Waterlution, in partnership with Greatness – The Great Lakes Project, is looking for one local artist in each of these communities across Ontario—Thunder Bay, Manitoulin…
The fate and ecosystem integrity of the Great Lakes Basin is more dubious than ever now that decision makers in the U.S. are weakening measures…
A survey conducted by the BLOOM Centre for Sustainability has found that the majority of craft breweries in Ontario understand the need to improve their…
The International Joint Commission (IJC) has released its draft Triennial Assessment of Progress (TAP) report, in which it found much to commend on the progress…
Four of the five Great Lakes help to define the U.S.-Canada border; but what separates our two countries brings them together as well. The Great…
Researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology have used computer models to estimate the volume of plastic and microplastics entering the Great Lakes each year.…
Ontario has released its Minister’s Annual Report on Lake Simcoe for 2015. The report provided an update on government efforts since the release of their…
In its most recent newsletter, the Intergovernmental Joint Commission presented an updated assessment of the climate science being done in the Great Lakes basin. The…
A new paper released this week demonstrates how even small changes in water clarity over time can have big impacts on water temperatures. In a…
In Dartmouth, the Lake Major Water Treatment plant supplies a number of communities. At present, the elevation of Lake Major has dropped steadily since mid-August. Lake elevation currently sits at half a meter less than it did in 2015, having an elevation of approximately eighteen and a half meters compared to nineteen this time last year.
A light breeze from the southwest catches the sails of our Catalina 42 as we manoeuvre her bow into the wind under the direction of…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has announced the recipients of Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) grants totalling more than $2 million to 13 cities…
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, MP Bob Nault of Kenora, and the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Dominic LeBlanc announced this week…
The federal government has announced that it is taking action to address water quality and ecosystem health issues in Lake of the Woods. The government…
The governments of Canada and the United States today announced that they have identified eight substances as chemicals of mutual concern under the Canada-U.S. Great…
Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell met with 100 teachers at Brantford Collegiate Institute this week at a two-day event aimed at empowering teachers to incorporate…
A new report calling on the government to make changes to the Fisheries Act is gaining support among a large number of Canadian scientists, First Nations groups,…
In anticipation of the upcoming federal election, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative—a binational coalition of over 110 U.S. and Canadian mayors and local…
Researchers in Manitoba are using “fingerprinting” technology to determine the source of phosphorous in Lake Winnipeg that is negatively impacting water quality. Nutrients entering Lake…
Several Canadian mayors visited Parliament Hill on April 3, 2014 to make a case for better protection of the bodies of water for the first ever…
The Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) research centre—a collection of 58 lakes in northwestern Ontario where scientists have conducted environmental research for more than 40 years—is…
On October 29, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative sent letters asking regulators and industry to commit to cleaning up microplastics in the…
As part of a large scale project to improve the water quality of Williams Lake in central British Columbia, construction is set to begin on…
The International Joint Commission (IJC) has recommended that the governments of Canada and the United States consider structural options for raising the water levels in…