From Jack Gibbons
North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance Today the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) board of directors decided to delay making a decision on our request that it repeal the Maple Lake Estates (MLE) Loophole, until after the October 2014 municipal elections. This needless d...
AWARE Simcoe news release AWARE Simcoe is calling on Ontario to plan for finite, sustainable communities. The underlying assumption of the current planning regime is one of perpetual growth, with no community ever deemed to be complete, no level of population ever enough. “In our view this assumption...
Patrick Lane’s Convocation Address
– University of Victoria –
November 13, 2013
It is sixty-five years ago, you’re ten years old and sitting on an old, half-blind, grey horse. All you have is a saddle blanket and a rope for reins as you watch a pack of dogs rage at the foot of a Ponde...
News release from Camp Nibi Springwater Provincial Park – renamed Camp Nibi by a group of First Nations women who have occupied it for nine months – is to be a partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Beausoleil First Nation. Beausoleil First Nation and the Ontario Ministry of N...
AWARE News Network December 20 2013 Brian Smith, a student in ecosystem management at Fleming College, Linday, started a Facebook page two days ago called Canadians for Environmental Responsibility. It’s intended to highlight issues seldom heard about in the mainstream media. As an example his first ...
Photo: MIdhurst Ratepayer Association president David Strachan, Barrie Councillor Alex Nuttal, Aidan Grove-White of Environmental Defence,and the MRA’s Sandy Buxton at meeting on sprawl By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Everyone pays lip service to the mantra that growth must pay for growth, b...
We’ve been busy By Kate Harries AWARE News Network It’s been a month almost to the day since the AWARE website was hacked and taken off-line – and we know how much you’ve missed it. Now we’re back, with a new design, better security and many updated features we hope you will find useful i...
Letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne from Beth Brass Elson I am writing on behalf of Springwater Park – Camp Nibi. My name is Elizabeth Brass Elson and I and many other traditional/spiritual natives and non-native people have been participating in ceremony and teachings on the Provincial Park land...
Why Springwater doesn’t need any share of it for Midhurst By Kate Harries and David Strachan AWARE News Network As the county’s amended Official Plan inches its way through the Ontario Municipal Board process, Simcoe County’s lawyers have their eye on one important prize. The county has to have...
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