CBC News Jan 9, 2012 SPECIAL REPORT: Power Switch Reports of two radioactive spills at the nuclear power plant in Point Lepreau, N.B., late in 2011 have raised concerns with the head of Canada’s Nuclear Safety Commission. Read more ...
Fergus Elora News Express January 3 2012 Culinary activist and Elora resident Anita Stewart has been appointed to Order of Canada for outstanding achievements in Canadian food and cuisine. Read more http://www.centrewellington.com/news/article/103188 Anita on Foodstock ...
CBC News Jan 6 2012 Tim Hortons is defending its use of paper cups after a Fredericton man announced his plans to photograph and pick up discarded coffee cups for the next year. Read more ...
News release from Anishinabek Nation - Jan 5 2012UOI OFFICES, NIPISSING FN – Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee says that First Nations in the Anishinabek Nation Territory have been opposed to nuclear waste storage sites since 2004....
Letters to the Toronto Star January 7 2011 Re: Anatomy of a quarry fight, Dec. 31 Thanks for a well researched and well written article about the possibility of mass aggregate extraction in Melancthon. The thought of such a large mass of arable land being destroyed in the name of aggregate extraction...
By Scott Dunn, QMI Agency January 3 2012 Meaford’s energy-from-waste proposal is to be the subject of two opposing public meetings. REad more ...
Anatomy of a quarry fight By Jayme Poisson Toronto Star December 29 2011 MELANCTHON, ONT. — Here in Melancthon, farmers love the land so much they etch pictures of their homesteads on family gravestones. When they die in this township — an idyllic stretch of rolling farmlands that juts out of Shelbu...
By M. CAROLYN BLACK Midland Free Press dec 22 2011 A story that has dominated the national news since late October now has a local element: Clarence (Clare) Boudreau of EHL Homes in Penetanguishene has secured a government contract to build 22 modular homes in the troubled northern Ontario community ...
North Gwillimbury development threatens wetlands and forestsThe Scoop - Environmental Defence -Dec 21 2011 A new development being proposed for the south shore of Lake Simcoe will have a large impact on one of the watershed’s largest forested areas. Metrus Developments proposed Maple Leaf Estates wil...
‘We’ve been asleep at the switch,’ says NDP’s Pat Martin By Kathryn May, Ottawa Citizen December 21, 2011 Seven agents of Parliament have twice made an “unprecedented appeal” to Commons committees to do a better job of scrutinizing and overseeing the watchdogs an...
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