By Penny Pepperell Toronto Star July 7 2012The Great Lakes are a world treasure, and the jewel in their crown is Georgian Bay. (I’m going to break with convention and refer to Georgian Bay as a Great Lake because it is almost as big as Lake Ontario.) Biologists describe it as the most complex fresh w...
AWARE Simcoe July 9 2012 AWARE Simcoe members extend their deepest condolences to the family of Andrew Mixemong, his colleagues at the Georgian Bay Native Friendship Centre, and the people of Chimnissing (Beausoleil First Nation). “Our community is in mourning over the brutal attack of one of our me...
By DOUGLAS GLYNN QMI AGENCY July 8 2012MIDLAND, Ont. - Georgian Bay Native Friendship Centre president Andrew Mixemong died after a brutally beating Friday night at the rear of a downtown restaurant when he went to the aid of his wife, who was being harassed by two men....
By Timothy Egan, The New York Times July 5 2012Nature makes a mockery of our vanity. We live in flood and fire zones, nurture stately oaks and take shade under pines holding the best air of the Rocky Mountains. We plant villas next to sandstone spires called the Garden of the Gods, and McMansions in ...
Tree named in memory of Gord Leonard grows in Christian Island orchardBy Tiffany Ruffett July 7 2012A few centuries ago, the wave of immigration to this land brought a tremendous amount of upheaval and displacement for every Indigenous Nation on Turtle Island in the years which followed. Contrary to...
AWARE Simcoe July 7 2012The Blue Ribbon got a boost at a strategy meeting of opponents of the proposed mega-quarry in Melancthon hosted in May by the David Suzuki Foundation. One of the participants, John DeCrombrugghe from AWARE Simcoe wore a blue ribbon attached to the lapel of his jacket....
Six Nations, Southgate residents work to save headwaters of Grand River from becoming “Toronto’s trashbin”by KATHRYN WETTLAUFER GRAND RIVER MEDIA COLLECTIVE July 4 2012Before the blockade started, few had heard of Dundalk. But now that Six Nations land defenders and residents of Southgate Township ha...
FoTTSA news release -- JULY 3, 2012 Doing nothing about the dramatic lowering of Great Lakes water levels is not an option, says Paul Cowley, President of the Federation of Tiny Township Shoreline Associations [FoTTSA] “We can slow the outflow," Cowley said, decrying the do-nothing solutions offered ...
Cosack urges MPPs to make source water protection their legacyAWARE Simcoe July 2 2012 Last Tuesday, in Orangeville, members of the Ontario Legislature’s Standing Committee on General Government heard representations on Ontario’s outdated Aggregate Resources Act from, among others, Carl Cosack of the...
AWARE Simcoe June 30 2012Melancthon residents asked an all-party committee of MPPs who were holding a hearing on the Aggregate Resources Act review in Orangeville on Wednesday to visit the proposed mega-quarry area. At the 11th hour, they agreed. Local farmers scrambled to be ready to greet them and ...
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