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Chair Karen Redman 'focused' on her job as province looks to make big changes to regional governance
Under its proposed new Better Regional Governance Act, 2026, the province would have the power to appoint regional chairs in the regions of Durham, Halton, Muskoka, Peel, Waterloo and York as well as the warden of Simcoe County, it announced Thursday. Those ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/region-waterloo-chair-province-change-appoint-karen-redman-response-9.7152023?cmp=rss

CBC Canada 13h ago

Ontario announces plan to slash Niagara Region, Simcoe County councils and add 'strong chair' powers
Under its new Better Regional Governance Act, 2026, the province will also have the power to appoint regional chairs in Durham, Halton, Muskoka, Peel, Waterloo and York as well as the warden of Simcoe County, it announced Thursday
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/ontario-governance-structure-announcement-9.7151746?cmp=rss

Dorothea Lange 2d ago

American farmer near Durham, North Carolina

#American #Durham #NorthCarolina #America #DorotheaLange #theGreatDepression #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017763039/

David Allan 3d ago

Looking forward to the heady scent of Ramsoms accompanying springtime woodland walks at locations like this in East Durham, NE England.
Better known as 'Wild Garlic', I was surprised to discover the plant goes by quite a few other names. One such name is cow's leek as seemingly cows love to eat them.
I was reading that down in Devon, dairy farmers have occasionally had the milk of their herds rejected because of the garlic flavour imparted to it by the cows having grazed upon the plant.
I'm sure, with appropriate promotion, there is a marketing opportunity somewhere for garlic-flavoured milk!

#england #durham #spring #march2026 #ramsons #countryside #woodland #photography

David Allan 4d ago

A photograph I took of a long-abandoned farmstead on the bleak moors west of Edmundbyers, in NE England.
The 1911 census records 24-year-old Alexander David Peacock at this property. A lecturer in zoology, he was renting the property at the time as a retreat from life in Newcastle.
I reckon that if you were looking for a place to get away from it all, then this splendid isolated location would perfectly fit the bill, although I think that roof might need some attention first!

#england #durham #northpennines #abandoned #monochrome #photography

Lisa Lorenzin (she/her)5d ago

Gorgeous sunshine for the #NoKings protest in #Durham today! A bit chilly with the wind (and it kept trying to take apart my sign!), but we kept warm marching & singing. Amazingly, I still remember all the words to "Do You Hear The People Sing?"