By Roberta Bell, Orillia Packet & Times Lakehead University has launched a project to study the quality of the water in Lake Couchiching. There isn’t as much research on Lake Couchiching as there is on the nearby and more polluted Lake Simcoe, said Sree Kurissery, the environmental microbi...
Ontario’s 1st Zero Waste Conference was held at Orillia’s Lakehead University last summer. One of the outcomes from the Conference was a list of action items that attendees requested be forwarded to the province to encourage policy changes that will help reduce waste in Ontario. Gord Joy...
By Jacob Kearey-Moreland Orillia Packet & Times More than 100 nations on Earth recognize the right to live in a healthy environment. Canada does not, yet. The Blue Dot Tour, launched by geneticist and grandfather David Suzuki, seeks to enshrine this right in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, fu...
By Frank Matys Orillia Today Suzanne Craig will be re-appointed as the city’s closed-meeting investigator. Craig, who additionally serves as Orillia’s integrity commissioner, was first appointed closed-meeting investigator in 2013. Staff noted that any individual can request an investigation to deter...
By Dave Dawson Orillia Packet & Times For the first time in recent memory — perhaps ever — not a single incumbent was re-elected to Orillia city council. “I think it’s a reflection of the angst the last council created in our community,” Ted Emond, a former mayor who was elected to council in Wa...
Across Simcoe County, voters make clear they want change By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Updated October 29, 2014 Anti-sprawl candidates have swept to office in two battleground municipalities in Simcoe County. Not even a message from Premier Kathleen Wynne could save the pro-development incumbent...
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