By Charles O’Hara Director, Resource Recovery Policy Branch Environmental Policy Division Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Park On June 3, 2021, Ontario finalized a new blue box regulation (O. Reg. 391/21) to make producers responsible for collecting and managing paper, packaging...
By Katie Krelove, Ontario Campaigner, Wilderness Committee Let’s give Algonquin Park the gift of protection May 27 marks the 130th anniversary of the establishment of Algonquin Park. It’s Ontario’s oldest provincial park, and the first in Canada. Unfortunately, Algonquin Park is still stuck in ...
By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance Double your impact Last week, Ontario took yet another determined step down the road toward climate destruction. In an era when everyone from the United Nations to the oil-and-gas-friendly International Energy Agency has said “no more fos...
Local farmers are worried about the impact of planned provincial legislation. From OrilliaMatters, May 24, 2022 By Derek Howard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A recent crop of concerns popped up at the Tiny Township council meeting. Tiny council heard from Paul Maurice of Lafontaine, a local f...
Premier Doug Ford attends a news conference at Bramalea GO Station, in Brampton, on May 11, 2023. CHRIS YOUNG / THE CANADIAN PRESS From the Toronto Star, May 19, 2023 By Rob Ferguson Queen’s Park Bureau Robert Benzie Queen’s Park Bureau Chief Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will sweeten t...
Ontario’s Farm Leaders have issued an open letter to Doug Ford on the latest Sprawl Everywhere Bill 97 and proposed Provincial Planning Statement Posted on 18 May 2023. They are united in asking the Ontario government to take pause on its recently released proposed Provincial Planning Statement and n...
Orillia City Centre | Nathan Taylor/OrilliaMatters file photo From OrilliaMatters, May 18, 2023 NEWS RELEASE CITY OF ORILLIA ************************* The City of Orillia is moving to the next step in its boundary review process to accommodate future growth in population and jobs to the year 2051. A ...
Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark speaks at the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association conference in Thunder Bay on Friday, April 26, 2019. (Matt Vis, tbnewswatch.com) From OrilliaMatters, May 18, 2023 By Jack Hauen EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium,...
Joint Statement from Ontario’s Farm Leaders on Bill 97 and Proposed Provincial Planning Statement All of the farm organizations in Ontario have released an unprecedented joint statement against Bill 97 with a focus on the lot severance rules for agricultural land. The core of their concern is that: &...
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault speaks to reporters in the Foyer of the House of Commons as he arrives Question Period, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, April 20, 2023. | Justin Tang/The Canadian Press From MidlandToday, May 14, 2023 By Aidan Chamandy Federal Env...
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