Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Message in a Bottle
When Dr. Sherri Mason and her team cast a net into three Great Lakes last July, scouring for debris, they weren’t sure what to expect.…
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Canada Water Act 2012 Annual Report Findings Released
The Canada Water Act’s annual report from April 2011 to March 2012 was released with intentions to highlight collaborations between federal, provincial, and territorial governments.…
Canada’s Top Water Projects 2013
For a long time, water and wastewater systems have been developed and redeveloped on a piecemeal basis, says Shane Freitag, a partner at Borden Ladner…
Community Funding Announced for Lake Simcoe Clean-Up
Community-based clean-up projects in Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay can now access financing through the federal Lake Simcoe/South-eastern Georgian Bay Clean-Up Fund. The five-year plan…
Environment Canada and Hamilton Port Authority Launch Randle Reef Test Project
Environment Canada and the Hamilton Port Authority are launching a structural test project that will provide further information to help in the development of the…
Curbing the Flow
Bordered by two countries, eight states, one province, and more than a hundred municipalities, the Great Lakes hold more than a fifth of the planet’s…
Canada and U.S. Come Together to Control Asian Carp
Canada has joined the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ACRCC), the latest step in the United States’ effort to ensure comprehensive action to protect the…
Harper Launches Phase Two Lake of Winnipeg Cleanup
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced federal support for the second phase of the Lake Winnipeg Basin Initiative (LWBI) which will focus on improving water quality…
McGuinty Government Launches Community Action Fund
The Ontario government issued a press release yesterday, announcing the launch of a new initiative designed to help communities protect their part of the Great…
Plenty of Room at the Table
For much of 2010, Tracey Carrigan, the Regional Municipality of York’s manager of environmental education and promotion, and her close-knit team of staff and industry…
2012 RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grants Announced
RBC has announced its 2012 RBC Blue Water Project Leadership Grant recipients. Thirty organizations from five countries, selected from 219 applicants from around the world,…
Invasive Species Centre Gets New Executive Director
Robert Lambe is the new executive director of the recently constructed Invasive Species Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. As the former regional director general…
Peninsula Harbour Sediment Capping Project Awarded to Milestone
Milestone Environmental Contracting Inc. has been awarded the contract to complete the capping of historically contaminated sediment in the Peninsula Harbour, which is a Great…
Ontario Too Slow: ECO’s Annual Report
Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner is worried that Ontario has lost momentum when it comes to the province’s pressing environmental issues. In his 2010/2011 Annual Report, titled…
Cultivating Growth
Situated in the agricultural heartland of Ontario, Rondeau Bay is an important ecosystem. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), it’s an important spawning…
How-To Strategies
Canada’s water resources scientists and engineers generally agree that climate change will have an impact on our water; however, we have not incorporated climate change…
Drinking Water Success in Ontario
Ontario continues to be a North American leader in providing clean, safe, and reliable drinking water to Ontarians, reads a press release from the Minister…
European State of Mind
Looking at a map of Canada’s many lakes and rivers may give the impression of a secure water future, but it’s a false sense of…
Heating Up
Canadian lakes, like those in other northern regions, are warming up faster than lakes further south, according to satellite data from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.…
Web Sense
The concept of transparency in government isn’t a new thing, but theory is always easier than practice. Just think of how the term “public consultation”…
Mayors Call for New Bi-National Commitment
Mayors of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative are calling on the American and Canadian federal governments to build on the U.S. Great…
Pond, Tunnel and Pipe
It wasn’t a happy day back in 1987 when the International Joint Commission (IJC) listed Toronto’s waterfront as one of 43 Areas of Concern in…
Finding Balance
When it comes to the Great Lakes, it’s all about balance. A recent United States Geological Survey five-year report on Great Lakes Basin water availability…
Ontario’s Environmental Failures
The government is failing to follow through on all of its environmental promises, says Ontario Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller. “This government rightly prides itself on…