In Midhurst, residents say a ‘special rule’ allows sprawl and developers are preparing to put shovels in the ground, but the fight isn’t over By: Rachel Mendleson Toronto Star In a rural village in Simcoe County, concerned residents have turned the municipal election into a referendum on ...
From Sierra Club Canada Foundation Sierra Club Canada Foundation is calling on Ontario Agriculture Minister Jeff Leal to immediately ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides on soybeans in light of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study that concludes the bee killing pesticides provide little ...
From Midland Cultural Centre “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret” is a film showing this Friday, October 24th at 7:30pm at the Midland Cultural Centre. It’s a critical look at large scale factory farming and its link to climate change. Cost is $10. more info...
News release from Blue Mountain Watershed Trust On the eve of its 30th year anniversary, Commissioners of the Niagara Escarpment Commission(NEC) have voted 7-5 to ask the provincial government to end all new aggregate extraction on the Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. On Septembe...
With lax rules and no tracking system, Ontario sits idly while Toronto’s contaminated dirt is dumped in the countryside Toronto Star Toronto’s construction boom is unearthing massive volumes of soil contaminated with dangerous heavy metals and petroleum, but it’s nearly impossible to know where the d...
BY AMARNATH AMARASINGAM SARAH MORGAN Rabble “Will our children looking back, upon all that we have done/ find clean water in a bottle, and denounce Site 41?” — Marg Raynor, Site 41 Drum Song Beginning in May 2009, in the small community of Tiny Township, Ontario, the Beausoleil Firs...
By Kirtana Chandrasekaran & Martin Drago Common Dreams ROME, Italy – Today, World Food Day, we are confronted with the failure of our global food system: 805 million people are going hungry while obesity affects over 2 billion of us. The hungry are mostly the rural poor living in developing count...
Hundreds of thousands of people who live near Ontario’s nuclear power plants will have to be given supplies of anti-radiation pills under new orders from Canada’s nuclear regulator By Keith Leslie The Canadian Press Hundreds of thousands of people who live near Ontario’s nuclear power plants will ha...
Illegal dumping a widespread practice in this country By Havard Gould, CBC News It is astonishing what Canadians do in the woods. Canadians love the landscape and the landscape helps define us. The Group of Seven and other celebrated artists showed the world a country of pristine lakes and glorious f...
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