This photograph shows a view toward the Inch Farm property, which is slated for development, from Uhthoff Line. | Nathan Taylor/OrilliaMatters From OrilliaMatters, February 17, 2022 A Letter to the Editor Many Orillia residents and previous contributor...

Holland Marsh | Bert Duclos Photo From OrilliaMatters, February 17, 2022 By Natasha Philpott The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada announced last week it will not revisit its decision to deny a Federal Impact Assessment designation for the Bradford By...

Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux is Lakehead University’s chair on truth and reconciliation. From OrilliaMatters, February 17, 2022 By OrilliaMatters Staff Lakehead University is launching a community-based education series to support those seeking to understa...

Steel pipe to be used in the oil pipeline construction of the Canadian government’s Trans Mountain Expansion Project lies at a stockpile site in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada June 18, 2019. REUTERS/Dennis Owen This morning we received some huge ne...

By Peter McCartney, Climate Campaigner, Wilderness Committee Feds quit funding pipeline as costs soar to $21.4B For the first time in a long time, I’ve got good news to share about Trans Mountain. Today, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the...

An Equinor project in the Tampen area of the North Sea. | Equinor/Bo B. Randulff & Even Kleppa By Conor Curtis, Digital Communications Coordinator, Sierra Club Canada Foundation Right now the Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and the Federal C...

By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance Energy Minister Todd Smith’s proposal to establish a lower overnight electricity rate for electric vehicle charging will reward Ontario families that purchase electric cars and pick-up truc...

By Joan Mizzi-Fry, Ramara Legacy Alliance 11,000 video taped reasons to stop a new quarry, OLT hearing starts February 22, 2022 RAMARA, ON – On Tuesday, February 22, 2022, the Ontario Land Tribunal will convene via video a land use hearing to eva...

Bob Bowles is an award-winning writer, artist, photographer and naturalist and the founder and co-ordinator of the Ontario master naturalist certificate program at Lakehead University.  | METROLAND FILE PHOTO From the Toronto Star, February 13, 2022 By...

From Return of the Native, December 30, 2021 By Kate Harries I requested this book for Christmas after hearing the author interviewed on CBC Radio’s The Current. Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs and the Improbable World of Peat is by Edward Str...