County to provide service previously handled by town By Nikki Million-Cole Midland Mirror September 12 2012  MIDLAND – Midland councillors are displeased with changes to waste collection that will be implemented by the County of Simcoe in the spring. R...

By Sandy Agnew AWARE News Network September 27 2012 Updated with voteSimcoe County Council voted 16 to 11 not to hold public information sessions to explain the new Amended Official Plan to the public. Penetanguishene Mayor Gerry Marshall moved an amen...

Eleanor Rath dismissed after six years at town hall By Nikki Million-Cole Midand Mirror Sep 18, 2012  PENETANGUISHENE – Eleanor Rath, the Town of Penetanguishene’s CAO for the past six years, has been fired by the municipality. News of Rath’s dep...

5th Line interchange: Keffer, Lamb only ones to vote against proceedingBy Meade Helman AWARE News Network September 20 2012Always interesting things at the BWGF council meeting.1.      Ainley Consultants presented a report, “Conceptual Design of Hollan...

ECO News release September 19, 2012Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner says officials in the provincial government are defying the will of the Legislature and ignoring the public’s right to be involved in the development of environmental policy....

By Catherine Porter Toronto Star September 19, 2012The maples on Georgian Bay are already changing. It’s almost time to say goodbye for another year.Since my parents bought a scrap of land on a big island when I was a baby, I’ve squeezed every possible...

By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance Sep 19, 2012  BARRIE – The state-of-the-art data centre on Bayview Drive is bringing Ontario’s economic development minister, IBM Canada president and IBM clients to Barrie Friday morning. Brad Duguid will join Barri...

By Richard J. Brennan Toronto Star September 18, 2012Low water levels across the Great Lakes are playing havoc with boaters and forcing commercial ships to lighten their loads. Pleasure boaters on Lake Erie are “playing Russian roulette” when they vent...

By James P. Bruce and Chris Wood Toronto Star September 16 2012This month in Washington, Environment Minister Peter Kent and Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, initialed a third renewal of a 40-year old agreeme...

By Edward Hill - Victoria News  September 14, 2012 A leading Canadian climate scientist today slammed the search for the long-lost 1845 Franklin Expedition as a veiled front for future oil and gas extraction in the high Arctic.Andrew Weaver, a professo...