A development in south-end Barrie is shown in a file photo. Ian McInroy for BarrieToday From BarrieToday, December 11, 2021 By BarrieToday Staff The COP26 climate conference in Glasgow acknowledged that we’re in the midst of a climate crisis. The crisis is fuelled by many things: by excess consumeri...
By Keith Brooks, Programs Director, Environmental Defence Canada “Premier Ford: Don’t spend $10 Billion to turn our communities and Greenbelt into asphalt and sprawl” That is the message we need the government to hear. That’s why we took out a full page ad in yesterday’s Toronto Star, endorsed ...
By Jack Gibbons, Chair, Lake Simcoe Watch The Ford government is roaring ahead with its plans to build the Holland Marsh Highway and it is not going to let any concerns about environmental or community impacts stand in its way. We need a federal environmental assessment to protect our health, our lak...
Vidal Bay, Manitoulin Island Archipelago, Ontario. STRIKING BALANCE/HANDOUT From the Globe and Mail December 7, 2021 By IVAN SEMENIUK, SCIENCE REPORTER A large swath of Ontario’s Manitoulin Island will become a permanently protected wilderness area following one of the most significant transfers of C...
A map of the problem at Big Bay Point, showing the province’s NHS in green hatching. The red hatching indicates areas recommended for removal from the NHS in Simcoe County’s map. December 9th, 2021 By Claire Malcolmson, Executive Director, Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition Media statement – Re...
January 15, 2022 at 10:00 AM -11:30 AM VIA ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us OR by telephone: 1 647 558 0588 Webinar ID: 885 1380 8450 Nine years after the defeat of the proposed 2,400 acres 200 feet below the water table Mega Quarry, Melancthon Township, and surrounding communities are once again facing...
From 1961 through to 1985, a small tugboat, the R.A. Hoey, was in service as a passenger ferry and sailed the channel daily between Christian Island and Cedar Point on the mainland.Supplied Photo From OrilliaMatters, Nov 23, 2021 By Jeff Monague It’s November and the winds have shifted and they now ...
The groundwater in Elmvale, Ont., is believed to be the cleanest in the world, but some residents and scientists are worried about the impact of nearby quarries. They are fighting for answers and accountability. 9:08 From CBC News, November 27, 2021 By Ioanna Roumeliotis & Brenda Witmer Bonnie Pa...
From The Council of Canadians, November 16, 2021 TORONTO – The Ontario government announced late yesterday that it is renewing two controversial permits that allow the extraction and bottling of billions of litres of groundwater by Blue Triton Waters, the corporation that bought Nestle’s North Americ...
Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney and Associate Transportation Minister Stan Cho. FACEBOOK From the Toronto Star, November 26, 2021 By Robert Benzie Queen’s Park Bureau Chief Premier Doug Ford has started seeking bids to build sections of the controversial Bradford bypass freeway. Ford...
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