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Category: Campaigns and advocacy

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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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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Conserving Nature and History: Who has the Authority for this Work?

November 20, 2020–Guest blogger

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Campaigns and advocacy•Habitat

© Quinte Conservation Authority

How does the destruction of precious habitat and the decimation of Ontario’s Conservation Authorities assist in our recovery from COVID-19? They don’t. Yet, in the omnibus budget measures bill (Bill ...

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Questions to Ask Your Candidates

August 15, 2019–Anne Bell

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Campaigns and advocacy

Beaver © Missy Mandel

With a federal election on the horizon in October, it’s time to make the conservation of wild species and wild spaces an election issue. If a party candidate comes knocking ...

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This Thanksgiving

October 6, 2016–Ontario Nature Staff

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Campaigns and advocacy

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