Solidarity march in Smithers, BC last year –Canadian Press photo By Martin Lukacs and Shiri Pasternak The Narwhal February 7 2020 The B.C. government and corporate lobbyists representing major resource industries sought the “surrender” of First Nations land rights immediately following the Delg...
Wet’suwet’en First Nation supporters at the city hall rotunda in Barrie, February 8, 2020. -Shawn Gibson/BarrieToday AWARE News Network The following motion has been passed by the AWARE Simcoe board of directors: “AWARE Simcoe supports the Wet’suwet’en Peoples’ right to free, prior ...
Gillian Flies and Brent Preston of Creemore are members of Farmers for Climate Solutions. They call for new policies and a larger voice for farmers in addressing climate change. -CBC photo By Nick Boisvert CBC News February 11, 2020 After trudging through the thick layer of snow blanketing his farmla...
Freda Huson (Howilhkat), director of the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre, is arrested Monday -Amanda Follett Hosgood photo / The Tyee By Nora Loreto National Observer It took longer than it should have, but Canadians are finally paying attention to the struggle at Wet’suwet’en. The hereditary chiefs and s...
It starts at the table From the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition An hour and a half north of Toronto there is a constant stream of cars pulling over to the side of the road. People get out, walk to the back of their vehicle, open the trunk and lift out jugs, which they carry to […]...
Lake Huron – Kevin M Klerks photo It cannot have been easy for a small First Nation to reject $150 million – Let’s find ways (including financial) to show our gratitude by JOYCE NELSON Counterpunch A major victory for Canada’s First Nations has just been won in Ontario. On January 31, the...
The following is an Objector’s Response to a January 3 2020 letter from CRH Canada Group Inc. Objectors (there are 178) are those who registered in a process under the Aggregate Resources Act. Those who did not register can’t respond under this process but can continue to fight to protect the water i...
Canada recycles just 9 per cent of its plastics with the rest dumped in landfill and incinerators or tossed away as litter. Could Sweden, with less than 1% of household garbage sent to landfill, have the answer? From BBC World Service With countries shutting their doors to foreign recyclable waste a...
Waste Transfer Station New Tecumseth Free Press Online Simcoe County councillors approved in committee this morning pushing forward with designing three transfer stations at sites in Bradford, Midland, and Stayner at a cost of $185,000 to coincide with the move to biweekly garbage and recycling colle...
Tiny Township Council in session yesterday Updated January 29 2020 with council motion/ staff report PD 004-20 and the township response letter. Scroll down. Note, the staff report, as approved, calls for staff to work with township lawyer Barriston to prepare minutes of settlement and report back ...
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