BY ANTHONY SCHNECK Mind Body Green It’s difficult enough for one person to live a zero-waste lifestyle; can you imagine if an entire grocery store tried it? Well, one market in Berlin, Germany is actually making it happen. At Original Unverpackt, you won’t find produce bags, paper bags, ...
AWARE News Network You have until Sunday January 25 at 11:59 pm to comment on the Ontario government’s consultation on plans to protect pollinators by limiting neonicotinoid use. Here’s the information about the government’s proposals. See below a sample letter suggested by the Ontario Beekeepers Ass...
By Bruce Buttar, Board Member, Ontario Federation of Agriculture After thoroughly reviewing the provincial government’s discussion paper on pollinator health, attending public consultation meetings and researching causes of bee morality, the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) recently submitted ...
By Anna Baggio CPAWS Wildlands League Huffington Post This is the only reasonable conclusion I can come up with after listening to Ontario’s lawyers in court late last week defend a regulation (O Reg 176/13) that exempts almost all industrial activities from the core protections of the Endanger...
Township must remove waste from old quarry by Jan. 30 By Patrick Bales Orillia Packet & Times The saga of some inappropriately dumped waste in Ramara Township continues. Ramara’s committee of the whole received an official letter from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MO...
By Bill Tremblay Orangeville Banner All votes will now be recorded votes in Orangeville’s council chambers. Traditionally, a councillor would call a recorded vote if they perceived the issue as particularly import to municipal business. On Monday (Jan. 20), council decided to record every vote they c...
From Facebook When: Friday February 13th at 1pm Where: The constituency office of MP Kellie Leitch, the Minister for the Status of Women. What: Gathering together as one voice to demand an Indigenous women-led National Inquiry. There is not one seat at the February 27th Round Table discussions for an...
New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County council’s direction to its senior staff to keep the 2015 levy increase to one per cent over last year, has resulted in $1.389 million worth of adjustments to the draft. The impact will lower the previously projected two per cent average property t...
Just because employees are highly paid doesn’t mean we can depend on them By Paul Schliesmann, Kingston Whig-Standard In the eastern Ontario village of Westport, all eyes these days are on the weather and the calendar. The colder and longer the winter the better. Temperatures of –7 C mean muni...
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