Province may grant new powers, funding channels to the environmental agencies By Chris Simon Barrie Advance Local conservation authorities will have the power to stop any construction that doesn’t comply to their regulations under a proposed set of rule changes being considered by the Ontario governm...
Black Tern chicks and parent -Jennifer Howard photo By Kate Harries Springwater News The elegant and acrobatic Black Tern is a species of special concern in Ontario – but Tiny Marsh has a healthy breeding population of these interesting birds. Dave Moore of the Canadian Wildlife Service, who is leadi...
from Friends of Simcoe Forests ►►► VERY IMPORTANT MEETING ALERT ►►► RE: PROPOSED ERRC (Environmental Resource Recovery Centre) AT 2976 HORSESHOE VALLEY ROAD WEST (FREELE FOREST) The Township of Springwater will be holding a public meeting on Monday June 19, 2017 at 6:30pm in the Springwater Administr...
Water Walker Josephine Mandamin calls for petition to be signed from Picking Up The Bundles Canoe Journey On behalf of Josephine Mandamin our fearless leader in this work for the Water, we’d like to share our initiative to begin another layer of what we must do for the Water. It is our hope tha...
By Andrew Philips Orillia Packet & Times As the keynote speaker during Thursday’s Zero Waste Conference at Lakehead University’s Orillia campus, Glen Murray said the province’s continued push to reduce its carbon footprint will lead to more jobs and a stronger, more prosperous economy. “We’re emp...
Missing the point Letter to the Packet & Times from Don Morgan, Midland – June 23 2017 Re: “Unfair suggestion,” letter to the editor, June 20 The real truth is that this case had nothing to do with AWARE Simcoe. As Ann Truyens stated in the newspaper article, she was only repre...
Hughes took constituent to small-claims court over comments on newspaper website By Andrew Philips Orillia Packet & Times June 7 2017 Oro-Medonte Township’s mayor has settled a lawsuit against one of his constituents in a defamation case that also served to bring the province’s anti-SLAPP law to ...
from Concerned Citizens in Adjala Tosorontio CCAT Inc., in our ongoing efforts to raise funds for a lawyer to accompany us to the OMB in November in our fight against the proposed Nelson pit, are having a Silent Auction and Pasta Festa at the Everett Legion on Saturday, June 10th from 6 – 9pm. See [&...
By Miriam King, Bradford Times Faced with the need to reduce phosphorus loading of Lake Simcoe, the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority is thinking “outside of the box.” So far, phosphorus reduction programs have only succeeded in keeping pace with growth and the increasing urbanization within ...
From Ontario government Following two years of extensive consultation, including recommendations from an Advisory Panel chaired by former federal cabinet minister and former Mayor of Toronto, David Crombie, we have released four updated land use plans that will help residents in the Greater Golden Ho...
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