By Mark Calzavara Council of Canadians November 22nd, 2012 The video is stunning. Hundreds of large fish leap out of the water, high enough to strike boaters in the head as they motor through waters that have been taken over by Asian carp. These fish leap out of the water when startled (by the sound...
By Thomas Walkom Toronto Star November 22, 2012 Say goodbye to Dalton McGuinty’s green industry strategy for jobs and manufacturing. The World Trade Organization may have put the boots to it. But the Ontario premier and his government were unwitting accomplices.Critics are already denouncing the trad...
Letter to the Barrie Examiner November 21 2012Like many in this country, I was born to immigrant parents who came here from Holland after the devastation of the Second World War. My family spent most of the war under the thumb of the Nazi regime. My aunt recalled small acts of daily control, terror a...
Legislative changes encroach on First Nations treaty rightsLetter from Patrick Wedaseh Madahbee, Grand Council Chief, Anishinabek Nation, to Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- November 21 2012Over the past couple of years it has become increasingly apparent to the Anishinabek First Nations that the fed...
Coalition of farmers and urban foodies halts Ontario mega-quarryBy JOE FRIESEN The Globe and Mail Nov. 22 2012It would have been the biggest quarry in Canada, but it was stopped in its tracks by an unusual coalition of farmers, urban foodies, artists, environmentalists and native bands, one that sugg...
Scroll down for first-day news coverage and reaction AWARE Simcoe November 21 2012 First, Dump Site 41. Now the Mega-Quarry. Congratulations to NDACT and related groups for a fight well-fought, that enlisted the support of First Nations people in the watersheds of the five rivers that flow from the h...
Council of Canadians news release November 16, 2012 Ottawa – The Council of Canadians is renewing calls that the Harper government tear up its recently concluded investment treaty with China, and that it cease negotiating excessive corporate rights into the Canada-EU free trade deal, in light of a ne...
By Brent Patterson, Councul of Canadians November 14th, 2012This evening, the Edmonton Journal reports, “In 2011, the chairman of Nestle said that his company was actively dealing with the government of Alberta to think about setting up a water exchange, where water could be bought and sold like a co...
By Kate Harries AWARE News Network November 14 2012Severn Sound is no longer a rich musky spawning ground.In 1981, researchers from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources surveyed 100 wetland sites at the southeastern end of Georgian Bay and identified 20 of them as productive musky nurseries....
By DOUGLAS GLYNN Midland Free Press November 8, 2012Huronia’s four mayors are asking other shoreline municipalities to join them in seeking provincial and federal aid to deal with the economic impact of low water levels in Georgian Bay....
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