By Jacob Kearey-Moreland Orillia Packet & Times More than 100 nations on Earth recognize the right to live in a healthy environment. Canada does not, yet. The Blue Dot Tour, launched by geneticist and grandfather David Suzuki, seeks to enshrine this right in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, fu...
By David Suzuki Abundant, cheap fossil fuels have driven explosive technological, industrial and economic expansion for more than a century. The pervasive infrastructure developed to accommodate this growth makes it difficult to contemplate rapidly shifting away from coal, oil and gas, which creates ...
From STORM (Save the Oak Ridges Moraine) Town Hall Meeting Wednesday January 28 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Brougham Hall, 3545 Brock Road, Brougham, ON Farmland and forests in Ontario’s Greenbelt are at risk of being paved over. Ask questions and hear from experts about how a proposal for an unneces...
from Ontario Clean Air Alliance Just before Christmas, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) quietly undermined one of the most important climate change initiatives in Ontario by putting arbitrary limits on programs designed to help us use natural gas more efficiently. It’s never good news when a regulatory...
Suggested highway would run from Vaughan to Milton running through the Greenbelt and prime farmland By: Noor Javed Toronto Star The province is in the midst of planning a new highway that will carry drivers across the GTA from Vaughan to Milton — in the hopes the infrastructure will help ease traffic...
By Roberta Bell, Orillia Packet & Times The Ministry of the Environment is keeping an eye on Ramara Township after staff authorized potentially contaminated waste to be dumped at a decommissioned municipal quarry. After the drainage catch basins under the trucks in the bays at Ramara works yards ...
Letter to the Orillia Packet & Times In the latest incarnation of the Harper government’s absurd conviction that it, and it alone, knows what’s best for the Canadian economy comes the statement that regulating greenhouse gases in the oil and gas sector makes for “crazy economic policy.” Perhaps i...
Science indicates that clearcuts will deepen the tragedy of mercury poisoning News release from FreeGrassy Grassy Narrows – On the night before Christmas Grassy Narrows First Nation received notice that Ontario is rejecting the community’s request for an Individual Environmental Assessmen...
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