• Protecting Water and Farmland in Simcoe County

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Mar 31st, 2022
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Mayor Brian Saunderson. Erika Engel/CollingwoodToday From Simcoe.com, March 29, 2022 By John Edwards Collingwood Mayor Brian Saunderson will take a leave of absence starting April 19. Saunderson, the Progressive Conservative candidate for the riding of Simcoe-Grey in the June 2 provincial election, s...
Mar 29th, 2022
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Zoom meeting April 5th at 12:00 pm for a DAMN! update...
In Barrie
Mar 28th, 2022
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Lake Simcoe is shown in a file photo. Simcoe County – Last week, the provincial government announced that it would be further consulting about a potential Greenbelt expansion; however, the proposed areas were limited only to publicly owned land surrounding some urban river valleys in the GTA mo...
Mar 28th, 2022
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Huron Natural Area, meadow habitat © Joshua Shea, City of Kitchener From Ontario Nature, March 23, 2022 By Jackie Ho Ontario Nature is pleased to announce that five municipalities and two conservation authorities in southern Ontario have had lands recognized as contributing to Canada’s target of prot...
Mar 24th, 2022
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Grassroots groups gather at Queen’s Park in Toronto to raise Awareness for the Alliston aquifer From CTV News, March 22, 2022 By Rob Cooper A group of concerned residents from Tiny Township gathered in Barrie before heading to Queen’s Park on Tuesday for World Water Day. The group wants p...
Mar 22nd, 2022
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Simcoe North MP Adam Chambers has helped initiate a House of Commons e-petition, which calls on the federal goverment to step up and protect the pristine groundwater in Tiny Township. From Simcoe.com, March 19, 2022 By Andrew Mendler The Government of Canada is being asked to take action to protect t...
Mar 21st, 2022
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Stop Sprawl Orillia is asking people who support their cause to put lawn signs on their properties.Dave Dawson/OrilliaMatters From OrilliaMatters, March 20, 2022 A Letter to the Editor I am a resident of Severn Township. We live in one of the most beautiful areas in the province; the townships that s...
Mar 21st, 2022
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Stock image From BarrieToday, March 20, 2022 A Letter to the Editor Tuesday, March 22 is World Water Day – a day to celebrate and recognize the critical importance of water in our lives (and our existence) and to raise awareness about the billions of people living on this planet without access to saf...
Mar 19th, 2022
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From Friends of Simcoe Forests Over the years we have received comments from many different people from many different walks of life. There is one word that we have heard continuously over the years in response to hearing the news that the Freele forest is to be the location of a major waste manageme...
Mar 18th, 2022
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What: a rally to protect the world’s purest scientifically tested water. A gravel mining operation in North Simcoe has a permit to draw millions of litres of groundwater daily just to wash gravel. A second operation is seeking a similar permit. Both operations sit above an aquifer containing the worl...