By Sara Ross, Barrie Examiner A wildlife passage under Highway 11, just outside Orillia in Severn Township, will become a solid wall when the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) is done repairing the bridge next year. Severn Mayor Mike Burkett and Orillia Mayor Angelo Orsi want to maintain the passage, ...
Former CRA auditor Jeffrey Granger forged documents to frame the mayor of Caledon for tax evasion after she blocked a prominent developer’s housing project By Marco Chown Oved Toronto Star A former tax official has admitted to using his insider knowledge to help Peel Region developers dodge hundreds...
By Heather Goldsworthy Colllingwood Enterprise Bulletin Months of planning and anticipation had led to this moment. More than 100 community members from across Simcoe County, from food producers and distributors, farmers, and municipal leaders to representatives from social services, health units, fo...
By Andrew DeWit Asia-Pacific Journal – Japan Focus Japan’s former Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro has repeatedly called for current Prime Minister Abe Shinzo to make an explicit decision to get out of nuclear power. Koizumi’s full-scale press conference on this matter, held on November 12 in front o...
AWARE Simcoe is working on recommendations to ensure the province develops a framework that will allow communities to improve without exhausting natural resources like water and farmland and without destroying natural spaces. We will post our report on this website in early January and will notify al...
Tiny, Midland praised for recording closed meetings Ontario Ombudsman release Strong public interest in local government transparency has exposed troubling gaps and weaknesses in the system for holding municipalities accountable, Ontario Ombudsman André Marin says in his latest report, released toda...
From Ontario Ombudsman’s office Ontario Ombudsman André Marin will release his 2012-2013 annual report on municipal meetings at a news conference at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, December 11. The new report covers cases handled by the Open Meeting Law Enforcement Team (OMLET) between September 1, 2012 and Au...
By Carey L Biron Asia Times WASHINGTON – As government representatives gathered on Tuesday in Indonesia for what could be final negotiations towards a global trade agreement under the World Trade Organization (WTO), environmentalists and social justice campaigners urged them to specify that wat...
Sierra Club Canada MEDIA RELEASE OTTAWA — New information from a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America should be enough to convince Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency to recommend a ban on bee-killing neonicotinoid p...
Media Release from Sierra Club Canada November 15, 2013 OTTAWA — Just as Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) is considering a ban on bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides, the ag industry trade association CropLife named long time Conservative MP Ted Menzies as its ne...
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