Here’s an offer you can’t refuse from The Ontario Clean Air Alliance What if you could save up to $1,000 per year or more on the cost of heating and cooling your home while helping the planet? Sounds too good to be true? Well our new analysis of the economic benefits of heat pumps shows […]...
How amazing is this — scientists have discovered mushrooms that can devour plastic waste in a matter of weeks…plastic that would otherwise remain in the ocean forever. Right now 91% of the plastics we use can’t be recycled, and every minute another truckload is dumped into the ocean, suff...
From Barrie Today, Letter to the Editor, October 25, 2023 ‘It boggles my mind why so many Canadians do not use the readily provided containers,’ letter writer says of litterbugs On Sunday, Oct. 15, the Barrie Garden Club ventured out on a dark, dreary, and drizzly day to pick up litter al...
Innisfil Mayor Lynn Dollin. Barrie Today, by Patrick Bales, October 27, 2023 Lynn Dollin says town wants to meet its provincial housing targets, but she’d rather work collaboratively with council to make it happen Innisfil has committed to building 6,300 new homes by 2031, but Mayor Lynn Dollin...
Letter to the Editor, October 29, 2023 Like proposed Bradford Bypass and 404-Highway 12 extensions, Highway 413 will destroy forests, wetlands, and imperil livelihoods of First Nations and farmers, says letter writer Doug Ford is sorry and wants to forever protect the Greenbelt? Then why is he still ...
An overhead view of the fall colours in the Ardagh Bluffs Photo supplied From Barrie Today Staff, October 26 NEWS RELEASE THE CITY OF BARRIE ‘This initiative is a groundbreaking step towards preserving our natural environment and enhancing our urban landscape,’ says Mayor Alex Nuttall Bar...
ALLIANCE FOR A LIVEABLE ONTARIO What a week! On Monday morning, we won another important battle against urban sprawl and took another step towards building a liveable Ontario! Paul Calandra, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, announced the government will reverse its decision to force municip...
Springwater Township Mayor Jennifer Coughlin. From Barrie Today, Wayne Doyle, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Oct 20, 2023 ‘This isn’t leaving the NVCA, it’s reverting back to where it was in 1999,’ says mayor. A lack of accountability and inadequate service levels. Those are the two...
High water levels are shown in Brentwood.Photo supplied by the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority From Barrie Today, by Ben Krul, October 17, 2023 ‘The biggest climate change-related threats to development are precipitation and wildfires,’ conservation authority official explains T...
Around 100 people gathered out front of Simcoe North MPP Jill Dunlop’s office earlier this year to protest the Ford government and Greenbelt scandal. Tyler Evans/OrilliaMatters File Photo There was a vacuum of leadership from local and provincial elected officials that was filled by passionate ...
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