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Jun 8th, 2023
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Wasaga Beach Climate Action Team June 2023 Newsletter As summer is coming, we are starting to see the effects of climate change for this season across the country: warmer and dryer temperatures, forest fires from east to west (2214 wildfires and 3.3 Million hectares already burned so far this year in...
Jun 4th, 2023
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From the Ontario Headwaters Institute Please see the submission from the Coalition of Ontario Water Guardians and sign the petition to support its four recommendations on the Province’s latest disaster on land use planning, which seeks to amalgamate the Provincial Policy Statement with A Place to Gro...
Jun 4th, 2023
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From Simcoe.com, June 2, 2023 A letter by Alex Nicholls, Midland Doug Ford is intent on trying to sell privatization as a solution to the health-care crisis that he has directly caused. He claims there is no money to pay our nurses, doctors and technicians, after cutting their budget by $21 billion —...
Jun 4th, 2023
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Steve Clark (left), Ontario’s minister of municipal affairs and housing, will be receiving a letter based on a motion by Clearview Township Mayor Doug Measures that was passed May 23 by Simcoe County council. From Simcoe.com, May 24, 2023 By Travis Mealing Midland Mirror Steve Clark, Ontario...
Jun 4th, 2023
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Amy Cann is the director of planning and building for the Township of Clearview. – Township of Clearview photo From Simcoe.com, June 2, 2023 By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Changes to Ontario’s policy statement on land-use planning could have dire consequences for Clearview Township’s agricultural land...
Jun 4th, 2023
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The Town of Midland’s wastewater treatment plant is located at 200 Bay St. near the shores of Georgian Bay From Simcoe.com, June 2, 2023 By Andrew Mendler Midland Mirror Sewage dumping into Georgian Bay has decreased significantly in recent years. “It rarely happens now with all of the work we ...
Jun 4th, 2023
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By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance It’s time for the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) to stop gaslighting our communities. On Dec. 23, 2022, Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith told the IESO in no uncertain terms that new gas plants and gas plant expansions re...
Jun 4th, 2023
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Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark speaks in the Ontario Legislature on May 18, 2023.  CHRIS YOUNG / THE CANADIAN PRESS From the Toronto Star, May 31, 2023 By Rob Ferguson Queen’s Park Bureau A rare climbdown by Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives — on an ill-fated ...
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Jun 4th, 2023
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From the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition In this edition: Welcome Bradford Bypass Information Town Halls SCGC and Lake Simcoe on TVO’s The Agenda Turn up the heat on local MPPs Webinar recordings on housing and farmland. The Whale Substack   Summer Time! Warm weather is here. The last da...
Jun 4th, 2023
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Please review the open letter here. Please sign on using this google form. As many of you may recall, last month, the Royal Bank of Canada, held their annual shareholder meeting. It was a debacle. The bank held their AGM in Saskatoon – a small town in central Canada – after fleeing Toront...