By David Paddon, The Canadian Press TORONTO — Progressive Waste Solutions has agreed to a friendly deal that will see the Canadian waste management company merged into a new business that’s controlled by shareholders and management of Texas-based Waste Connections. The deal — a type...
From Sierra Club Canada Foundation The new year began with one of Canada’s leading daily newspaper taking heat from two of its readers for its lukewarm coverage of the climate change crisis. The readers’ letters, published in the Toronto Star January 1, point to one of the steps you can take—today, n...
By Dave Dawson, Orillia Packet & Times It’s never easy to acknowledge failure and it can be especially difficult to do so when you operate in the public realm. But that is what Ramara Township did last year when its council sanctioned, supported and paid for an outside review of the municipal ope...
By Ian McInroy, Barrie Examiner Residents of Centre Vespra, located west of Barrie on Sunnidale Road, will be watching the results of a Springwater Township council meeting on Wednesday night. Council will consider a draft bylaw — and potentially amending a zoning bylaw and establishing a holding pro...
By Andrew Philips Orillia Packet & Times ORO-MEDONTE – An Oro-Medonte resident who sounded the alarm over the township’s decision to turn a protected wetland into a parking lot wants the local conservation authority to employ “full, active and transparent justice.” Paul Sanderson said...
New Tecumseth Free Press January 18, 2016 Tecumseth Estates (Rizzardo) will preserve 12 acres (five hectares), or 40 per cent of its originally planned, Simcoe County approved, clear-cut of approximately 30 acres of woodlot at 6386 and 6416 9th Line in Beeton. The subject site is 241 acres in area of...
The news, revealed by Martin Regg Cohn in the Toronto Star last week – that provincial cabinet ministers are assigned fundraising quotas, and are in trouble if they don’t rake in enough money for the Ontario Liberal Party – was very shocking. It showed how much the representative system of democracy ...
AWARE Simcoe /Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition news release A free public event to discuss issues surrounding Simcoe’s water, farmland and natural heritage systems, and how we can protect these important resources through expanding the Greenbelt in Simcoe County. Saturday, January 30, 2016, 9:30-11:...
By Patrick Bales, The Orillia Packet & Times Sixteen recommendations have been presented to Ramara Township council and staff as ways to eliminate the “toxic” culture within the municipal offices. The organization and service-delivery review, prepared by John Whitesell, of Whitesell a...
By Janis Ramsay Barrie Advance Ian Taylor didn’t have much to say after losing a civil lawsuit Tuesday over Springwater Provincial Park fundraising dollars. Taylor had been president of the People for Parks Environment Initiative group — one of three citizens’ groups founded after the park was closed...
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