FOCA Elert - July 2015

FOCA Elert - July 2015


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Lake Partner Program

Algonquin Land Claim AIP signed

Hydro rates

OPP report Boating Fatality Numbers

Cottage Succession Seminar: live or on DVD

Preventing Lyme Disease at the cottage

New Air Quality Notifications for Ontario

FOCA joins call for action on Great Lakes toxins

Trent Severn Waterway funding announcement

The FOCA Board of Directors

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Motion to widen TSW channel approved

Motion to widen TSW channel approved

Deepening and widening a precarious channel of the Trent-Severn Waterway near Port Severn can’t begin soon enough, says one marine carpenter who will no longer take his client’s large boat through it.

Read more

http://bit.ly/ZXI8ul Orillia Packet & Times
Great news for those who use Trent-Severn

The Trent-Severn Waterway may be open for business, but area boaters aren't sure how much it's going to be getting.

The Trent-Severn Waterway may be open for business, but area boaters aren't sure how much it's going to be getting.
http://bit.ly/1884UOr Barrie Examiner 


Effective this season, the waterway's 44 locks are opened two-and-a-half hours less each day.

Parks Canada, tasked with cutting $3 million from the waterway's budget, had originally proposed ending the season — which runs from Victoria Day to Thanksgiving long weekends — two weeks earlier and increasing both moorage and lockage fees, much to the outrage of recreational boaters, commercial operators and municipalities.

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Not a good thing. Between the low water levels for Lake Huron & Georgian Bay, and what the government is  doing to Trent-Severn, the fun is going out of boating. 

Negative reaction prompts change to proposed TSW fees

Negative reaction prompts change to proposed TSW fees 

Read the full story 

http://bit.ly/Yke2xW Orillia Packet and Times

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The cut in hours is not good, but at least they are not raising the rates through the roof

Thanks to all who let the government know their views on this

MPs fighting for waterway

MPs fighting for waterway

http://bit.ly/Q24TGn Midland Free Press

MPs Bruce Stanton, Rick Norlock, Dean Del Mastro and Barry Devolin delivered a recommendation Friday to federal environment minister Peter Kent, suggesting the government not go through with the proposed reductions.

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I hope they can get the government to change it's mind

Trent-Severn Waterway employees face layoffs

Trent-Severn Waterway employees face layoffs

http://bit.ly/P7LGR7 Barrie Examiner


Not a good thing. The waterway brings a lot of benefits to communities on it and around it. 


If you have been thinking of a trip on the Trent-Severn you might want to take it this year as it's schedule for next few years is up in the air.

Waterway workers bracing for budget cuts

Waterway workers bracing for budget cuts

http://bit.ly/LgEFMi Orillia Packet and Times

I hope this does not affect the Trent-Severn too much.

Trent Severn opens this Friday

Trent Severn opens this Friday

http://bit.ly/J6rjmo Midland Freepress

Good News for our boaters

Parks Canada Faces Significant Budget Cuts

Parks Canada Faces Significant Budget Cuts

Parks Canada has been hit hard by the latest wave of federal budget cuts and boaters are almost sure to feel the blow.
Lock masters and operators for the Trent-Severn and Rideau canals in Ontario and the Chambly Canal in Quebec recently received notice their jobs could be cut. Although no official announcements have yet been made, numerous reports suggest this will mean a shorter season and possibly shorter hours

http://bit.ly/JJKroZ Boater News

This may well effect the Trent-Severn Waterway.