Letter to the Springwater News from Mayor Linda Colllins In a continued effort to maintain the facts and clear the air about the plans for the Midhurst Growth, I offer the following. This Council is trying to get it right! We are not rushing items forward. The Township of Springwater must follow proc...
Barrie Examiner SPRINGWATER TWP. – Green Party of Ontario Leader Mike Schreiner stopped on the campaign trail Wednesday to address supporters in a farm field near Midhurst where the local residents association is fighting developers who want to turn farmland into subdivisions. ...
Outspoken, original and passionate in his defence of mother earth and all her creatures, Farley Mowat never shied away from controversy. He died yesterday at the age of 92 at his Port Hope home. He will be missed. Statement from Elizabeeth May “When someone you love dies, it is not possible to begi...
My View – During my career I had the opportunity of living in some nice cities and enjoyed it very much. I spent two years in London, England living in the Kensington High Street area in a lovely 3 bedroom flat. I lived for a year in Santa Monica in a beautiful Condo Complex at Marina […...
Two viewings this weekend of Vanishing of the Bees, a documentary that examines the alarming disappearance of honeybees and the greater meaning it holds about the relationship between mankind and mother earth. As scientists puzzle over the cause, organic beekeepers suggest alternative reasons for t...
by JOHN LAFORGE Counterpunch No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.” — Lily Tomlin Ontario Power Generation (OPG) — which owns or leases 20 nuclear reactors across Ontario — would save loads of cash by not having to contain, monitor and repackage leaky above-ground radioactiv...
Letter to the Barrie Examiner (Re: ‘Midhurst residents seeking responsible growth’ in the May 1 edition of the Examiner – see below) This letter from Sandy Buxton of the Midhurst Residents Association (MRA) contains so many errors of fact it has hard to know where to begin in refu...
From Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline to Keystone XL, Line 9 and Energy East, there are looming decisions on dangerous pipelines and extreme energy projects across Canada. Now, on May 10th, people are stepping up from coast-to-coast-to-coast to defend our Now, on May 10th, people are ste...
CBC News Shawn Atleo has quit as national chief of the Assembly of First Nations amid rancour over the federal government’s proposed overhaul of aboriginal education. Atleo made the surprise announcement at a news conference in Ottawa Friday. The Harper government’s First Nations educatio...
Property values, impact on cattle among concerns raised By Jenni Dunning Midland Mirror TINY TOWNSHIP – Farmers in 15 massive tractors travelled up and down a Wyebridge road April 24 to protest a solar farm being built just metres away. The fields along Wood Road used to grow soybeans and oats, and ...
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