Call to Action: Your Input is Needed from NDACT The Ontario government wants to know what you think about extracting aggregate on prime agricultural land. (We believe we sent that message loud and clear during the Mega Quarry fight!) The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) has he...
from the David Suzuki Foundation The federal leaders’ debate on the economy focused on important issues — jobs, deficits, infrastructure spending, pipelines, climate change — but no one talked about a different vision for Canada’s economy. What if we challenged our leaders to answer the ...
By Andrew Philips Orillia Packet & Times Changes can sometimes lead to confusion and Orillia is no exception to the rule. A move by the municipality to collect garbage every other week has led to a number of calls to city hall and stickers outlining the change affixed to many garbage bags and con...
Re: Why Americans keep hitting the bottle (of water) Letter to the Toronto Star Sep 8 2015 What bothers me most about this article is that most bottles end up as either litter or in the garbage. In more than 16 countries around the world and in some Canadian provinces, there is deposit/return legisl...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County councillors will gather at the Kempenfelt Centre in Innisfil tomorrow morning to take part in a Governance Workshop, whose main focus will be reducing the composition of council, method of election, and term of Warden. It’s the latest attempt by the...
News release from Simcoe County More than 1,300 residents responded to the County of Simcoe’s Green Bin Survey, demonstrating strong interest in organics and opportunity to grow the program and increase Simcoe County’s diversion rate. Survey results comprised of 100 door-to-door responde...
By Laurie Watt Barrie Advance The Simcoe County District School Board should go re-read the city’s development rules before it revises its south high school plans. That’s the message Mayor Jeff Lehman and councillors told senior school board officials Monday night, officials who left the room quietly...
By Laura Finney Innisfil Journal The marina at Friday Harbour is finally full of water. A dam was put in place at the mouth of the marina and last week water from Lake Simcoe started flowing in slowly and naturally said Shauna Dudding, Geranium Corp. chief engineer and vice-president of land developm...
From Jack Gibbons, North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance DG Group’s bid to cut down close to 32,000 trees and destroy more than 100 acres of wetland and woodlands on its Maple Lake Estates property to build a mobile home park clearly cannot pass any reasonable test of ecological stewardship. The La...
Environmental groups win right to appeal decision on industry exemptions Ontario Nature news release TORONTO – The Ontario Court of Appeal has granted Ontario Nature and Wildlands League leave to appeal a lower court ruling that puts already endangered species at further risk of extinction. “Biologic...
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