After the Arab Spring, it's time for a Palestine Freedom SummerBY DERRICK O'KEEFE Rabble JUNE 21, 2011Today is the first day of summer, and it's now only a matter of days before the Canadian Boat to Gaza sails towards Gaza from a port in the Meditarranean.After almost a year of determined organizing ...

There are ways of raising material prosperity without destroying the earth – but these tend to reduce the potential for economic accumulation and profit Sunday 05 June 2011 by Derek Wall June 5 2011 UK Morning Star The recent figures on CO2 emissions are sobering. Despite the fact that the worl...

By DOUGLAS GLYNN Midland Free Press June 2 2011 ELMVALE -When you meet Ed Valender, you immediately appreciate that Anne Nahuis’s description of him is right on. He is, to use her words, “a testament to the human spirit.” Read more ...

By MARG. BRUINEMAN – BARRIE EXAMINER June 1 2011 Barrie Central Collegiate has been thrown a lifeline. The school board has until Sept. 30, 2014 to come up with a partnership plan. If a plan doesn’t develop the school will close June 30, 2016, school board officials have decided. Read mor...

Public meeting The fate of Barrie Central Collegiate presented tonight 6 p.m. at the school board office in Midhurst. ARC (Accommodation Review Committee) present which of eight inter-related recommendations will be considered.   By MARG. BRUINEMAN, BARRIE EXAMINER May 31 2011 Tonight’s the nig...

By Peter Tabuns MPP Town Crier May 19 It’s not every day that I write about small potato-growing communities.  But then it is not every day that companies arrive from the States to dig out millions of tons of limestone, and in the process, pump hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of water — each [&...

Council should have had public discussion, input on green space acquisition By DAN PELTON Orangeville Citizen May 26 2011 A Mono resident appeared at the town council meeting Tuesday to express concerns over the recent acquisition of a 60- acre (24.5-hectare) parcel of land on Hockley Road, adjacent ...

“EAT MY DUST” COULD WELL BE THE LEGACY OF OBSOLETE LAWS UNEARTHED IN MEGA-QUARRY FIGHT BY WAYNE ROBERTS NOW Magazine May 19 2011 The Ontario Election is still six months away, but the surprise candidate for most polarizing issue – likely to turn the political contest into an emotional cliffhanger sim...