By Morgan Ian Adams Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin June 6, 2013 COLLINGWOOD — Councillors will debate how to spend the proceeds from the sale of 50% of the municipal utility in another week.That was just one of two items that have been sitting on the ...

From the Midhurst Ratepayers Association June 6 2013 The Midhurst Secondary Plan is a mega-development plan which seeks to turn a small rural village of 3,000 people to a small city of 30,000!  There are many downfalls to this plan that deserve your at...

Tribunal asked to review Ontario decision to drop licence conditions for Guelph-area wellBy Max Paris, Environment Unit, CBC News Jun 3, 2013 Two non-governmental organizations are challenging the Ontario Ministry of the Environment's decision to chang...

New Tecumseth Free Press June 3, 2013 Great Canadian Gaming, which owns Georgian Downs, will be paid $31.5-million from the OLG as compensation for being cut out of the slots revenue-sharing program last year. ...

By The Canadian Press June 4, 2013 OTTAWA - The NDP is introducing another round of private member's bills aimed at restoring environmental protections to lakes and rivers.A first batch of bills introduced in April dealt with protections to what are kn...

By DOUGLAS GLYNN Midland Free Press June 4, 2013 In what Mayor Gordon McKay describes as “a bold statement defining our town’s future,” Midland council has voted to buy the Unimin waterfront lands.In a 7-1 vote at a special meeting Friday, council pass...

By Emily Innes, Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin June 3, 2013 WASAGA BEACH – Water levels in Georgian Bay are low, “so, the question arises: what do we do about it?”About 200 people attended a Restore Our Water International presentation hosted by Sierr...

BY JEFF GRAY AND ADRIAN MORROW The Globe and Mail Jun. 03 2013Ontario’s minority Liberal government is pledging to better protect freedom of speech with legislation that would crack down on spurious lawsuits sometimes filed to silence citizens or envir...

University of Kansas release - posted by AWARE Simcoe June 4 2013Intense deforestation in Mexico could ruin one of North America's most celebrated natural wonders -- the mysterious 3,000-mile migration of the monarch butterfly. According to a Universit...

Ontario Nature, Sierra Club Canada, David Suzuki Foundation and Earthroots, decry Cabinet decision to gut law protecting imperilled wildlifeOntario Nature news release May 31, 2013The provincial Cabinet announced today its approval of sweeping exemptio...