From New Tecumseth Free Press Online Thursday January 22 at 7 pm: Organizing meeting for David Suzuki’s Blue Dot Meeting (blue dot.ca) for people interested in advocating for the right for a healthy environment, takes place in the Dermott Room of St. John’s United Church 56 Victoria Stree...
Ontario municipalities could see ramifications from precedent-setting Superior Court decision over use of road salt By Dan Brown, Barbara Simpson, Sarnia Observer A court ruling that awarded more than $100,000 to a Lambton County farmer who claimed road salt caused crop losses could “open the floodga...
By Bill Shotyk My home I live in one half of a reasonably well-insulated, modest 1960 duplex in Old Strathcona. The attic is well insulated, the exterior has a layer of insulation under the siding, and all the windows and doors are new and energy-efficient. There is one furnace for each level of the...
Earthroots says scientists’ comments in 2010 reveal ‘heated debate’ about the mercury impact of clear-cutting on fish and human health By: Raveena Aulakh Toronto Star Ontario’s fisheries biologists were scathing about a guide approved in 2010 that laid out conditions for controversial clear-cut loggi...
AWARE News Network Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO) will host a webinar on January 22 at 1:00pm to highlight his report, Managing New Challenges. In this one-hour session, he will present his perspective and his advice to ministries on several issues in the news this past year...
EcoJustice news release TORONTO- Ecojustice lawyers are in court today challenging an Ontario government regulation that allows major industrial sectors to kill species at-risk and destroy their habitat. The regulation provides broad exemptions from prohibitions in Ontario’s Endangered Species Act (E...
By Jacob Kearey-Moreland Orillia Packet & Times More than 100 nations on Earth recognize the right to live in a healthy environment. Canada does not, yet. The Blue Dot Tour, launched by geneticist and grandfather David Suzuki, seeks to enshrine this right in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, fu...
Letter to the Orillia Packet & Times In the latest incarnation of the Harper government’s absurd conviction that it, and it alone, knows what’s best for the Canadian economy comes the statement that regulating greenhouse gases in the oil and gas sector makes for “crazy economic policy.” Perhaps i...
By David Suzuki I recently travelled across Canada with David Suzuki Foundation staff, from St. John’s to Victoria and up to Yellowknife, joined by friends and allies along the way. Besides our Blue Dot Tour evening events featuring some of Canada’s best-known musicians, writers, artists ...
Grain Farmers of Ontario Delivers United Message to Minister Leal News release from Grain Farmers of Ontario Grain Farmers of Ontario’s commitment to pollinator health and environment stewardship is unyielding. The farm sector will be at the table with government to secure a future for Ontario’s fami...
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