Ending federal oversight of fresh water proves hard for some provinces to swallowThe Canadian Press Mar 21, 2012 Next week’s budget will propose a streamlined environmental assessment process, something that will delight the oil patch and give provinces a larger say over resource development.Re...

By Kristen Smith Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin March 16 2012 BLUE MOUNTAINS – Friends, neighbours, and municipal staff are pitching in, trying to help mitigate damage caused by a mudslide near Alpine Ski Club. Read more    Landslide causes evacuation in The Blue Mountains By Tracey Richardson Owen ...

Posted March 15 2012 Conservatives, Bloc Quebecois combine to defeat private member’s bill to safeguard Canada’s freshwater from the threat of future export to the U.S. and other countries. Statements by Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia  Green Party of Canada release ...

Leaked documents reveal plans to gut habitat-protection provisions, Opposition says The Canadian Press March 14 2012 The federal NDP says it has obtained leaked documents showing the Conservatives are poised to strip the Fisheries Act of habitat-protection provisions — a change that would dramaticall...

Council of Canadians news release March 13 2012 t is becoming clearer from multiple sources that Canada was the country that pushed to have language that explicitly affirmed the United Nations recognized right to water and sanitation removed from the Ministerial Declaration of the World Water Forum –...

By Ellen Moorhouse Toronto Star March 3 2012 Trash Talk delves into some nasty stuff occasionally, but Toronto resident Maureen Reilly has been doing just that almost daily for 15 years. Her subject: sewage and sewage sludge. Read more ...

World is eyeing Canada’s resources – and Harper government is ready to sellBy Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe March 9 2012Canadians should prepare for an unprecedented assault on our resources, Maude Barlow warned on Wednesday.“There’s a free-for-all coming, I feel it,” the chair of the Council of Canadian...

Waters of the World Threatened By Dumping of 180M Tonnes of Toxic TailingsNews release from Earthworks, MiningWatch Canada February 28, 2012WASHINGTON/OTTAWA, Feb.  28 – Each year, mining companies dump more than 180 million tonnes of hazardous mine waste into rivers, lakes, and oceans worldwide....

Filtered, not treated: they wouldn’t have it any other way CTV News February 28 2012 The municipality of Greenwood, known as Canada’s smallest city for its population of just over 700, has been honoured for having the tastiest tap water in the world. Read more...

By Frank Matys Orillia Today Feb 23, 2012  ORILLIA – Lakehead University is laying the groundwork for an environmental research facility in Simcoe County. Read more ...