from NDACT It didn’t take long for the review of the Aggregate Resources Act to rear its head in 2014. As you’ll recall, the Standing Committee on General Government studied the outdated legislation following the uproar over the Highland mega quarry. Sadly, the Committee ignored the stron...
Carl Cosack of the Mega-Quarry battle to speak From the MRA This year, our theme is “Community Matters”. When: Sunday January 26 2014 from 4-7 pm Where: Midhurst Community Centre, 74 Doran Road Our community does matter and so we will be hosting a community appreciation buffet (4-5:30) co...
Let’s put Ontario Ombudsman André Marin in charge of investigating back-room municipal meetings and needless secrecy, not just for some cities, but for all Toronto Star Editorial Fairness demands that public business be conducted in the open, for all to see, but some municipal councils still indulge...
Municipalities in Ontario are allowed to appoint anybody they’d like to investigate secret meetings, leading to what Ombudsman Andre Marin calls a “patchwork” system where governments can ditch investigators they disagree with By Tim Alamenciak Toronto Star In the City of Brampton, a complaint about ...
Grassy Narrows Blockade to Resume if Logging Operation Starts By Gale Courey Toensing Indian Country Today Assembly of First Nations Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy has called for an immediate blockade of logging operations if the Ontario government’s plan to allow clear-cutting of mature trees wi...
Global News TORONTO –Amalgamating Toronto, Scarborough, York, North York, East York, and Etobicoke has cost taxpayers more money, not less, according to new research out of the University of Western Ontario. But it’s unclear what caused those increased costs. Western University professor Timothy Cobb...
The expat-Canadian rock ‘n’ roller’s Sunday Massey Hall gig aims to raise environmental awareness and money for First Nations legal challenge By Ben Rayner Toronto Star Neil Young kicked off his four-date “Honor the Treaties” tour of Canada on Sunday with some fighting words about ...
AWARE Simcoe news release AWARE Simcoe is calling on Ontario to plan for finite, sustainable communities. The underlying assumption of the current planning regime is one of perpetual growth, with no community ever deemed to be complete, no level of population ever enough. “In our view this assumption...
From Transition Barrie On the surface, Vaxjo Sweden and Barrie Ontario are actually somewhat similar. Vaxjo, situated inland in southern Sweden at the 57th parallel, is actually slightly further north than Fort McMurray, Alberta. Barrie would seem rather tropical being located at a latitude of 44 deg...
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