Nov 25th, 2019
Map by TC Energy By Scott Dunn Owen Sound Sun Times October 23, 2019 It was standing room only at a recent meeting about a proposed hydroelectric pump storage plant on the military training centre in Meaford, a facility with a projected opening date of 2027. More than 200 residents packed the Meafor...
Aug 7th, 2019
Ontario Environment Minister Jeff Yurek and Agriculture Minister Ernie Hardeman were joined by local MPP Andrea Khanjin and Attorney General Doug Downey at Innisfil Creek Honey to announce new cost-share funding to support the health of the province’s beekeeping sector. Innisfil Creek owner Brian Sco...
May 6th, 2019
Maude Barlow EVENT 2 Women and Water – Kim Wheatley, Maude Barlow, Coco Love Alcorn Date and Time Wednesday, June 19 7:00 p.m. Location St. Paul’s Centre 62 Peter St. N., Orillia Description According to local indigenous teachings, women are the keepers of the water. We know, too, that w...
Apr 15th, 2019
Ontario Environment Minister Rod Phillips and Ontario Energy Minister Greg Rickford apply a “gasoline transparency sticker” to a gas pump in Oakville, Ont. on April 8, 2019. Rickford Twitter Photo By Allison Jones National Observer April 12 2019 Buried in Ontario’s budget bill are f...
Apr 7th, 2019
Anne Learn Sharpe of AWARE Essa Groups have until mid-July to submit proposals for seed plant property by Brad Pritchard Alliston Herald The future of the seed plant property in Angus remains as uncertain since the day its closure was announced a year and a half ago. The province says it’s now in the...
Mar 10th, 2019
Patrick Lane delivered this ‘Open Letter to All the Wild Creatures of the Earth’ to university students in 2013. AWARE News Network Poet and author Patrick Lane died on March 7, 2019. This is his convocation address to the University of Victoria on November 13, 2013. It is sixty-five yea...
Jan 27th, 2019
AWARE News Network Deadline for comment on the Ford government’s Made-in-Ontario Environment Plan was Monday January 28, midnight. This is a download of Ontario’s EnvironmentPlan This is a link to the posting of the plan on the Environmental Registry of Ontario. SCGC submission on Ontario...
Jan 15th, 2019
Brant MPP Will Bouma By Adam Ballah and Margaret Prophet, Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition There has been a lot of controversy recently regarding Premier Ford’s proposed Bill 66, also called “An Act to Restore Ontario’s Competitiveness”. On the surface, it is presented as a way to increase employmen...
Jan 15th, 2019
Around 250 people packed an Ajax banquet hall for an in-depth look at Bill 66. Former Ajax mayor, Steve Parish, was there, as was Oakville’s mayor, Rob Burton. -Land Over Landings photo from Mike Douglas Concerned Citizens of Ramara The Environmental Defence meeting focusing on Stop Bill 66 took plac...
Jan 8th, 2019
AWARE News Network See video on Youtube An AWARE Simcoe member has sent the following email to the parties responsible in the arrests of indigenous people defending their land in British Columbia. You too can let them know how you feel! PM Justin Trudeau, firstname.lastname@example.org MP Carolyn Bennett,...