Wasaga Beach Climate Action Team members are looking for the municipal candidates to respond to three important questions on their commitment to mitigating the town’s impact on climate change. From Simcoe.com, September 19, 2022 By Ian Adams When would-be politicians knock on your door this fal...
Stock photo | Donatello Trisolino via Pexels From BarrieToday, September 8, 2022 A Letter to the Editor The following letter is in response to a story titled ‘Hughes hoping to secure fifth term as Oro-Medonte mayor,’ published Aug. 29. ************************* As for his track record, Ma...
From the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition By Margaret Prophet,Executive Director Our free lunch ‘n learn webinars for municipal candidates are beginning next week. They feature topics that candidates told us were important to them: housing policy, supporting local food systems and protecting ...
Andrea Mandel Campbell, Katherine Holmes, Sharon Carr, Sunny Wiles and Julie Watene are concerned about the future of the Silver Creek Wetlands. | NVCA Image From Simcoe.com, September 6, 2022 By John Edwards The Friends of the Silver Creek have been fighting against development adjacent to the wetla...
One of the fish that was counted during the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority’s fish population survey conducted Aug. 31 in the Nottawasaga River near Loretto. – NVCA photo From Simcoe.com, September 6, 2022 By Brad Pritchard Staff and volunteers with the Nottawasaga Valley Conser...
Stock image From BarrieToday, Sep 7, 2022 Living Green Barrie has announced it will be hosting a mayoral debate on the environment next month. The debate will be moderated by former Ontario environmental commissioner Gord Miller and will be held on Zoom. It is being held in partnership with the Simco...
Bob Bowles has been studying the tributaries in the Inch Farm area and documenting what he has discovered. Above are two creek chub and one brook stickleback from the south tributary from Aug. 19. | Supplied Photo From OrilliaMatters, September 3, 2022 By Bob Bowles The following is a guest column by...
Oro Moraine: One click to Protect the moraine A smaller cousin of the Oak Ridges Moraine in Simcoe County, the ORO MORAINE needs your HELP!!! ITS WATERS (including the DRINKING WATER for all of ORO-MEDONTE TOWNSHIP and beyond), WETLANDS, FORESTS and FARMLANDS are SEVERELY THREATENED BY HUGE DEVELOPME...
From Ecojustice By Danielle Gallant, Lawyer We’re in the final stretch. As you read this, our legal team is finalizing the oral arguments we’ll make in the historic Mathur et. al. v. Her Majesty in right of Ontario lawsuit. From September 12–14, we’ll be in court and schooling the Ontario government ...
Ontario’s Countryside (Photo by Sveta Fedarava on Unsplash) This article was originally written for the Greenbelt Foundation and published on their website. Please visit www.greenbelt.ca for more information. August 30th, 2022 By Martin Straathof When I began my master’s in Rural Planning and D...
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