012 MIDLAND – Midland will pay the Southern Georgian Bay Chamber of Commerce a little more than $40,000 to continue providing tourism services for the town, even tho...

Conservation authority prepares strategies for next few years By Amanda Persico My Kawartha Feb 21, 2012  (DURHAM REGION) The area conservation authority aims to protect a key resource – drinking water — as development intensifies along mos...

Construction of a new BWG Leisure Centre began in April, 2010 By Miriam King Bradford Times February 16 2012 Twenty-one months later, on February 3, “we actually achieved occupancy,” Architect Gerry Pilon told a meeting of the BWG Facilities Committee ...

Speculation about a showdown at Good Roads convention By JIM MERRIAM London Free Press Saturday, February 18, 2012 Municipal council members throughout rural Ontario are deciding whether or not to turn their backs on Premier Dalton McGuinty later this ...

Rural Voices Network launches the 'Let your voice be heard' News release from Rural Voices Network- February 15, 2012 Guelph – Your Voice is important to rural Ontario!  This truth is the basis for the participant driven survey distributed to over 10,0...

AWARE Simcoe - posted Feb. 20 2012The Midhurst Ratepayers Association holds in Annual General Meets at the Midhurst Community Centre (74 Doran Road) next Wednesday,  February 22nd at 7:00 pm. ...

County information centre 4-7 pm Tuesday Feb 21 at Creemore Arena By Brad Holden Creemore Echo Feb 10 2012With the release of its Environmental Assessment Report on the subject last week, Simcoe County has asserted its position that the best solution f...

News release from  Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment abd other groups - February 20, 2012Vancouver – Leading public health physicians, environmental lawyers and academics warned today against haphazard federal attempts to undermine...

By Mary Ormsby Toronto Star Feb 18 2012It was a theft that also highlighted the vulnerability of the Ontario snapping turtle, a popular target of poachers and a creature at the hub of a hunters-versus-protectionists debate: the ancient, armoured snappi...

Council of Canadians blog February 16 2012Toronto’s executive committee has voted to endorse the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) seven principles for the Federal Government to apply to the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic ...