Comment now and make sure your voice is heardAlert from Simcoe Solar Farm Awareness Project July 17 2011Three of the ten proposed Industrial Solar Facility sites by Recurrent Energy have been registered on the Ontario Environmental Registry. We as citi...

BY DECHINTA STUDENTS AND FACULTY Rabble.ca JULY 15, 2011 During their recent tour of Canada, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Blachford Lake Lodge on the traditional and unceded territory of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. The July 5 stopo...

AWARE Simcoe July 15 2011 Following are policy positions taken by AWARE Simcoe at its public meeting in Alliston on June 25 2011 Resolution on mega-quarry WHEREAS the proposed Highlands Companies mega-quarry is unprecedented in size, magnitude and impa...

By GARY MASON Globe and Mail July 15 2011 When Canada’s premiers gather in Vancouver next week, it’s hard to imagine that the subject of trade talks with the European Union won’t come up. The potential ramifications of any deal for the provinces are en...

Truck traffic, air and water quality, need for EA AWARE Simcoe July 15 2011 At least one Simcoe County municipality registered its concerns with the proposed mega-quarry in Melancthon Thownship. New Tecumseth Mayor Mike McEachern sent in a letter last ...

By Tonda MacCharles Toronto Star July 14 2011 OTTAWA—The federal ethics commissioner has ruled former Conservative MP and junior cabinet minister Helena Guergis breached her ethical obligations in 2009 in writing Simcoe municipal officials to promote a...

LETTER TO Simcoe.com July 14 2011 It was recently said that by the time three or four more provincial elections occur, that rural southern Ontario will be unrecognizable. This is because so much of the political will and the bureaucrats exercising that...

Next steps, media coverage, upcomng events etc AWARE Simcoe July 14 2011 This is a link to the current newsletter from the North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Taskforce....

News release from Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus July 13 2011 If the Conservatives get their way, police will be soon be able to track every e-mail sent, every website visited and every comment left on Facebook – all without warrants or judic...

 Letter to the Barrie Examiner July 13 2011 Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of equality, uttered on Aug. 29, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington has left an undeniable influence — indeed a clarion’s call — upon the struggl...