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NEWs in BRIEF – Weigh in on future of Lake Ontario Park
Kingston This Week, Canada January 15
The Kingston meeting is part of a 15-city speaking tour with Maude Barlow, senior advisor on water to the president of the UN General Assembly and national …
http://www.kingstonthisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1389167
Bottle deal under fire
Sarnia Observer, Canada January 15
Sarnia’s new recycling agreement with the bottled water industry is a “deal with the devil,” says Canadian social activist Maude Barlow. …
http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1388756
City applauded for efforts to cut back bottled water
Guelph Mercury, Canada January 15
Council of Canadians national chair Maude Barlow made her message quite clear to a packed house at Norfolk United Church last night. …
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/427093
Campaign aims to staunch bottled water sales
Hamilton Spectator, Canada January 15
“We are feeling a tremendous surge around this. Ontario is already taking the lead across the country,” said Maude Barlow, national chairperson for the Council of Canadians. http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/496410
Bottled water ban deferred
London Free Press, Canada 14 Jan 2009
Maude Barlow, senior adviser on water to the United Nations, spoke at the Aeolian Performing Arts Centre where she encouraged the public to turn to public drinking water over water from plastic bottles as part of her 15-city speaking tour with CUPE Ontario president Sid Ryan.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/01/14/8015661-sun.html
Activists seek ban on bottled water
Windsor Star, Canada – 13 Jan 2009
It was the first stop in a 15-city talking tour held by the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, whose main goal boils down to one thing: the end of bottled water
About 130 people poured into Club Alouette to hear a panel of speakers including Ryan and Maude Barlow, national chairwoman of the Council of Canadians.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=5ef96c07-fa04-4376-95f2-8a2cea996ffc
UN water adviser to meet with trustees
London Free Press, Canada – 12 Jan 2009
The Thames Valley District school board could vote to ban vending and cafeteria sales of single-use water bottles when the issue comes up tonight
Council of Canadians president Maude Barlow, senior adviser on water to the United Nations, is in London today on a 15-city speaking tour to encourage people to stop drinking bottled water
Trustees requested a private session with the well-known activist and will speak to her before their own meeting. “This is a tremendous opportunity,” said London trustee Peggy Sattler, who supports phasing in a ban on plastic water bottles.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/01/13/8003591-sun.html
Expert tours Ontario to promote tap water
Water Technology Online, NY – 12 Jan 2009
WINDSOR , ONTARIO Water expert Maude Barlow, who was named the United Nations (UN) first senior adviser on water issues last October, kicked off a tour of 15 Ontario cities with a January 12 visit here, The Star of Toronto reported on January 12.
http://www.watertechonline.com/news.asp?N_ID=71230
Unbottle It Tour
CKTB, Canada – 12 Jan 2009
Maude Barlow, of the Council of Canadians, and Sid Ryan, of CUPE, are calling on people to kick the water bottle habit and Tap into public drinking water
http://www.610cktb.com/node/856725
Provincial tour promotes tap water
The Kingston Whig-Standard, Canada – 12 Jan 2009
The banning of plastic water bottles had become such a hot topic in 2008 that water expert Maude Barlow decided to keep the debate alive with a 15-city tour of Ontario cities, beginning in Windsor today, with a plan to promote the merits of maintaining “safe and affordable” tap water.
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1383168
Are there water wars in our future?
Guelph Mercury, Canada – 12 Jan 2009
Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians and one of the world’s leading experts on the topic of water, has recently been appointed as senior adviser to the president of the Assembly of the United Nations. She will be in Guelph at the Norfolk United Church at 7 p.m. Wednesday as part of a 15-city tour of Ontario
CUPE Ontario and the Council of Canadians co-sponsored the Unbottle It! Tour. Sid Ryan, president of CUPE Ontario, will also be speaking.
http://news.guelphmercury.com/Opinions/article/425777
Tour aims to promote ban of plastic water bottles
Toronto Star, Canada – 12 Jan 2009
The banning of plastic water bottles is such a hot topic that water expert Maude Barlow decided to keep the debate alive with a 15-city tour of Ontario cities, beginning in Windsor today, with a plan to promote the merits of maintaining safe and affordable tap water.
http://www.thestar.com/article/569250
Barlow, Ryan to back bottled water bans
Hamilton Spectator, Canada – 10 Jan 2009
Maude Barlow and Sid Ryan will be in town next week urging Hamiltonians to stop buying water in bottles.
http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/493783
Council of Canadians hosts new south Niagara chapter
Welland Tribune, Canada – 9 Jan 2009
Concerned and interested citizens from across the region gathered last night for the founding meeting of the south Niagara chapter of the Council of Canadians
[contact for the new chapter, Fiona McMurran] said the council’s south Niagara chapter is initiated just in time for members to hear the council’s national chair, Maude Barlow, speak next week in Niagara
On Jan. 16 at Brock University, Barlow will be speaking alongside Ontario Canadian Union of Public Employees leader Sid Ryan about banning bottled water.
http://www.wellandtribune.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1381439
Bottled-water campaign headed for Windsor
Windsor Star – January 09, 2009
An environmental leader urging municipalities to ban bottled water will be in Windsor Monday. Maude Barlow, national chairwoman of the Council of Canadians, speaks at 7 p.m. at Club Alouette
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=f9a699bf-33c4-4842-931f-4fecbf0ee09e
Speakers urge support for public water
Niagara This Week – St. Catharines – January 09, 2009
Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, and Sid Ryan, president of CUPE Ontario, will be the guest speakers at a forum titled “Unbottle It”, which seeks to retain confidence in municipal water distribution systems.
http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/article/230079
