By Maija Hoggett Simcoe.com May 31, 2011  NEW TECUMSETH – Two months after being fired, former New Tecumseth clerk Gayla McDonald is suing the town and its Mayor Mike MacEachern for $600,000, Alliston attorney Kevin Kemp is representing McDonald,...

By MARG. BRUINEMAN – BARRIE EXAMINER June 1 2011 Barrie Central Collegiate has been thrown a lifeline. The school board has until Sept. 30, 2014 to come up with a partnership plan. If a plan doesn’t develop the school will close June 30, 20...

ACTION ALERT from Grassy Narrows Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek May 31 2011Grassy Narrows grassroots women are blocking the MNR from accessing their territory right now!Call the MNR Kenora office to express your support: (807) 468-2501...

But Anishinabe trustee Jeff Monague is opposed – it’s a racial slur  By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance May 31, 2011 ANGUS – The name of the Simcoe County District School Board’s newest high school shows those who write the history books rule on...

Nuclear power: Should Canada follow Germany’s lead? CBC May 30 2011  Scroll down and vote Germany will shut down all of the country’s nuclear reactors by 2022, according to a plan adopted early Monday.  Read more...

Public meeting The fate of Barrie Central Collegiate presented tonight 6 p.m. at the school board office in Midhurst. ARC (Accommodation Review Committee) present which of eight inter-related recommendations will be considered.   By MARG. BRUINEMAN, BA...

Policy makers wary of dealing with issue  By FELICITY BARRINGER New York Times IRVINE, Calif. — Scientists have been using small variations in the Earth’s gravity to identify trouble spots around the globe where people are making unsustainable demands ...

Learning From Japan’s Nuclear Disaster by Amory B. Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute March 18, 2011 As heroic workers and soldiers strive to save stricken Japan from a new horror—radioactive fallout—some truths known for 40 years bear repeating. An...

By Peter Tabuns MPP Town Crier May 19 It’s not every day that I write about small potato-growing communities.  But then it is not every day that companies arrive from the States to dig out millions of tons of limestone, and in the process, pump hundred...

Of interest: Green Heroes- on TV  Did you see the Ladies of the Lake episode on Nov.9, 2010? If you missed it go to http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?videoid?65823550500...