By Cheryl Browne, Barrie Examiner February 13 2012 Wireless sensitivity is like a peanut allergy you can’t see. For the people who have it, it’s hell. But for everybody else, you’re just ruining a really good sandwich. Read more  CBC ...

By Laurie Watt, Leigh Blenkhorn, Frank Matys, Brad Pritchard, Bruce Hain and Nicole Million Barrie Advance Feb 14, 2012  SIMCOE COUNTY – From 1851 to 2011, population in rural areas has been on the decline. According to Statistics Canada there ha...

“On a finite planet you cannot have an economy based on or requiring growth” By Derrick Jensen The Occupied Wall Street Journal 12 February, 2012 We hold these truths to be self-evident: That the real, physical world is the source of our ow...

But population going down: resident looking for budget informationLetter to The Council of Clearview, February 12, 2012I am concerned about the rising costs and chatting with a neighbour. Somebody pointed out to me some budget information located here ...

McGuinty Government Creating Waste Diversion System That Protects Consumers Ontario government news release February 9 2012 Ontario is creating an action plan for diverting waste from landfills and keeping harmful chemicals out of our communities while...

By KIM MACKRAEL AND SEAN SILCOFF Globe and Mail Feb 9 2012 Ontario’s Environment Minister has ordered a sweeping review of the body that oversees hazardous waste recycling in the province, including an examination of Stewardship Ontario’s finances and ...

Letter to the Barrie Examiner February 11 2012 Both Premier Dalton McGuinty and Environment Minister Jim Bradley have been repeatedly quoted as saying that the setback requirements in Ontario are ‘some of the toughest in the world’ and R...

China has pledged $2 billion to build Northern Gateway pipeline By David McLaren It was a text-book case of misdirection.Like snake-oil salesmen of old warming up their marks with a shell game, Prime Minister Harper and Joe Oliver accused radical envir...

Unsustainable Consumption  Huffington Post January 2012 From Jim Harris report at Davos World Economic Forum: I feel like someone on the sinking Titanic while the band played on. Few participants that I have talked to understand the depth of threats th...

By JOHN ALLEMANG Globe and Mail February 10 2012 Here he comes, the embodiment of Joe Oliver’s worst nightmares. Bobby Kennedy is running late, a morning-after effect the environmental movement has learned to expect from a celebrity speaker who d...