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Scapegoating Immigration for Environmental Degradation and the Housing Crisis is Unjustified

May 15, 2024–Melina Damian

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Land-use planning•Reduce Your Footprint

Awenda Provincial Park © Melina Damian

The housing crisis continues to be an issue of overwhelming concern for Canadians. While the people of Ontario fought hard to keep the Greenbelt protected from urban sprawl, a hot ...

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Ontarians Won’t Be Ignored

January 25, 2023–Corina Brdar

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Campaigns and advocacy

Global Climate Strike - Toronto, 9-27-2019 © Noah Cole

Snip, snip, snip. That’s how my supervisor, Anne Bell, described the recent tangle of legislation and policy proposals dumped on Ontarians in October and November of 2022. It was my ...

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Greenbelt Lands on the Chopping Block: What’s at Stake?

November 30, 2022–Ontario Nature Staff

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Campaigns and advocacy•Greenbelt and Greenway•Land-use planning

Halton Region, Greenbelt

Despite repeated promises that there would be no removal of lands from the Greenbelt, the Government of Ontario is planning to carve 7,400 acres out of the Greenbelt anyway. The proposal has ...

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Bad News for Wetlands: Proposed Gutting of the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System

November 24, 2022–Anne Bell

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Campaigns and advocacy•Wetlands

Lynde Shores Conservation Area © Paul Howard CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

On October 25, 2022, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) posted a proposal to overhaul the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System (OWES). The deadline for public comment is November ...

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