Resources (old version) – Yours To Protect

ENVIRONMENTAL ROLLBACKS

The Ontario government has cancelled a number of programs and laws that protected our environment. These changes have put our farmland, forests, endangered species, and clean air at risk and put a healthy future in jeopardy. See more for a list of the environmental protections that have been rolled back so far.

REPORTS AND LEGAL ANALYSIS

RPCO – News Release RE: Housing Inventory

REVIEW OF EXISTING HOUSING UNIT CAPACITY

Big Tent Statement: The Problems with Bill 23 and the Proposal to Remove Lands from the Greenbelt

Media Statement: Massive Coalition of Groups Unite to Condemn Ford Government’s Secret Sprawl Plans

Highway 413 The Road to Our Ruin

Likely Aggregate sites for Highway 413 and Bradford Bypass (MAP)

Highway Construction, Aggregate Mining and Food Insecurity (Map)

Vulnerability to Highway Aggregate Extraction (MAP)

See all of the reports and legal analysis here

GOVERNMENT SUBMISSIONS

Submission on Black Ash Exemption

Comments on RNUP Study Terms of Reference

Joint Submission on Provincial Policy Statement Replacement

Letter from Friends of the Rouge re: Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve

Group Submission on ERO 019-6161 (wetland offsetting)

Nottawasaga Steelheaders respond to Bill 23

Submission on Bill 23 from Kevin Eby, RPP, PLE, Kevin Thomason, Grand River Environment Network and Mark Reusser, Waterloo Federation of Agriculture

Ford government to allow illegal dumping of dirty dirt to continue

See all of the Government submissions here.

VIDEOS

Let’s Rescue Rondeau for Nature

Would you pay $6 Billion to save 30 seconds? Cancel Highway 413

What is the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan?

Rescue Lake Simcoe’s Forests

Stop the fracked gas pipeline in Hamilton!

David Suzuki’s video on endangered species

EDC’s Facebook Live video panel analyzing Ontario’s Environment Plan

BLOGS

Colpoys Bay is under threat by a proposed land-based fish farm

Black Bears back in the crosshairs – Ontario Nature

Conservation Ontario blog on Bill 108 changes

Blog post on changes to the ESA

Blog – why Ontario needs to get serious about climate change

Pollution Solutions blog

Blog on Toxics Law

Housing plan

See all of the Blogs here.

MEDIA COVERAGE

Clean Air

Farmland and Forests and Bill 108

Healthy Climate

Vulnerable Wildlife and Species in Danger

Clean Water at Risk

Clean Air

Ontario PCs Want To Stop Tracking Toxins. Experts Say It’ll Cost Us Our Health.

Reducing environmental regulation is ‘worrying’ for cities like Hamilton: McKenna

End of toxic substances program criticized: Hamilton advocates

Baranyai: Ford government could flood us with cuts

Ontario passes repeal of Toxics Reduction Act

Ontario proposes to repeal the provincial Toxics Reduction Act

Ontario’s proposed Bill 66 continued — the ominous omnibus bill

Changes to overtime pay, environmental rules buried in ‘open-for-business’ bill

Farmland and Forests and Bill 108

‘Overwhelming’ survey response to freeze Hamilton’s urban boundary

York Region mulling plan that ‘destroys farmland and natural heritage,’ critics warn

Ford government broke environmental law on public consultations, court rules

Memo to Ontario: Just Leave The Greenbelt Alone

Minster’s Zoning Orders a Threat to Good Planning, Local Democracy

Durham Council Opposes Hasty Development on Carruthers Creek Headwaters in Pickering

The Value Of Nature Has Never Been More Evident, But Keeping Cities Green Has Been A Challenge

They’ve fought plans for a waste facility in a Simcoe forest for years. The government is now using a ‘bulldozer of planning’ to override their opposition

Battle lines drawn over Ottawa’s suburban sprawl

No more beating around the bush: What do conservation authorities do and why should I care?

Environmental groups critical of Ontario government forestry plan

Tribunal approves James Dick’s ‘hidden quarry’ near Rockwood

Vaughan favours building new GTA highway in northern part of city. Environmental Defence rejects city’s ‘preferred’ route for proposed GTA west corridor

Former Vaughan Mayor charged with breach of trust and municipal corruption

What we know and don’t know about Ontario’s massive new housing law

Ontario changes rules to speed building of new housing, critics say plan unfairly favours large developers

Leiper: Ontario’s Bill 108 undercuts sensible, community-based planning

Ford government restores OMB rules for development disputes

GTA councillors call for halt to provincial proposal to bring back OMB

Councillors warn developers will hijack city planning process under reinstated OMB

Ford’s Bill 108 attempts to rush urban development bill without asking cities

Ford government’s housing bill facing growing resistance

Canada should move faster on protecting land from development

Suburban land use & climate change: Making the connections and taking action

Healthy Climate

An overlooked climate strategy: Denser Cities

Why Urban Sprawl is such a big deal in Hamilton

Ontario’s energy plans a gas, gas, gas

Slash-and-burn policies fuelling climate crisis in Ontario

Doug Ford wants to loosen emissions rules for industry. Ottawa should say no

Ontario cancels program that aimed to plant 50 million trees

Forests Ontario explains how the 50 Million Tree Program helped the economy and environment

Cancelling cap-and-trade will result in $3B in lost revenue: FAO

Doug Ford’s decision to cancel cap-and-trade keeps getting worse

Undeniable – Canada’s Changing Climate: When the rains fell hard

Doug Ford’s propaganda against a price on carbon

Civil liberties group challenges Doug Ford’s gas pump propaganda

Costs of Ontario climate plan would be double Liberal carbon tax, raise household costs: report

Vulnerable Wildlife and Species in Danger

Guest Column: Our relationship with the natural world around us is outdated

Rondeau Park cottage lots should be returned to nature

Judge agrees town damaged plover habitat, dismisses appeal

How to rescue Ontario’s Endangered Species Act: a biologist’s perspective

One million species at risk of extinction as Doug Ford is ‘sending in the bulldozers’

Ontario’s Endangered Species Act needs saving

Little time for input on Endangered Species Act

‘Pay to slay’: Oakville council vehemently opposes Ontario’s proposed changes to Endangered Species Act

Sweeping changes buried in housing bill called ‘doomsday scenario’ for Ontario’s endangered species

Province ‘pandering to influential developers’

Doug Ford is clear-cutting Ontatio’s environmental laws

Clean Water at Risk

Understanding the Impacts (Bradford Bypass)

Doug Ford’s government fast-tracks huge futuristic development near Lake Simcoe

’Rebranded’ Ford government continues crusade against the environment

Doug Ford orders ‘wind down’ of non-essential conservation programs

Why cuts to conservation authorities will make it harder to prevent floods

Eastern Ontario conservation authorities feeling the pinch from provincial funding cuts

LFP LONGFORM: Climate change, now Doug Ford cuts, raise flood fears

Flood-monitoring groups absorb cut from province

Watershed moment: Ford cuts unleash crisis of conservation

Environmental groups calling for increased ‘targets’ to protect Lake Simcoe