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A wise Joni Mitchell once sang about the tribulations of paving paradise and putting up a parking lot. It's a familiar tune for wetlands, viewed by ma...

On January 19 the Ontario Ministry of Infrastructure enacted Amendment #1 to the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, also known as the Simco...

DEC
05
2011
The holidays are a time when we make a special effort to spread joy and generosity with family, friends and in our community. So this holiday season w...

NOV
02
2011
A recent annual poll by Environics, commissioned by the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation has found that support for Ontario’s Greenbelt remai...

Moonscape greenfield development, Yonge and Greenlane
In late August I wrote about how a lack of truly affordable housing in the GTA drives sprawl in surrounding rural areas. Land speculation, too, has sh...

As you may have seen, we’ve employed some creative tactics to draw attention to environmental choices in tomorrow's Ontario provincial election...

In response to a vicious attack ad released today by Donald, Penelope, the eight year-old girl now waging a non-partisan provincial election campaign...

At Queen's Park today, Penelope launched the Penelope 4 Ontario election campaign, pushing to make sure that when Ontarians vote on October 6th, they...

The absence of this Growth Plan, they say, would result in worse gridlock, sprawl, a significant loss of greenspace, lower economic productivity and p...

The mayor of Canada’s largest city is in cost-cutting mode and a local food policy, originally passed in 2008, has just escaped the chopping blo...