Mill worker confesses to burying 50 gallons with mercury poison upstream from Grassy Narrows From Grassy Narrows Support Last summer Kas Glowaki, a former Dryden mill worker, made a shocking confession. He admitted to participating in the shallow burial of 50 barrels of salt and highly toxic liquid ...
From the Friends of Simcoe County Forest website The Friends of Simcoe County Forest invite you to a BBQ FUNDRAISER, on Wednesday 22 June. They need your help to stop the a new dual organics and waste facility the County has planned on 200 acres of forested land on Horseshoe Valley Road, north of Bar...
From MTM Conservation Association The Second Annual Tiny Marsh BioBlitz will build on the success of the first BioBlitz held last year, with more leaders, more topics and more locations across the Marsh. Early starters who turn out for the 6 am walks will get a chance to see the wonderful variety of...
SSEA Open House from SSEA website Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:00 – 4:00 PM Severn Sound Environmental Association (SSEA) Open House Guest speaker at 2 p.m.: David Phillips, Senior Climatologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, presenting “Tomorrow’s Forecast: warmer, wetter and wilder”. ...
Grassy Narrows: The most toxic community in Canada, says scientist By Barb Nahwegahbow Windspeaker “I would say 100 per cent of our people are poisoned by mercury,” said grandmother Judy Da Silva speaking about her community of Grassy Narrows First Nation. “Some of our people don’t even understand t...
Ottawa, Newmarket, Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg… from 350.org From May 24th-27th, MPs across Canada hosted climate townhalls for their constituents. At every event, the room was packed with hundreds of people speaking up for the People’s Climate Plan. People came out in record-breaking numbers...
Not(tawasaga) Your Average Tree Planting from the Nature Conservancy of Canada Join the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) and the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) to plant trees along the Nottawasaga River in the Minesing Wetlands. Minesing Wetlands (Angus, Ontario) Thursday, May 26,...
By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Plans to dredge the Nottawasaga River are moving ahead. On Thursday, Wasaga Beach council’s coordinated committee received an update on the environmental assessment process that would give the municipality the tool it needed should it decide to go ahead with dredging certain p...
Water, Indigenous rights, Justice for Mercury Survivors From River Run 2016 Thursday, June 2, 12pm, Queen’s Park — Join us for a massive arts-based action to ensure real answers from the provincial government! Over 40 years ago, people in Grassy Narrows were poisoned by mercury from a paper mil...
Response to Crombie report suggests protection of 21 valley, 7 wetlands, setting strict requirements for expansion of urban areas News release from Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing Ontario is proposing changes to four provincial plans that shape how land is used in the Greater Golden Horses...
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