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...or let everyone everywhere become ever more radioactiveBy Gordon Edwards - Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility September 16 2011ACTION ITEM: It is urgently necessary to start aninternational campaign to roll back the "free release"limits which allow radioactively contaminated materialsto...
By Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press September 15, 2011 TORONTO – Ontario’s Liberal government is facing allegations of abusive interference from a company that claims the province scuttled its application to develop a quarry for political rather than environmental reasons. Read more ...
Canadian Chefs’ Congress on July 7, 2011 On October 16th, 2011 we will gather 20,000 people on the remaining Melancthon farmland that did not sell out to the Highland Companies. Hosted by over 70 of Canada’s top chefs from around the country, this event will celebrate Ontario’s bounty of food a...
‘We have to protect land that can grow food’ By Jennifer Bain Toronto Star September 15, 2011 Activist chef Michael Stadtländer is spearheading a farm-based food protest and hopes 20,000 people will join him. Read more ...
ZWS wants deposit/return program for bottles restoredZero Waste Simcoe release September 13 2011NORTH SIMCOE – A provincial election campaign has given a local environmental group an opening to press for further waste reduction....
How Not to Stop a Pipeline by RALPH NADER Counterpunch Sept. 14 2011 It was the most extraordinary citizen organizing feat in recent White House history. Over 1200 Americans from 50 states came to Washington and were arrested in front of the White House to demonstrate their opposition to a forthcomin...
AWARE Simcoe September 11 2011Ontarions should let the people of Boston, home of the Baupost hedge fund, know how they feel about the mega-quarry. Keep your letter short and it’s more likely to be published. Email it to il to: letterstoeditor@bostonherald.com Link to Herald story on mega-quarr...
Hub hedge fund hit over quarry By Brendan Lynch Boston Herald September 11, 2011 The Baupost Group, a Boston hedge fund, is under fire north of the border for financing a controversial, 2,300-acre limestone “mega-quarry” outside Toronto that would replace fertile potato farmland. Read more ...
The Grower September 2011 Six thousand acres of Honeywood silt loam, coveted by potato growers surrounding Shelburne, Ontario, sit at the head of a simmering controversy. “The BMW of soil” is how Kate Armstrong describes the legacy of her great-great-great-great grandfather who first farmed there in ...
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