By James P. Bruce and Chris Wood Toronto Star September 16 2012This month in Washington, Environment Minister Peter Kent and Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, initialed a third renewal of a 40-year old agreement between Canada and the United States to “resto...

By KIM MACKRAEL The Globe and Mail August 25 2012WAUBAUSHENE, ONT. - Jim Thomas has given up on using the 15-foot sailboats he keeps propped against the dock behind his cottage. In the 12 years since he and his wife, Pat, bought a bungalow on the edge of Georgian Bay, they’ve watched their shoreline ...

News release from Sierra Club Canada August 9 2012The International Joint Commission may be intending to allow water levels in Lake Huron and Georgian Bay to drop by more than 1.25 metres (4 feet) below current levels that are already at historically low threatening shoreline wetlands, navigation and...

Ontario government news release July 24 2012Ontario is launching a new initiative to help communities protect their part of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Guardian Community Fund provides grants to community groups for grassroots activities such as cleaning up a beach or shoreline, restoring a wetl...

by DOUGLAS GLYNN Midland Free Press July 19, 2012The International Joint Commission (IJC) was told Monday that a “do nothing” approach to restore the water levels of Lakes Michigan-Huron and Georgian Bay is unacceptable.Simcoe North MP Bruce Stanton joined Great Lakes advocate Mary Muter of the Sierr...

Politicians, scientists, activists, citizens urge action on Upper Great Lakes water levelsBy Kate Harries AWARE News Network July 19 2012MIDLAND – People care about water. There’s a visceral understanding of how important it is.We saw that in the Dump Site 41 battle, and we saw it again Monday night,...

‘We have already lost one-quarter of the submerged habitat in wetlands since the 1990s’ AWARE News Network July 19 2012 The following are notes or text of five presentations made to the July 16 meeting of the International Joint Commission in Midland.  Bruce Stanton MP Simcoe North  George Lawrence, ...

By Morgan Ian Adams, Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin July 18 2012COLLINGWOOD — For a brief moment, it appeared as though this public meeting was about to get out of hand.About two-thirds of the way into its hearing and with about 300 people crammed into the ballroom at the Bear Estate on Tuesday — ma...

From Mary Muter: presentation to public meeting International Joint Commission July 16 2012  Chairs Comuzzi and Pollack, Commissioners Knott, Glance and Moy, As you are aware, I am the Great Lakes Section Chair for Sierra Club Ontario and acting Co-chair of the Bi-national Great Lakes Coordinating Co...

From Dr. Pat Chow-Fraser, Professor and Director of Life Sciences, McMaster University, Department of Biology, Hamilton, ON – presentation to public meeting  International Joint Commission July 16 2012 I am speaking on behalf of those organisms that cannot speak:  the fish, the turtles, the fro...