By Jeff Gray Globe and Mail May 11 2017 The chief architect of Ontario’s farmland-protecting Greenbelt is speaking out against what he calls a “misleading” campaign being waged by the development industry and aimed at blaming the province’s anti-sprawl policies for the Toronto area’s skyrocketing hou...
AWARE Simcoe News Network The following motion is to be debated tomorrow – Tuesday June 27 – by Simcoe County Council, meeting in Committee of the whole: Moved By: Councillor French That the County put a pause on the development plans for the ERRC until such time as County Council has bee...
From the Council of Canadians The Council of Canadians is condemning the Trudeau government’s response to the review on the Navigation Protection Act and its announcement that it will leave 99% of waterways unprotected in Canada. This move breaks the Liberal promise to restore protections lost when t...
AWARE News Network Dr. William Shotyk, Bocock chair of Agriculture and the Environment at the University of Alberta, will appear before Springwater Township Council to talk about the aquifer that, for decades, was threatened by Simcoe County’s plan for Dump Site 41. In 2006, Shotyk, the owner of an a...
Black Tern chicks and parent -Jennifer Howard photo By Kate Harries Springwater News The elegant and acrobatic Black Tern is a species of special concern in Ontario – but Tiny Marsh has a healthy breeding population of these interesting birds. Dave Moore of the Canadian Wildlife Service, who is leadi...
from Friends of Simcoe Forests ►►► VERY IMPORTANT MEETING ALERT ►►► RE: PROPOSED ERRC (Environmental Resource Recovery Centre) AT 2976 HORSESHOE VALLEY ROAD WEST (FREELE FOREST) The Township of Springwater will be holding a public meeting on Monday June 19, 2017 at 6:30pm in the Springwater Administr...
Water Walker Josephine Mandamin calls for petition to be signed from Picking Up The Bundles Canoe Journey On behalf of Josephine Mandamin our fearless leader in this work for the Water, we’d like to share our initiative to begin another layer of what we must do for the Water. It is our hope tha...
from Concerned Citizens in Adjala Tosorontio CCAT Inc., in our ongoing efforts to raise funds for a lawyer to accompany us to the OMB in November in our fight against the proposed Nelson pit, are having a Silent Auction and Pasta Festa at the Everett Legion on Saturday, June 10th from 6 – 9pm. See [&...
William Shotyk, right, addresses Tiny Township Council. Vickie Monague of Beausoleil First Nation, known for her role in stopping Dump Site 41, is at left, live streaming the presentation. ‘There are people in the world who would give a limb to have water like this’ By Kate Harries ̵...
AWARE News Network The Ontario government has announced it will abolish the pro-sprawl Ontario Municipal Board, replacing it with a new entity called the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal. It appears the OMB’s practice of arbitrarily reversing a municipal council decisions will be ended and the new body...
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