Doug Ford is trying to play us for fools. Last week, he released ads doubling down on his plan to pave through our Greenbelt to build mega-Highway 413. [1] But Highway 413 would cause significant environmental damage, degrade the water source of millions of animals and people and cost Ontarians billi...
Photo by Luigi Alvarez via Pexels From BarrieToday, October 26, 2021 The provincial conservative government has decided to prioritize highway proposals like the 413 and the ‘Holland Marsh Highway’ in their re-election campaign as a means of addressing the pressing issue of gridlock around...
Midhurst, ON: Through a petition released by Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition (SCGC) and sent formally to the County of Simcoe, hundreds of residents have expressed their desire to stop sprawl and build healthy, sustainable communities across the region. Currently, the County of Simcoe is completin...
Photos by Cole Burtson Le Devoir Bonnie Pauzé examines the water from a well near her home. The water in Tiny Township, Ontario is exceptionally pure. From Le Devoir, October 16, 2021 By Étienne Lajoie “We live on Earth, it provides us with what we need. But then we started removing parts from the sp...
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 From Simcoe.com, October 17, 2021 By Bob Bowles We are moving every day toward a climate crisis. Loss of biodiversity...
Minister of Transportation Caroline Mulroney in front of one of the new signs along the proposed route for the Bradford bypass. She is defending her government’s decision to forego an environmental assessment. From BarrieToday, October 12, 2021 By Jackie Kozak A decision announced late Friday b...
From BradfordToday, October 12, 2021 By Julie Johnson ‘All leaders need to check their presumption that what happens to the ecology in Innisfil or Bradford or Toronto doesn’t need to matter to the rest of us,’ reader says The IPCC report on climate came out only a few months ago, telling ...
From BarrieToday, October 9, 2021 By Ecojustice Decision removes important environmental impact scrutiny and public consultation TORONTO — Traditional territories of several First Nations including the Williams Treaties First Nations, Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewas, and the M...
York-Simcoe MPP Caroline Mulroney, mayors Rob Keffer, Virginia Hackson, and Margaret Quirk in a photo from 2019. Jenni Dunning/BradfordToday From BarrieToday, October 8, 2021 By Natasha Philpott ‘This project is of great importance as we need to be reducing the phosphorus load into Lake Simcoe....
The Collingwood water treatment plant is located at Sunset Point. From OrilliaMatters, October 7, 2021 By Jessica Owen ‘We have been pushed too hard by top-down planning that has set arbitrary targets,’ said Collingwood resident Ulli Rath during County of Simcoe’s municipal comprehensive ...
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