By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance With Ontario once again threatening to derail Canada’s efforts to address the growing threat from climate change, it’s time for the federal government to make it clear that every province needs to do its share to prevent a climate c...
Stock image | Photo by Rodolfo Quirós via Pexels From OrilliaMatters, November 21, 2021 A Letter to the Editor The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and our allies are engaged in municipal comprehensive review (MCR) processes across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). What is different about Sim...
Art Janse Pumping Station, proposed site of the Holland Marsh Phosphorus Recycling Facility, September 2021. From BarrieToday, January 3, 2022 A Letter to the Editor I am a resident of Rushton Road in the Willow Beach hamlet in the Town of Georgina. I am a senior environmental health and safety scien...
Stock image | Photo by picjumbo.com from Pexels From OrilliaMatters, December 17, 2021 A Letter to the Editor I have often pondered over many years as to what our world would be like without the blunders, corruption, the stupidity, the lying, the manipulation, the greed, the lack of transparency, the...
Mayor Stewart Strathearn From Simcoe.com, December 20, 2021 By Andrew Mendle An additional 150 people and the loss of more than 1,000 jobs. Those are the latest numbers being allocated to the town of Midland between 2031 and 2051. Mayor Stewart Strathearn is dumbfounded by the latest growth allocatio...
(Brent Calver/Western Wheel) From MidlandToday, December 21, 2021 Letter to the editor Dear Editor, Councillor Wishart of Tiny Township is spot on when he says: “This whole thing is happening in the wrong place in the world.” Aggregate mining in this particular environmentally critical area is reckle...
A protest against the Bradford Bypass protest is shown in a file photo.Natasha Philpott/BradfordToday From BarrieToday, December 18, 2021 By Joseph Quigley Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition executive director Claire Malcolmson says she’s happy about the headway her organization has made in the fight...
By Alienor Rougeot, Program Manager, Climate & Energy, Environmental Defence Tailings lakes are large industry-created reservoirs that contain wastewater from oil production. For decades, oil companies have been prohibited from releasing tailings into the environment because they are toxic, harmf...
This file photo shows a swath cut through a wetland near the Orillia Rama Regional Airport, part of which is shown in the background.Bob Bowles | Supplied photo From OrilliaMatters, December 14, 2021 By Nathan Taylor Ramara council members are still not sold on the divesting of a road allowance near ...
The lands that are part of the river valleys running south off the Oak Ridges Moraine are known as the “Greenbelt fingers,” Victor Doyle writes. STEVE SOMERVILLE / METROLAND FILE PHOTO From the Toronto Star, December 12, 2021 By Victor Doyle Toronto Star York Region’s decision to open up 1,400 acres...
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