By Rejean Pommainville, Board Member, Ontario Federation of Agriculture Canadians are going to the polls this fall for a federal election. When there’s an election in Ontario the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) spends a lot of time in front of policy makers to ensure they understand the signi...
REMEMBER THE QUARRY DEBACLE? HERE WE GO AGAIN!! From Concerned Citizens Public information sessions regarding Nelson Aggregate application for extraction of 1,000,000 tonnes of sand and gravel a year at the 5th Sideroad and County Road 13 in Adjala/Tosorontio When: Sunday Feb. 22 2015 at either 2 pm...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County, six years removed from the protracted and bitter fight lost to opponents of its proposed landfill site in Elmvale (Site 41), prepares to embark on a new site selection process, this time to develop and operate an organics processing facility, whose end r...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County, six years removed from the protracted and bitter fight lost to opponents of its proposed landfill site in Elmvale (Site 41), prepares to embark on a new site selection process, this time to develop and operate an organics processing facility, whose end r...
By Miriam King, QMI Agency INNISFIL — The massive Friday Harbour Resort development at Big Bay Point cleared another hurdle during Wednesday’s council meeting. Servicing and construction of residences at Friday Harbour Resort will begin this season, after council lifted the holding provision fr...
News release from Francis Scarpaleggia Francis Scarpaleggia, Member of Parliament for Lac-Saint-Louis and Chair of the National Liberal Caucus, today tabled legislation in the House of Commons to amend the Canada Water Actto authorize the federal government to play a lead role in promoting the optimu...
News release from Sierra Club Canada Foundation Sierra Club Canada Foundation (SCCF) welcomes the Government of Ontario’s Great Lakes Protection Act (GLPA), reintroduced at Queen’s Park today. The real challenge will follow. Ontario’s reality as the jurisdiction with the largest Gre...
By ANDREW PHILIPS, Barrie Examiner The final tallies are in and last year’s international plowing match in Simcoe County seems to have created the desired economic impact. Cal Madill, chairman of the 2014 International Plowing Match held last September in Ivy, recently told county councillors the eve...
Projects approved long ago take years to start — but that might provide an opportunity to truly protect our environment By Christopher Hume Toronto Star You needn’t look far to see that planning in Ontario is anything but. It has become a process so flawed, it actually creates the opposite. Indeed, ...
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