By Catherine Porter Toronto Star September 19, 2012The maples on Georgian Bay are already changing. It’s almost time to say goodbye for another year.Since my parents bought a scrap of land on a big island when I was a baby, I’ve squeezed every possible summer moment into Georgian Bay. To me, it is a ...
By Richard J. Brennan Toronto Star September 18, 2012Low water levels across the Great Lakes are playing havoc with boaters and forcing commercial ships to lighten their loads. Pleasure boaters on Lake Erie are “playing Russian roulette” when they venture out onto the most shallow lake among the five...
By James P. Bruce and Chris Wood Toronto Star September 16 2012This month in Washington, Environment Minister Peter Kent and Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, initialed a third renewal of a 40-year old agreement between Canada and the United States to “resto...
By Edward Hill - Victoria News September 14, 2012 A leading Canadian climate scientist today slammed the search for the long-lost 1845 Franklin Expedition as a veiled front for future oil and gas extraction in the high Arctic.Andrew Weaver, a professor in the University of Victoria school of earth a...
By Sultan Latif and Janos Mate Toronto Star August 28 2012Would it make sense to ask a doctor to examine a patient, but take away their stethoscope? That is what the Canadian government is asking scientists to do when it comes to ‘examining’ the ozone layer.Many assume that the ozone problem was fixe...
'When we opened our eyes, they has the land and we had the Bible'By David McLaren AWARE News Network September 10 2012In John Milloy’s A National Tragedy, there are before and after photographs of an Aboriginal boy. In the before photo, his hair is long. He is dressed in buckskins and beads and posed...
City staff take a drubbing over secrecyBy San Grewal Toronto Star September 5 2012 Brampton councillors took turns chastising senior city staff Wednesday for routinely keeping councillors in the dark and “failing to report” on important issues that are supposed to be council business.“It seems more a...
By Roberta Bell, Orillia Packet & Times September 3, 2012For the past six years, Bruce Stanton has represented Simcoe North in the House of Commons.A native of Severn Township, he’s lived in the community his whole life. Four years ago, he moved to Oro-Medonte with his family.“We’re literally within ...
By Bruce Hain Barrie Advance Sep 05, 2012INNISFIL/BARRIE — Innisfil could be joining Barrie in a boundary shuffle of federal electoral boundaries, with the new riding tentatively being called Barrie South.But the mayors of both municipalities agree the riding should be called Barrie-Innisfil to refl...
Public shut out by confidentiality agreementsEmail from Friends of NDACT http://www.facebook.com/Friends.of.NDACT September 3 2012You may be aware that the Highland Companies (HC), proponent of the proposed mega-quarry, has an affiliated company called the Highland Railway Group (HRG). The goal of t...
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