Ontario Premier Doug Ford (left), and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark are refusing to reconsider the decision to develop Greenbelt lands, despite a scathing report from the province’s auditor general. | Arlyn McAdorey / THE CANADIAN PRESS From The Toronto Star, August 11, 2023 B...
Simcoe-Grey MPP Brian Saunderson in Collingwood last year for a local event. Erika Engel/CollingwoodToday Barrie MPPs Doug Downey and Andrea Khanjin have their say on the Greenbelt report. | Bob Bruton/BarrieToday Simcoe North MPP Jill Dunlop and Premier Doug Ford are shown in a file photo. | Image ...
Homes under construction in south-end Barrie. Raymond Bowe/BarrieToday From BarrieToday, August 9, 2023 By Bob Bruton The County of Simcoe has another ally at this year’s Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference, its council heard Tuesday. Kate Burns Gallagher, executive director of ...
Come stand in solidarity with the Land Alliance to protect their lands and waters! Date: Wednesday September 27th, 2023 Time: 12pm Location: Downtown Toronto Sign up: https://freegrassy.net/land-alliance-march/ RSVP For September 27th On September 27th, 12 pm 2023 five First Nations from Northern Ont...
Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk (left) and Premier Doug Ford will address the long-awaited report into the controversial Greenbelt land swap on Wednesday. Star wire services Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives “favoured certain developers” in a controversial $8.28-billion Greenbelt land swap r...
Yesterday, we learned that over the course of just five days in June, Ontario developers bought up 524 acres of former Greenbelt land in the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve. One single developer – with longstanding ties to the Ford government – spent $155 million to cash in on 400 acres of land t...
This is our moment to act. The federal government has already taken action before, And massive public outcry could push Ottawa to stop Ford’s plan before it even starts. We can have a real impact and help save one of the most biologically rich protected areas in all of Canada! Tell your friends and f...
A sign marking where the Greenbelt begins in York Region. Global News Blanding’s turtles, eastern meadowlarks, and Acadian flycatchers. Butternut, American chestnut, and cucumber trees. These are just a few of the 29 endangered and threatened species of animals and plants that live on the land remove...
From the Ontario Headwaters Institute Please see the submission from the Coalition of Ontario Water Guardians and sign the petition to support its four recommendations on the Province’s latest disaster on land use planning, which seeks to amalgamate the Provincial Policy Statement with A Place to Gro...
From the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition In this edition: Welcome Bradford Bypass Information Town Halls SCGC and Lake Simcoe on TVO’s The Agenda Turn up the heat on local MPPs Webinar recordings on housing and farmland. The Whale Substack Summer Time! Warm weather is here. The last da...
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