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Mar 8th, 2011
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"If the transport stops bringing food in, you have enough food to last you about four days"CATCH News - March 8 2011The city’s planning committee heard last week from Mike Nickerson, the author of Life, Money and Illusion: Living on Earth As If We Want to Stay. Excerpts from his presentation are repr...
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In Lakes
Mar 8th, 2011
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CBC News Mar 8, 2011 Two days of hearings into whether Bruce Power can ship radioactive waste through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway begin in Ottawa on Tuesday before a Commons committee. The shipments, which would carry 16 school bus-sized, radiation-contaminated steam generators from T...
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In Clearview
Mar 8th, 2011
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By Morgan Ian Adams Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin COLLINGWOOD – Ontario’s environment commissioner says it takes decades – even centuries – before a forest ecology can be re-established in an area that was once home to a woodland. Gord Miller was testifying Monday before the...
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In Lakes
Mar 8th, 2011
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Sierra Club Canada news release March 8, 2011 TORONTO – The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and Sierra Club Canada (SCC) announced today that they have jointly commenced legal proceedings in the Federal Court of Canada in relation to the controversial proposal by Bruce Power Inc. to shi...
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In Barrie
Mar 8th, 2011
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No policy regarding free use of facilities By BOB BRUTON Barrie Examiner March 8 2011 Barrie’s community grants program has gone from hero to zero. City councillors decided Monday to do away with the $100,000 fund, which is for community groups and organizations looking for money for their even...
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In Simcoe County
Mar 8th, 2011
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Letter to Simcoe.com March 6 2011 MIDLAND – An open letter to the mayor and deputy mayor of Midland. I was very surprised to hear the county has announced that garbage will now be a user-pay collection system. The warden put out a press release in which both of you endorsed the system “because reduci...
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In Lakes
Mar 7th, 2011
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News release from  Anishinabe Kweag March 6 2011Christian Island, ON – Anishinabe Kweag, the group of women who successfully protested Site 41 is calling on Bruce Power to halt its plans to ship 16 decomissioned nuclear steam generators of through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River....
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In Orillia
Mar 6th, 2011
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In-camera decision made with one at Good Roads conference, other not given chance to voteBy Sara ROSS The Orillia Packet & Times March 5 2001Two Orillia city councillors say they weren't given the opportunity to voice their opinion before city manager Ian Brown was fired.In an email sent to The Packe...
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In Collingwood
Mar 6th, 2011
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By Morgan Ian Adams Collignwood Enterprise Bulletin March 5 2011COLLINGWOOD - A councillor has put forward a motion to chop even more from the municipal budget....
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In Penetanguishene
Mar 6th, 2011
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By Nicole Million Simcoe.com Mar 04, 2011  Public consultation draws sparse crowd, but mayor positive ahead of budget vote PENETANGUISHENE – Municipal staff outnumbered members of the public two to one at Penetanguishene’s 2011 budget consultation last week, but council still deemed the meeting succe...