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Six Priorities for Improving the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan

February 24, 2021–Anne Bell

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Indigenous Relations•Land-use planning•Stewardship and restoration•Water•Wetlands

Lake Simcoe © Nico CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The Lake Simcoe Protection Plan is now up for its required 10-year review. The question is whether the provincial government will take this opportunity to strengthen or weaken the plan ...

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Protecting Minesing Wetlands’ Biodiversity

February 18, 2021–Janice Lam

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Land-use planning•Protected Places•Wetlands

© Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority

Designated as internationally important under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the Minesing Wetlands are one of the largest and most diverse in southern Ontario.

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Boots on the Ground in Stratford

February 9, 2021–Anne Bell

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Campaigns and advocacy•Climate Change•Land-use planning

Rally opposing Stratford glass factory MZO © Mark McCauley

Stratford is one of the many communities across Ontario struggling with the unwelcome imposition of a Minister’s Zoning Order (MZO) to fast-track development. In Stratford’s case, the MZO is to ...

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Doing Right by Wetlands

February 1, 2021–Anne Bell

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Water•Wetlands•Wild Species

© Viv Lynch CC BY-NC-ND

Gratitude. Relationship. Reciprocity. These are words that often emerge in conversations with Indigenous colleagues. They point to a far more just and caring way of living with each other and ...

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Where Industrial Logging Protects Wildlife, Workers and Indigenous Rights

January 27, 2021–Julee Boan

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Boreal Forest•Campaigns and advocacy•Habitat•Indigenous Relations•Protected Places•Stewardship and restoration•Wild Species

Canoes in Wolf Lake © Ryan Mariotti

It’s October 2017. I’m in Vancouver, British Colombia for Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) International’s General Assembly (GA). One forester colleague had warned me to get lots of sleep, drink water ...

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