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Aug 8th, 2021
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By the Cheif Directors of the Simcoe County Environmental Youth Alliance Are you passionate about climate justice? Do you live in or around Barrie, and want to see your city changed for the better? Do you want to support a group of ambitious youth? Learn more and get involved with SCEYA’s Imagine Bar...
Aug 7th, 2021
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The youth show their opposition to the proposed Bradford Bypass By Claire Malcolmson, Executive Director of the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition We hope that you too are enjoying all that Lake Simcoe gives us this summer – a place to greet and play with loved ones outside and enjoy wildlife viewing...
In Energy
Aug 7th, 2021
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Line 5 By Michelle Woodhouse, Program Manager for Water at Environmental Defence Did you know, a 68-year-old pipeline lies in the heart of the Great Lakes? Line 5 carries 87 million litres of oil and gas per day through the Straits of Mackinac— a six km wide connection between Lakes Michigan and Huro...
Jul 14th, 2021
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Helicopter spraying glyphosate over newly growing forest By Reykia Fick, Nature and Food Campaigner, Greenpeace Canada It is known as the “rain of death”. Every summer, helicopters spray vast quantities of glyphosate over newly growing forests. This herbicide poison — key ingredient in Monsanto’s Rou...
Jul 10th, 2021
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This is the proposed location for the Bradford Bypass, which would be built through the East Holland River shown here Read this article by Joel Wittnebel on The Pointer here: https://thepointer.com/article/2021-07-02/we-can-t-keep-doing-this-pc-government-speeds-ahead-with-bradford-bypass-advocates-s...
Jul 2nd, 2021
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Angeline Sandy, a 33-year-old Ojibwe-Potawatomi Anishinaabe from Beausoleil First Nation, stands in front of a memorial at St. Ann’s Parish created to honour the 215 Indigenous children whose remains were recently discovered in Kamloops B.C. – Andrew Mendler/Metroland From Simcoe.com June...
Jul 2nd, 2021
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John Hawke, an Indigenous rights activist and Beausoleil First Nation resident, organized an event in Thunder Beach on July 1. His goal is to create unity among Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents and work towards truth and reconcilation. – Andrew Mendler/Metroland From Simcoe.com July 2, 2...
Jul 1st, 2021
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Johnny Hawke has started an encampment on Thunder Beach where Carolyn Bennett has a cottage || Andrew Philips/MidlandToday From OrilliaMatters June 28 2021 By Andrew Philips Johnny Hawke sets up encampment over land claim, just down the beach from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canad...
Jun 1st, 2021
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Please sign and share the petition using this link: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3408 Petition e-3408 – Petitions Petition to the Government of Canada   Whereas: Indigenous peoples have rights and title to their traditional territories and have been stewar...
In Barrie
Jun 1st, 2021
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Signs are laid out and children’s shoes line the steps of the Spirit Catcher in downtown Barrie in memory of the 215 children whose bodies were found buried on the grounds of a residential school in Kamloops, B.C.Shawn Gibson/BarrieToday From Orillia Matters June 1 2021 By: Shawn Gibson ‘...