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By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
Aug 17th, 2023
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 Simcoe-Grey MPP Brian Saunderson in Collingwood last year for a local event. Erika Engel/CollingwoodToday Barrie MPPs Doug Downey and Andrea Khanjin have their say on the Greenbelt report. | Bob Bruton/BarrieToday Simcoe North MPP Jill Dunlop and Premier Doug Ford are shown in a file photo. | Image ...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Barrie
Aug 17th, 2023
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Homes under construction in south-end Barrie. Raymond Bowe/BarrieToday From BarrieToday, August 9, 2023 By Bob Bruton The County of Simcoe has another ally at this year’s Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference, its council heard Tuesday. Kate Burns Gallagher, executive director of ...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
Aug 17th, 2023
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark speaking to reporters in Toronto on Sept. 10, 2018. | Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press From BarrieToday, August 11, 2023 By Charlie Pinkerton EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new ...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
Aug 17th, 2023
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford listens as Ontario’s minister of housing Steve Clark speaks during a press conference in Mississauga, Ont., Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. | Cole Burston/The Canadian Press From BarrieToday, August 11, 2023 By Aidan Chamandy EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Tri...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
Aug 17th, 2023
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The federal government has taken an important step toward reducing climate damaging emissions from electricity production with newly released rules that could help set the stage for meeting our energy needs with zero carbon electricity. As proposed, the federal Clean Electricity Regulations will lead...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
Aug 17th, 2023
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BTC Presents – Kiss The Ground Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and ground-breaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis. By regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Development
Aug 17th, 2023
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BREAKING: a damning report from Ontario’s Auditor General confirms what we’ve long suspected. A few chosen developers received “preferential treatment” to hand-pick 92% of the land that Doug Ford’s government removed from the Greenbelt. [1] Now, those developers stand to make $8 billion from that lan...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
Aug 15th, 2023
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We hope you are enjoying your summer, the hottest summer on Earth, as  this July is the hottest month ever recorded on Earth—and likely the hottest in about 120,000 years. We are continually grateful to be living in a country with an abundance of natural resources: forests, freshwater, clean air. But...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Agriculture
Aug 15th, 2023
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Come stand in solidarity with the Land Alliance to protect their lands and waters! Date: Wednesday September 27th, 2023 Time: 12pm Location: Downtown Toronto Sign up: https://freegrassy.net/land-alliance-march/ RSVP For September 27th On September 27th, 12 pm 2023 five First Nations from Northern Ont...
By AWARE Simcoe
In AWARE News Network
Aug 15th, 2023
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Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk (left) and Premier Doug Ford will address the long-awaited report into the controversial Greenbelt land swap on Wednesday. Star wire services Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives “favoured certain developers” in a controversial $8.28-billion Greenbelt land swap r...