Tag: Municipalities
Bruce County’s draft official plans creates planning hurdles and red tape, lower-tier council says
The Town of South Bruce Peninsula is sounding the alarm and warning other lower-tier municipalities in Bruce County about what it calls an overly restrictive new draft of the county’s official plan. South Bruce Peninsula CAO Bill Jones said at a meeting earlier this month that planning hurdles introduced in the new draft plan would […]
London region population to boom by 50% over next 25 years: Queen’s Park
The booming London area will lead Southwestern Ontario in population growth over the next 25 years with an expected increase of more than 50 per cent, the latest snapshot from Queen’s Park projects.
In Old East Village, homeless reality collides with merchants’ concerns
Old East Village residents and businesses are set to weigh in on a multi-million-dollar proposal from a social service agency to add 90 new homeless shelter beds. Set for Wednesday are two public meetings hosted at the Old East Village Market at 630 Dundas St. by the neighbourhood business improvement area as well as Ark […]
Joliet, Illinois, Plans to Source Its Future Drinking Water From Lake Michigan. Will Other Cities Follow? | Great Lakes Now
By Nina Elkadi, Inside Climate News
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The aquifer from which Joliet, Illinois, sources its drinking water is likely going to run too dry to support the city by 2030—a problem more and more communities are facing as the climate changes and groundwater declines.
People gather in Grey-Bruce for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
For 16-year-old Jorja Wilson, Monday’s ceremony marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Owen Sound was an opportunity to educate others about something in her own family history that she knew little about until very recently. It was only a couple of days ago that the Neyaashiinigmiing teen found out that her ancestors […]
Protect Our Waterways to host speakers ahead of DGR vote
As a referendum vote nears on whether South Bruce residents want their municipality to be a willing host for a proposed deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel, a local group opposed to the project is holding an information event. Protect Our Waterways – No Nuclear Waste will hold its DGR information event on Oct. […]
Protect Our Waterways hosting speakers ahead of DGR vote
As a referendum vote nears on whether South Bruce residents want their municipality to be a willing host for a proposed deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel, a local group opposed to the project is holding an information event. Protect Our Waterways – No Nuclear Waste will hold its DGR information event on Oct. […]
Supportive Outreach Services program receives health award
A program that formed in Grey-Bruce in 2021 to help the marginalized residents of a rooming house that was going through a COVID-19 outbreak, has been recognized with a new award. The Supportive Outreach Services (SOS) program has been awarded an Ontario Health System Quality and Innovation Award for its success in improving the health outcomes […]
Grey Sauble Conservation office renovation clears big hurdle
Grey Sauble Conservation Authority’s directors are one decision away from signing off on a $3-million administration building renovation. Wednesday the board of eight municipal members agreed to proceed with final construction drawings and issue tenders for the project. The board would still have to select the successful bidder and vote in favour of the project. So far, […]
Groundwater: Who’s in charge? | Great Lakes Now
In the early 2000s a movement to address the plight of the heavily polluted and long neglected Great Lakes started to gain traction.
The goal was to bring the gravitas of the federal government to the issue and in 2004 President George W. Bush signed an executive order declaring the lakes a “national treasure.” An interagency task force was established to bring together the disparate efforts of various federal programs who had been working independently on Great Lakes issues.