Federal election issues include right to water and sanitation and CETA (the Canadian European Union TRade Agreement.  BY BRENT PATTERSON Council of Canadians APRIL 16, 2011 Full story on Rabble.ca...

Pour Evian on your radishes by Albert Bates Energy Bulletin April 14 2011 GE’s Japanese Nuclear Disaster is like the BP Gulf Oil Spill of 2010, a slow-moving monster, chewing up rich, diverse, biological ecosystems and leaving a toxic cancer on t...

Millar asks why provincial Tory leader Hudak was also invitedBy Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe April 14 2011Three area Tory MPPs – Garfield Dunlop (Simcoe North), Jim Wilson (Simcoe Grey) and Julia Munro (York Simcoe) - have accepted an invitation from Ward...

Megaquarry: 'Stay out of our neighbour's business' By Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe April 13 2011Concerned about user-pay for curbside garbage bags? Opposed to clear plastic bags? Interested in why the county wants to end heavy garbage pickup?You might wis...

Darlington panel told Darlington panel Fisheries Act may  be rewritten, nuclear industry exempted Krystyn Tully, Waterkeeper.ca Weekly April 11 2011 Some of Canada’s oldest laws are designed to protect fish and fish habitat, cornerstones of our nation’...

AWARE Simcoe April 11 2011  ‘W5’ takes a hard look at the involvement of Ontario’s Special Investigation Unit in the police shooting death of Elmvale’s Doug Minty and poses the question – why has the Ontario Liberal government f...

News release from Zero Waste Simcoe April 11 2011 Citizens have been lead to believe that our responsibility is simply to keep paying the taxesZero Waste Simcoe Board Chair Gord McKay is concerned about the perception in Ontario that garbage is inevita...

Stop the Megaquarry Openpit Mine News release from Danny Beaton April 10 2011 Starting; Earth Day, April 22, 12 pm Queen’s Park at noon Finishing; Dufferin County, Melancthon Township, April 26 Five Day Walk with Native drumming and singing begin...

Stop the Megaquarry Openpit Minenews release from Danny Beaton April 10 2011Starting; Earth Day, April 22, 12 pm Queen's Park at noon - Finishing; Dufferin County, Melancthon Township, April 26 -Five Day Walk with Native drumming and singing beginning ...

Council will make decision, not police board: official By BOB BRUTON – Barrie Examiner April 8 2911 One centrally located Barrie police station is on the city’s radar again. Councillors will consider a motion Monday to begin a three-phase develop...