Great Lakes

Cottages and forest along Georgian Beach south of the location of the proposed TC Energy Pumped Storage Project in Meaford, Ontario

Despite the risk of military explosives, TC Energy wants to build ‘Ontario’s battery’ on Georgian Bay

Nov. 23, 2023 40 min. read

Pumping water in and out of a National Defence site in Meaford could be a...

A greenhouse in the Ontario region of Windsor Essex

Lake Erie is full of algae again. Southwestern Ontario’s exploding greenhouse sector won’t help

By Matt McIntosh

Oct. 16, 2023 16 min. read

Essex County says it doesn’t have the power to stop nutrient-rich water from greenhouse farms...

Beachgoers at Long Point provincial park often climb the sand dunes to seek shade. Signs about the dunes' fragility are few, and light on information.

Footprints in the sand: what you don’t know can really hurt the Great Lakes’ fragile dunes

By Denise Balkissoon

Aug. 8, 2023 9 min. read

From accelerating erosion to introducing invasive species, there are a whole lot of reasons for...

Industrial Plastics Canada's new factory site near Circle Lake, Ont.

North Bay residents organize town hall to discuss PFAS, Industrial Plastics Canada factory

By Leah Borts-Kuperman (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

July 20, 2023 12 min. read

Some residents of North Bay, Ont., are expressing doubts about Mayor Peter Chirico’s defense of...

From plovers to friends: how a feathery love triangle spurred Canada and the U.S. to save tiny endangered birds

July 19, 2023 10 min. read

After a love triangle among the endangered species causes a heartbroken mother to fly the...

Kids fish for rock bass, pike and muskie in Trout Lake, near North Bay. The lake and other Nipissing District waterways are contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, from a foam that was used to train firefighters by the Department of National Defence. Under existing legislation, a new plastics factory using PFAS opening up near the city is not required to do an environmental assessment.

Chemicals are forever: a new factory opens near Lake Nipissing, where water is already contaminated

By Leah Borts-Kuperman (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

July 6, 2023 18 min. read

Imagine driving down a two-lane road on a sunny day in northeastern Ontario, just east...

Ontario has the longest shoreline along the northern expanse of the Great Lakes. Local politicians, environmental experts and policy researchers say Bill 23 makes the future health of that shoreline unclear.

Ontario town seeks allies in Quebec and U.S. to protect Great Lakes from Bill 23

May 12, 2023 6 min. read

A tiny Georgian Bay township hopes 200 Great Lakes leaders will jointly urge Ontario to...

Recent changes to conservation authority powers mean the watershed management bodies can no longer review applications that could impact significant woodlots, valley lands, fish habitat or species at risk, even though many of those concerns are intertwined with leaving land able to absorb water.

Who should pay when development causes floods?

By Denise Balkissoon

March 4, 2023 21 min. read

As Ontario gears up to build intensely, the federal government is trying to reduce its...

Lake Ontario in the winter

Where does the poop go, Ontario?

By Karan Saxena

Feb. 2, 2023

In our latest newsletter, reporter Fatima Syed talks about what could clog up Ontario’s Great...

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