New Tecumseth Free Press February 27, 2013Simcoe County and Georgian Bay region will grow from six to seven ridings, according to latest update from the Ontario Commission studying redistribution of federal electoral boundaries posted this week on its web site.The new riding will encompass Barrie (no...

Former Tory minister lost wrongful dismissal lawsuit, must pay defendants' costsCBC News  Feb 25, 2013An Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered former Conservative MP and minister Helena Guergis to pay $118,560 of the legal costs incurred by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and others in defending the...

Meaford prime example of foreign investment strategyBy:Roberta Avery Toronto Star Jan 18 2013 MEAFORD, ONT.—An investment company with corporate headquarters in Singapore is buying up prime parcels of cottage/ski country real estate and turning them into “land banks” for foreign investors.A2A Capital...

Comments on Canada’s environmental assessment of the TPPBy Stuart Trew Council of Canadians January 30 2013 The Council of Canadians submitted the following comments to the Government of Canada’s request for information on the likely environmental impacts of the 11-country Trans-Pacific Partnership t...

AWARE SIMCOE JANUARY 26 2013The following is the text of the decision by Justices Then, Leitch and Swinton regarding Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's appeal of his conviction under the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act. ...

By Stuart Trew Council of Canadians  January 10th, 2013A senior international law advisor with the International Institute for Sustainable Development is warning Canadians that a new investment treaty with China will make environmental measures more vulnerable to costly investor-state disputes than t...

By Kathy English Toronto Star Public Editor December 07, 2012Canadian Journalists for Free Expression has relatively little challenge in galvanizing journalists in support of free expression: It’s what we passionately believe in, after all.The bigger challenge is to convince you that what we believe ...

AWARE Simcoe November 26 2012 The following is the text of Justice Charles Hackland's decision:...

Letter to the Barrie Examiner November 21 2012Like many in this country, I was born to immigrant parents who came here from Holland after the devastation of the Second World War. My family spent most of the war under the thumb of the Nazi regime. My aunt recalled small acts of daily control, terror a...

 By Robin Mathews Vive Le Canada October 15 2012 The Council of Canadians – whatever else it may be – is a living and breathing declaration of the failure of the parliamentary system in Canada, and, especially, the failure of Canadian political parties in that system.  Let us say at the beginning tha...