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Nov 3rd, 2020
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Tree Sparrow by Arni Stinnissen from the Couchiching Conservancy Learn the story behind award-winning photographer Arni Stinnissen’s favourite photos – landscapes, flowers, animals & birds. Not to be missed! When: Wednesday November 11, 20220 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Where: Online Register Ar...
Nov 3rd, 2020
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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...
Nov 3rd, 2020
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Paul Bonwick Public inquiry recommends conflict-of-interest overhaul for municipal councillors CBC News A tangle of insider relationships among officials and family in the resort town of Collingwood, Ont., led to serious problems in two multimillion-dollar public contracts, a judge concluded today af...
Nov 2nd, 2020
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Plan for retirement community at east end of Elmvale Medical Innovation Advanced Manufacturing Park in Oro-Medonte Township and Elmvale Active Seniors Residence both given the go-ahead from the province By: Jessica Owen Barrie Today Two more local development projects have been granted a minister’s z...
Nov 2nd, 2020
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Justice Frank Marrocco releases report online today. Four people were at core of Collus sale, rec centre investment This is the first in a series of three reports on the Collingwood judicial inquiry, dealing with key findings made by the judge By Kate Harries AWARE News Network Four people – fo...
Nov 2nd, 2020
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Sample being collected from an area artesian well – AWARE Simcoe photo AWARE News Network A series of posts in the Friends of the Waverley Uplands Facebook group from September 19 to October 31 2020 details water issues being experienced by residents in the vicinity of the Teedon Pit in Waverle...
Oct 29th, 2020
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from  Just Recovery Simcoe Citizens around the world are calling for social justice, economic reform and preservation of nature, key strategies civilization needs to embrace in order to mitigate the worst impacts of the climate crisis we are already experiencing, while we plan our recovery from the p...
Oct 29th, 2020
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By Kate Harries Springwater News For the first time in 16 months, Springwater’s mayor has broken his silence and provided an account of what happened at the county warden’s charity golf tournament at Vespra Hills on June 26 2019 that led to his being charged with impaired and dangerous driving. The c...
Oct 28th, 2020
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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...
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Oct 28th, 2020
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Lovers Creek Ravine From Change.org Residents of Painswick South District, specifically those on Loon Avenue, are outraged and saddened by a proposed townhome development being planned in their backyards at 521 Huronia Road, Barrie, backyards which back onto Lovers Creek Ravine (a provincially protec...