Ottawa, Newmarket, Montreal, Vancouver, Winnipeg… from 350.org From May 24th-27th, MPs across Canada hosted climate townhalls for their constituents. At every event, the room was packed with hundreds of people speaking up for the People’s Climate Plan. People came out in record-breaking numbers...
From the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation On May 10, the province announced its proposed changes to the Greenbelt. These included several positive moves: growing the Greenbelt into 28 urban river valleys and wetlands; more support for farming and local food; and a commitment to grow our towns and ...
Water, Indigenous rights, Justice for Mercury Survivors From River Run 2016 Thursday, June 2, 12pm, Queen’s Park — Join us for a massive arts-based action to ensure real answers from the provincial government! Over 40 years ago, people in Grassy Narrows were poisoned by mercury from a paper mil...
From Simcoe County Public consultation on options for garbage collection services, curbside and facilities diversion programs, and reduction and reuse, will take place at the Simcoe County Museum or via webinar on Tuesday, May 3 & 17 at 2 – 4 and 6 – 8 p.m. The County’s Solid Waste Ma...
By Mehreen Shahid, Orillia Packet & Times A Port Severn gas station could soon become an electric-car charging point. Jagdish Kang, owner and operator of Jag’s Petro-Canada Fuel and Convenience, applied for a grant through Ontario’s Green Investment Fund and has been approved for $130...
AWARE Simcoe Annual General Meeting and Public meeting on Expanding the Greenbelt in Simcoe County Guest speakers: -Margaret Prophet – Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition -Bernard Pope – Ontario Farmland Preservation Learn about farmland and greenlands preservation by expanding the Greenbel...
From the Brereton Field Naturalists On Saturday, May 14, the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority will be continuing to implement their “the Creeks project” by involving the community in tree planting at 99 Loon Ave. in Barrie from 10 am to 12. The more community volunteers we get, the more nati...
Jim Charlebois photo AWARE News Network The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is urging us to celebrate, in the words of E.O. Wilson, “the little things that run the world.” If insects disappeared, there are many items we would struggle to find (apples, blueberries, and ...
Coal-Free Ontario with Morgan Freeman From the Ontario Clean Air Alliance The leadership of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance in helping Ontario to become the first jurisdiction to end the use of coal-fired electricity for health and environmental reasons has not gone unnotic...
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