Rebuttal of Mayor Linda Collins’ comments on the Midhurst Secondary Plan By David Strachan – Midhurst resident Thank you, Madame Mayor, for your insight into the Township’s plans for growth in Midhurst. (Springwater News, May 8). I believe that you genuinely “would like to get it right’, ...
Community control over planning a long-standing priority for NDP candidate News release from Ontario NDP York-Simcoe Ontario NDP Candidate for York-Simcoe Laura Bowman is committing to working with the community in South Simcoe to implement the ‘Vision for Simcoe County’ that residents of...
Outspoken, original and passionate in his defence of mother earth and all her creatures, Farley Mowat never shied away from controversy. He died yesterday at the age of 92 at his Port Hope home. He will be missed. Statement from Elizabeeth May “When someone you love dies, it is not possible to begi...
“Backroom deal” comment draws reproof By Kate Harries AWARE News Network The Ontario Municipal Board has approved 12,000 of the 20,000 “bonus” population that the Liberal government gave Simcoe County under Amendment 1 to the Greater Golden Horseshoe Growth Plan. Members of AWARE Simcoe and ot...
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this post, MRA president Sandy Buxton was incorrectly quoted as saying that Springwater is being “sued” by developers. The wording she used in her letter (full text below) is that the MSP developers have taken Springwater to the OMB. The introduction ...
From Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition Scientists suggest that 40% of the watershed be permanently in “high quality natural cover”. But now only about 35% of the watershed is in natural cover (high quality or not) and very little of that is truly protected. Oro-Medonte’s Official Plan is currently being ...
OMB told Barrie wants traffic study, water budget; NVCA considers summer hearing ‘premature’ By Kate Harries The importance of the “Special Rule” that then Infrastructure Minister Bob Chiarelli brought in to make the Midhurst Secondary Plan legal was spelled out by a lawyer at an Ontario Municipal Bo...
From MegaQuarry News We don’t normally send you an update at the start of the week, but the Public Meeting deserves a special bulletin! Despite a spring snowstorm that shut down local roads, about 200 people packed into the Centre Dufferin Recreation Complex in Shelburne to learn more about Ont...
by Angela Bischoff for the Ontario Clean Air Alliance Despite promising to put “Conservation First” the Wynne Government’s new conservation plan once again treats low-cost efficiency improvements as an afterthought. In its new conservation strategy, the government is capping the savings to be genera...
From Mary Muter,
Chair, Great Lakes Section,
Sierra Club Canada Foundation The US Army Corps of Engineers recently released a report on options to prevent the very invasive Asian Carp from getting into Great Lakes and all connecting waterways and lakes. To learn more about these fish, please watch ...
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