WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. government took gray wolves living near the Great Lakes off its list of endangered species on Monday and also proposed removing protections for similar wolves near the Rocky Mountains.
HALIBURTON COUNTY - The Ontario government is taking the next step towards selecting a new operator for the Leslie M. Frost Centre, Minister of Public Infrastructure Renewal David Caplan announced today.
"We are enthused by the fact that in this new legislation, the government has committed to making ecological integrity the overriding principle for management decisions in our provincial parks and our protected areas."
The Ontario government's vision for taming urban sprawl in the greater Golden Horseshoe is made up of "complete communities" where people could live, work and shop without ever having to get in their car.
hinjo Gombu. Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont.: Jun 1, 2006. pg. A.01
Local councillors in the suburban cities and towns bordering Toronto get the bulk of their campaign funds - in one case as high as 96.7 per cent - from corporate contributions, primarily from developers.
Regardless of whether or not you support the practice of shooting thousands of cormorants at Presqu'ile each year, it's increasingly difficult to find anything positive to say about the way Ontario Parks and MNR has conducted this sorry affair.
The environment ministry has quietly approved a new Big Pipe sewer link along 19th Ave. in Richmond Hill that critics say violates the Oak Ridges Moraine Act.
Property rights plank will trample greenbelt and kill gun ban
Does legislation designed to benefit society as a whole outweigh the financial interests of the individual? When dealing with issues of the environment and gun control, the answer has generally been yes in Canada. The looming spectre of a majority for Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, however, has put that value in jeopardy.
