• Protecting Water and Farmland in Simcoe County

Recent Posts

By Admin
In Agriculture
Jan 10th, 2011
0 Comments
1587 Views
…Somebody turned our places to eat; our most valuable food lands, into parking lots… That is what our Epitaph will someday proudly read unless we wake up and pay attention to what is going on all around us. In the U.S.A. according to today’s Jan 10/11 Los Angeles Times (see story be...
By Admin
In Simcoe County
Jan 10th, 2011
0 Comments
950 Views
AWARE Simcoe January 10 2011The following is in response to requests from residents who have been unable to find the draft 2011 budget on the County of Simcoe website.Here's how: ...
By Admin
In Meetings, events
Jan 10th, 2011
0 Comments
1386 Views
Invitation from Ontario government January 4 2011The Minister of Infrastructure released Proposed Amendment 1 to the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, 2006 <https://www.placestogrow.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=210&Itemid=15>on October 28, 2010. Proposed Amendment 1 ...
By Admin
In Meetings, events
Jan 10th, 2011
0 Comments
1332 Views
Letter from Cindy Hilliard Transition Town Orillia January 6 2010What sustainability Plan? You mean we have one? That would mean there are possibilities for all of us to contribute. It is possible....  In the words of the famous musician Dave Matthews, "To change the world, start with one step, howev...
By Admin
In Water
Jan 9th, 2011
0 Comments
1495 Views
By Andrew Chung Toronto Star January 9 2011MONTREAL—Marie-Paule Spieser won’t drink water from a tap. Any tap. Anywhere. Such is the psychological legacy of learning 10 years ago that the well from which she and her young children were drawing their drinking water was laced with a toxic chemical, tri...
By Admin
In Governance
Jan 9th, 2011
0 Comments
1757 Views
The Canadian Press Jan 9 2011OTTAWA—A new study ranks Canada dead last in an international comparison of freedom-of-information laws — a hard fall after many years being judged a global model in openness. ...
By Admin
In Severn
Jan 9th, 2011
0 Comments
1493 Views
By NATHAN TAYLOR, THE PACKET & TIMES January 8 2010The concerns of residents in a south-end Severn Township neighbourhood will not be ignored, the mayor says.Lawrence Shaw has been on the township's case for four years about addressing the "disgraceful" road conditions and flooding situation in the a...
By Admin
In Barrie
Jan 9th, 2011
0 Comments
1107 Views
By BOB BRUTON BARRIE EXAMINER January 6 2011The city has shuffled its reference committees, which could give Barrie residents a better deal.“I want the reference committees to be a little bit more of ‘working’ committees — dealing on an ongoing basis with counc i l’s str...
By Admin
In Environment
Jan 9th, 2011
0 Comments
1529 Views
News release from the Peaceful Parks Coalition - Jabuary 8 2010 In October 2010, Peaceful Parks discovered the Legislation Act.  http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_06l21_e.htm#BK83 ...
By Admin
In Agriculture
Jan 9th, 2011
0 Comments
1751 Views
By Jessica Leeder Globe and Mail Jan 05, 2011 – As crime sagas go, a scheme rigged by a sophisticated cartel of global traders has all the right blockbuster elements: clandestine movements of illegal substances through a network of co-operatives in Asia, a German conglomerate, jet-setting executives,...