Tag: Greenbelt
Candidates target PC Party at Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound meeting
Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative Party and local candidate Paul Vickers were on everyone else’s radar during a Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound all-candidates meeting in Keady on Wednesday night. Seven of the eight candidates registered in the riding took part in the event put on by the Grey and Bruce County federations of agriculture in front of about […]
What if they held an Ontario election and nobody noticed?
Ontarians will be headed to the polls next week, and you’d be forgiven for not noticing. Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, seeking a third straight majority mandate, triggered a snap election more than a year before the scheduled vote, plunging Ontario into a subdued campaign hampered by blizzard conditions and drowned out by U.S. President […]
Baranyai: Ford’s impact on education defiles Davis’s legacy
Attacks on education funding and delivery have provoked waves of job action, and destabilized the college system built by his own party.
Ontario election: Is the NDP’s London fortress facing a Tory threat?
It’s early, but the Progressive Conservative blue wave that may wash over Ontario this provincial election just might hit the little island of orange that is London. The three London-only ridings are NDP-held in a region that’s otherwise a Tory stronghold. But early aggregate polling for the Feb. 27 election has the PCs leading in […]
Conservation organizations partner to protect land near Stokes Bay
Donations and government grants have secured a 19.6-acre swath of coastal fen and forest on the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula. On Tuesday, the Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy and the Greenough and North Bruce Wilderness Alliance (the Wilderness Alliance) announced the Simon Bay Coastal Fen and Forest Nature Preserve, located near Stokes Bay, is now preserved land. “Protecting […]