• Protecting Water and Farmland in Simcoe County

Recent Posts

By Admin
In Indigenous
Jan 9th, 2012
0 Comments
1365 Views
News release from Anishinabek Nation - Jan 5 2012UOI OFFICES, NIPISSING FN – Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Patrick Madahbee says that First Nations in the Anishinabek Nation Territory have been opposed to nuclear waste storage sites since 2004....
By Admin
In Oro-Medonte
Jan 8th, 2012
0 Comments
1392 Views
Former councillor says a smoke screen is in effect Letter to the Orillia Packet and Times Re: Oro-Medonte MOU a mediation success story (Letter to the editor, Jan. 4) Mr. John Connor’s assessment of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) issue reminds me of that old joke, “The operation wa...
By Admin
In Meetings, events
Jan 8th, 2012
0 Comments
1076 Views
Email from North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance January 8 2012This Tuesday  (January 10), Jack Gibbons  will be speaking to the South Lake Simcoe Naturalists about Metrus Developments’ proposal to build a 1,073 home subdivision within a provincially significant wetland in the North Gwillimbury Forest in...
By Admin
In Barrie
Jan 8th, 2012
0 Comments
974 Views
Revisions to Barrie’s 2012 business/capital plan in the works By BOB BRUTON – Barrie Examiner January 7 2012 What stays, and what goes, can be contentious in every city operating budget. And the program changes to be considered in Barrie’s 2012 business/capital plan are no different, even...
By Admin
In Quarries
Jan 7th, 2012
0 Comments
1020 Views
Letters to the Toronto Star January 7 2011 Re: Anatomy of a quarry fight, Dec. 31 Thanks for a well researched and well written article about the possibility of mass aggregate extraction in Melancthon. The thought of such a large mass of arable land being destroyed in the name of aggregate extraction...
By Admin
In Barrie
Jan 7th, 2012
0 Comments
948 Views
Younger population means large workforce By CHERYL BROWNE – Barrie Examiner January 7 2012 Statistics Canada is helping turn Barrie’s job stats from a positive into a negative. Upon hearing the news that Barrie’s unemployment numbers dropped almost a full percentage point, from 11.1...
By Admin
In Barrie
Jan 7th, 2012
0 Comments
1041 Views
Potentially hazardous material discovered inside former waste management plant By IAN?MCINROY – Barrie Examiner January 7 2012 Hazardous material first located at a Churchill Drive business in south-end Barrie on Wednesday night did not pose a public health risk, city officials said Friday afte...
By Admin
In Barrie
Jan 7th, 2012
0 Comments
1016 Views
Finding accommodation in Barrie becoming more difficult By Ian McInroy – Barrie Examiner January 6 2011 Paul Forget is grateful to have what most people take for granted. The 50-year-old feels fortunate being able to call a single room in a Mary Street rooming house his home. Read more ...
By Admin
In New Tecumseth
Jan 7th, 2012
0 Comments
1161 Views
New Tecumseth Free Press January 3, 2012 New Tecumseth council is scheduled to take its first look at the draft 2012 municipal operating, capital, water and wastewater budget estimates tomorrow night. Read more ...
By Admin
In Simcoe County
Jan 5th, 2012
0 Comments
844 Views
Elmvale Foundation abandons plan for water research centre at Site 41AWARE Simcoe Janary 5 2011Dr. William Shotyk, president of the Elmvale Foundation, has notified Simcoe County Council that his board has withdrawn from the plan to create a water research centre of the land once intended for Dump Si...