‘We need a culture change now,’ says letter writer Dec 28, 2022 Photo: Biodiversity Jenga by Martin Sharman cc The main drive for elected officials is to be (re)elected. If we want to fight for our Greenbelt, we must slow down issuing building permits for the development of the necessary...
‘It is time for municipalities to take a united stand against Premier Ford’s plan for environmental destruction and move toward saving the Greenbelt,’ reader says From Bradford today, Dec 27 2022, Stock image of a Wigeon Drake duck There is a lot of hand clapping, handshaking and pa...
‘What bleak future would shake this premier enough to turn the nightmare into a miracle?’ wonders local Green party official, harkening parallels to Dickens. Premier Doug Ford speaks during a media conference in Orillia in August 2020. | Nathan Taylor/OrilliaMatters file photo Brad Coccim...
Critics say the changes will “completely undermine the protection of wetlands” while doing little for housing. By Noor JavedStaff Reporter,Toronto Star Sat., Dec. 24, 2022 photo Hartley Woodside The majority of sensitive wetlands in the Greater Toronto Area could lose environmental protection ...
I am sure if Premier Davis were alive he would be fighting alongside Ontarians against Ontario’s anti-environment Bill 23 and Greenbelt land grab. From the Toronto Star, By Sarah Harmer Contributor, Wed., Dec. 21, 2022 I grew up on the Niagara Escarpment, the backbone of southern Ontario’s Gre...
The provincial government is taking control over the selection of the next chief justice of the Ontario Court of Justice using a process the judges say “will erode public confidence” in the courts, the Star has learned. From the Toronto Star By Jacques Gallant Courts and Justice Reporter, Dec. 15, 20...
Responding to the over-representation of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples in custody. Community and Justice Services professor Lance Triskle takes his Indigenous Justice class out to the Debwewin miinwaa Naaskodaadiwin Miikaans Truth and Reconciliation Trail at the Orillia Campus for a lesson. ...
First Nation in northwestern Ontario gains promise that no logging company or lumber mill will touch trees from their land without their permission. From the Toronto Star By Marco Chown Oved Climate Change Reporter Fri., Dec. 2, 2022 For 20 years, they’ve blockaded and marched, gone to court a...
‘We can anticipate where they will strike next,’ writes Gord Miller Gord Miller From Simcoe.com Monday, December 12, 2022 The battle to stop the removal of Greenbelt lands from their protected status is not over yet. Many still protest and call for a suspension and reversal of this decisi...
Jeff Monague offers holiday wishes for politicians, including Simcoe North MPP, who he noted ‘may have accidentally fallen into a vat of invisible ink’ Jeff Monague, an Ojibway elder and knowledge keeper, has some good wishes and advice for politicians. From OriliaMatters The season for g...
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