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Dec 10th, 2022
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‘We are counting on you to protect the little bit of wildlife and habitat we have remaining in southern Ontario,’ groups tell federal minister Letter to the Editor,CollingwoodToday Dec 9 2022 Dear Minister Guilbeault, As Canada hosts an international conference on biodiversity, we thought...
Dec 10th, 2022
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‘This is not an ecologically sound bill,’ says mayor; City is calling on MPP Jill Dunlop to come to council to explain ‘logic and rationale’ behind Bill 23 Greg McGrath-Goudie Dec9 2022 Orillia’s city council has joined a growing number of Ontario municipalities that are speak...
Dec 10th, 2022
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The finding comes a day after an Ontario Superior Court justice struck down the Ford government’s Bill 124 wage restraint legislation. By Rob FergusonQueen’s Park Bureau,Toronto Star Kristin RushowyQueen’s Park Bureau, Toronto Star Wed., Nov. 30, 2022 Doctors were paid five times more tha...
Dec 10th, 2022
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Media Statement From: Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition, Forbid Roads Over Greenspaces, Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and Concerned Citizens of King Township Simcoe County, ON – On November 30th, the Auditor General of Ontario – an independent officer of the legislature who is tasked with ...
Dec 9th, 2022
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Bill 23 Ends Municipal Green Standards in Ontario – Updated November 28th, 2022 On November 28th, the Ontario government voted to pass Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act, at third reading. This means that no further amendments to the legislation will be made. The Bill will now go through Royal ...
Dec 9th, 2022
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‘Doug Ford, man of the people,’ is a lie – just as his promise to protect the Greenbelt was a lie,’ letter writer laments Letter to the Editor, from OrilliaMatters, Dec 6, 2022 Photo: Maija Hoggett/TimminsToday What happened to ‘For the People?’Five years after Ford took...
Dec 9th, 2022
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‘Community members … will no longer be able to participate in or challenge decisions that affect their own neighbourhoods,’ warns letter writer Letter to the Editor from MidlandToday, Nov 15, 2022 Map showing Ontario’s Greenbelt.Image courtesy of the Greenbelt Foundation The F...
Dec 8th, 2022
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No matter which explanation is offered, Steven Clark has shown himself unfit for this portfolio and ought to resign. By Steven Parish, Contributor From the St. Catherines Standard Fri., Dec. 2, 2022 photo: David Hawke I was involved in municipal politics in the GTA for 28 years, 23 of which I served ...
Dec 8th, 2022
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‘Democracy is being bled to death,’ says letter writer Letter to the Editor, Nov 18, 2022 From OrilliaMatters Stock photo:Donatello Trisolino via Pexels Probably most Ontarians, especially those near the GTA, know about Bill 23 and are aware that it will remove any input on development by...
Dec 8th, 2022
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‘All climate change predictions show that we need to put more, not fewer, resources into our cities’ infrastructure to head off the worst effects from extreme weather conditions,’ says Living Green Barrie official Letter to the Editor, BarrieToday Dec 7, 2022  file photo.Natasha Philpott/...