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By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
Jun 8th, 2023
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Register Now for our ‘Ditch the Plastic in Your Life’ Webinar In this next installment of our Waste Reduction Series, Greys for Green will discuss the following: How plastic is harmful to our health How to avoid its harmful chemicals, and reduce plastic waste.   When: June 13, 2023 | 07:00 PM to...
By AWARE Simcoe
In AWARE News Network
Jun 8th, 2023
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We already know the truth about RBC: the largest funder of fossil fuels in the world, a major investor in the Coastal Gas Link pipeline, all being hidden behind a slick greenwashing campaign that’s so egregious, even the Canadian government is investigating the bank over it. [1,2] RBC’s PR team...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
Jun 8th, 2023
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By Dylan Penner Climate and Social Justice Campaigner The Council of Canadians You and I know that oil and gas CEOs have profited immensely for decades from activities that are fueling the climate crisis and polluting the land and water. Big Oil CEOs are using their influence to extract tax breaks an...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
Jun 8th, 2023
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Wasaga Beach Climate Action Team June 2023 Newsletter As summer is coming, we are starting to see the effects of climate change for this season across the country: warmer and dryer temperatures, forest fires from east to west (2214 wildfires and 3.3 Million hectares already burned so far this year in...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Agriculture
Jun 4th, 2023
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From the Ontario Headwaters Institute Please see the submission from the Coalition of Ontario Water Guardians and sign the petition to support its four recommendations on the Province’s latest disaster on land use planning, which seeks to amalgamate the Provincial Policy Statement with A Place to Gro...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Governance
Jun 4th, 2023
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From Simcoe.com, June 2, 2023 A letter by Alex Nicholls, Midland Doug Ford is intent on trying to sell privatization as a solution to the health-care crisis that he has directly caused. He claims there is no money to pay our nurses, doctors and technicians, after cutting their budget by $21 billion —...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Adjala-Tosorontio
Jun 4th, 2023
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Steve Clark (left), Ontario’s minister of municipal affairs and housing, will be receiving a letter based on a motion by Clearview Township Mayor Doug Measures that was passed May 23 by Simcoe County council. From Simcoe.com, May 24, 2023 By Travis Mealing Midland Mirror Steve Clark, Ontario...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Agriculture
Jun 4th, 2023
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Amy Cann is the director of planning and building for the Township of Clearview. – Township of Clearview photo From Simcoe.com, June 2, 2023 By Ian Adams Wasaga Sun Changes to Ontario’s policy statement on land-use planning could have dire consequences for Clearview Township’s agricultural land...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Clearview
Jun 4th, 2023
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The Town of Midland’s wastewater treatment plant is located at 200 Bay St. near the shores of Georgian Bay From Simcoe.com, June 2, 2023 By Andrew Mendler Midland Mirror Sewage dumping into Georgian Bay has decreased significantly in recent years. “It rarely happens now with all of the work we ...
By AWARE Simcoe
In Climate Change
Jun 4th, 2023
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By Angela Bischoff, Director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance It’s time for the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) to stop gaslighting our communities. On Dec. 23, 2022, Ontario Energy Minister Todd Smith told the IESO in no uncertain terms that new gas plants and gas plant expansions re...