I don’t get it! Environmental Conundrums From Midland Cultural Centre Loved by audiences across Canada for making complex scientific issues understandable, meaningful, and fun, Bob McDonald is in high demand. A fixture in broadcasting for more than 30 years, he is currently the host of CBC Radi...
How endangered Little Brown Bats and Blanding’s Turtles stalled another wind-turbine project in Prince Edward County By: Jim Coyle Toronto Star Blessed are the small and humble, for they, it seems, shall halt wind turbines. In the latest instalment of the epic machine vs. nature struggle being ...
Delegation of indigenous Canadians presenting its case in Geneva for safe drinking water for community first poisoned in the 1960s By Jim Coyle Toronto Star By any measure, it’s a long way from Grassy Narrows First Nation in northern Ontario to a United Nations proceeding in Geneva. But Judy Da Silva...
from the Alliance to Protect Prince Edward County AWARE News Network Dear APPEC supporters, We are pleased to announce that APPEC’s appeal of wpd’s White Pines Wind Project has been upheld in part. The Tribunal has found that the White Pines project will cause serious and irreversible ha...
Cancer claims retiree charged with mischief in 2009 protest By Travis Mealing Midland Mirror TINY TOWNSHIP – One of the most respected opponents of the notorious Site 41 landfill proposal has died. Keith Edwin Wood was charged with public mischief alongside his wife, Ina, in August 2009. They were am...
Conservation Authority advises against approval of condominium development By Kate Harries AWARE News Network The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority has advised Simcoe County that a proposed 80-unit condominium development on Strawberry Island violates provisions of the Lake Simcoe Protection ...
Government Operations Centre comes under privacy office scrutiny over monitoring of peaceful protests, academic panels By Alex Boutilier Toronto Star OTTAWA—Canada’s privacy watchdog wants more information on a central government agency keeping tabs on peaceful protests. Documents obtained by the Sta...
-Financial Post photo Nine years ago the government of Ontario vowed to plant 50 million trees in southern Ontario by 2020. It has fallen far short of its goal Peter Kuitenbrouwer Financial Post Anybody want a tree? Nine years ago the government of Ontario vowed to plant 50 million trees in southern ...
By Mehreen Shahid, Orillia Packet & Times A Canadian women’s university will honour a local teen in April, and a Hollywood star will make the presentation. Maya Burhanpurkar, 16, of Oro-Medonte Township, will be honoured with the Emerging Award by University College Brescia in April. The aw...
Does New Tecumseth care about pollution and climate change? Letter from Elaine Stephenson, Tiny Township I would like to share an exchange my husband and I had with the Town of New Tecumseth recently. On January 8, 2016, CTV Barrie News reported that Alliston was planning a community bonfire burning ...
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