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08/21/2026

See the full poster athttps://ontarioheadwaters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Vote-for-Healthy-Watersheds-and-Abundant-Clean-Drinking-Water.pdf

It can also be found on our Linktree at linktr.ee/ohi

08/10/2026

We thank all the signatories and have sent in our final submission - directly to the Canadian and Ontario ministers responsible for the environment:

Dear Ministers Dabrusin and McCarthy,

We take the liberty of writing directly to you because the issues of concern to us, and the more than 150 signatories in our email campaign on the Canada-Ontario Agreement on Great Lakes Water Quality and Ecosystem Health (COA), require both policy leadership and appropriate funding from the highest level.

That leadership cannot come from your staff, whom we copy, for whom we have great admiration but believe are constrained by a lack of both government vision and adequate resources.

See the full submission athttps://ontarioheadwaters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/OHI-to-Ministers-on-the-Renewal-of-COA-Aug-8.pdf

07/16/2026

Old swimming holes are polluted; municipalities are running out of water; our forests are on fire; and the sky is orange. There is another way: support watershed security. See https://ontarioheadwaters.ca/watershed-security-project.../ and donate to the Ontario Headwaters Institute.We need to do better.

We are pleased to announce that two Watershed Guardian awards for exceptional work on watershed security will be present...
07/03/2026

We are pleased to announce that two Watershed Guardian awards for exceptional work on watershed security will be presented to individuals living in the Grand Watershed on July 8 at a reception in Waterloo being hosted by Our Living Waters. The recipients, John Jackson and Kevin Thomason, are long-standing, well-known, and accomplished advocates in many aspects of watershed security, from toxic chemicals and land use planning to protecting farmland and the Great Lakes.

See their certificates on our website: https://ontarioheadwaters.ca/

As we pause to celebrate the 159th birthday of our great federation, we wish everyone a Happy Canada Day and ask "What d...
07/01/2026

As we pause to celebrate the 159th birthday of our great federation, we wish everyone a Happy Canada Day and ask "What do we wish for the future"?

Among many priorities, such as peace, security, and the rule of law, one bubbles to the top for the OHI: that Canada and its provinces and territories join Quebec in enshrining the human right to clean water in legislation.

Removing it from the draft First Nations Clean Water Act is exactly the wrong way to go: access to clean water should be a birthright for all Canadians. ;

36mAs we pause to celebrate the 159th birthday of our great federation

As we pause to celebrate the 159th birthday of our great federation, we wish everyone a Happy Canada Day and ask "What d...
07/01/2026

As we pause to celebrate the 159th birthday of our great federation, we wish everyone a Happy Canada Day and ask "What do we wish for the future"?

Among many priorities, such as peace, security, and the rule of law, one bubbles to the top for the OHI: that Canada and its provinces and territories join Quebec in enshrining the human right to clean water in legislation.

Removing it from the draft First Nations Clean Water Act is exactly the wrong way to go: access to clean water should be a birthright for all Canadians. ;

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