CATCH News Dec 07, 2011 The city’s integrity commissioner believes he can’t legally address violations of the councillor Code of Conduct that he was hired to enforce. The bombshell revelation is part of Earl Basse’s second annual report to the city’s accountability and transparency committee that is ...
Report finds faults in the business case for nuclear powerAWARE Simcoe December 8 2011Ontario MPPs have reeived a report questioning the business rationale for spending tax dollars to cushion nuclear plants from economic burdens that other industries have to cover from their own funds....
J-Source December 7 2011 The Canada-Europe Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) heads NewsWatch Canada’s 2011 list of underreported stories. Others iclude a lack of accountability by Canadian mining companies, the influence on legislation of corporate lobbying, violence against abo...
By Terence Corcoran National Post Dec. 6, 2011 In the annals of Canadian green energy policy, nothing stands out like Ontario’s headlong rush into becoming a world leader in the business. Read more ...
Update from Simcoe Solar Farm Awareness Project December 6 2011One more industrial solar facility (FIT project) was added to the Environmental Registry on November 29th, Midhurst 2. You have until December 29th to submit your comments or concerns....
By Chris Halliday Barrie Advance Nov 30, 2011 MELANCTHON – Dufferin-Caledon MP David Tilson is taking his federal government to task. Recently, the Conservative MP, who has already called on the federal government to subject The Highland Companies’ quarry plans in Melancthon to a federal enviro...
By Tim Groves and Martin Lukacs Toronto Star December 4 2011 The federal government created a vast surveillance network in early 2007 to monitor protests by First Nations, including those that would attract national attention or target “critical infrastructure” like highways, railways and pipelines, ...
âpihtawikosisân blog November 30 2011 Yes, Prime Minister Harper is apparently scratching his head about where $90 million in federal funding to Attawapiskat has gone. Many commentators then go on to make claims about lack of accountability, and no one knowing what happens to the money once it is ‘h...
Small Ontario community leads the way to goal of carbon neutrality Blog November 25 2011 Note: Eden Mills resident Tom Bowes spoke of this achievement at the recent AWARE Simcoe Christmas gathering. Just over four years ago, on November 7, 2007, Eden Mills, a small Ontario village about an hour’s dr...
THE HIGH ROAD By Ray Ford ON Nature Magazine November 30 2011 It has been a decades-long cold war, with some very hot engagements. But the struggle between Ontario’s $1.3-billion sand, gravel and stone industry and the people seeking to safeguard the province’s landscape, could, at last, be reaching ...
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