Kerry Ann Charles-Norris photo From Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and Cambium Indigenous Professional Services It used to be that Provincially Significant Wetlands were protected from site alteration and development, full stop. No more is that the case as the Province of Ontario breaks its own rules, ...
Duffins Creek Ontario government issued a Ministerial Zoning Order for an unlawful development that endangers the protected Lower Duffins Creek wetland complex News release from Environmental Defence Environmental groups are taking the Ontario government to court over its unlawful use of a Ministeria...
Former Grand Chief Max Gros-Louis News release from the Conseil de la Nation huronne-wendat Nov 14, 2020 It is with sorrow and great sadness that we have just learned of the death of the former Grand Chief of the Huron-Wendat Nation, Mr. Max “One Onti” Gros-Louis. Our first words are addr...
Young Ontarian clients -David LeBlanc photo The Applicants in the case, 7 young people, are arguing that the Ford government’s climate policy, which weakened Ontario’s climate targets in 2018, violates their Charter-protected rights to life, liberty, and security of the person. from the National Unio...
A woodland caribou calf pictured in Quebec in 2017. Advocates say woodland caribou could be impacted by the Ontario government’s move to exempt forestry companies from endangered species law. Wikimedia Commons photo By Emma McIntosh National Observer The Ontario government is attempting to make...
Letter from AWARE Simcoe chair Don Morgan to MPPs Jill Dunlop, Doug Downey, Andrea Khanjin and others Many residents who live in the area of Lake Simcoe and are affected directly or indirectly with the health of the lake and the watershed are wondering what is going on with the Lake Simcoe Protection...
Robin Wall Kimmerer What Does the Earth Ask of Us? From the Queen’s University Biological Station Webinar with Robin Wall Kimmerer Distinguished Professor of Environmental Biology at State University of New York (SUNY),and award-winning author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Kno...
Justice Michael Manson From the David Suzuki Foundation VANCOUVER – A Federal Court judge ruled that the Canadian government will not go on trial under his watch for its contributions to climate change, with youth plaintiffs in La Rose v. Her Majesty the Queen notified today that they must first take...
Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda The Afro-descendant and Indigenous Garifuna community of Honduras continues to demand the safe return of the five members of their community abducted by armed men dressed in police and military uniforms in July From Peoples Dispatch October 26 marked the 100th day since...
AWARE News Network The AWARE Simcoe board of directors has adopted the following statement: AWARE Simcoe recognizes that the injustices experienced by people of colour in our communities are a result of white privilege and are a legacy of North America’s history of colonialism and slavery. Our organ...
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