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Mid-Rise Manual

REPORT HIGHLIGHTS To deliver 1.5 million homes by 2031 and end Ontario’s housing shortage, governments must focus construction efforts on mid-rise buildings inside neighbourhoods that currently only allow low-rise construction….


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Reports & Guides By Issue

Our work is based on research, science, and a strong understanding of the facts. Below you will find our archive of reports, guides and media backgrounders that are available for download. You can find our government submissions here.

ENDING CLIMATE CHANGE
backgrounder: Clean Electricity Regulations Media Backgrounder (2024)
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backgrounder: Study: Canada’s Future Vehicle Emissions Standard, Impacts on Vehicle Size and GHG Emissions (2024)
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report: Big Oil’s Big Year: A Summary of Big Oil’s 2023 Federal Lobbying (2024)
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backgrounder: Ontario’s Gas Problems: The Issues With Fracked Gas (2024)
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backgrounder: Permanent Public Transit Funding in Canada (2024)
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backgrounder: Oil and Gas CEOs Testify on Lack of Emissions Reductions (2024)
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backgrounder: Canada’s Oil and Gas Emissions Cap: Why Getting it Right Matters (2024)
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report: GAS IS NOT GREEN (2024)
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backgrounder: A Taxonomy of Sustainable Finance in Canada (2024)
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PROTECTING ONTARIO'S ENVIRONMENT
report: Mid-Rise Manual (2024)
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report: Concrete Consequences (2024)
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report: DEVELOPING DISASTER (2023)
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report: Review of Existing Housing Unit Capacity Identified in Municipal Land Needs Assessments (2023)
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report: HIGHWAY 413: The Road to our Ruin (2022)
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report: The Freight Escape: How to Get Trucks Off the 401 Without Blowing a Hole in the Greenbelt (2023)
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report: HOT HOT AIR (and other gases): A REVIEW OF THE PAST FOUR YEARS OF ONTARIO’S CLIMATE CHANGE (IN)ACTION (2022)
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backgrounder: Backgrounder: Housing Affordability and Provincial-Municipal Housing Summit
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report: Paving Paradise: The Impact of Highway 413 on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Air Pollution and Suburban Sprawl (2021)
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SAFEGUARDING FRESHWATER
report: Report: CLEAN, NOT GREEN: Tackling Algal Blooms in the Great Lakes (2014)
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report: Report: Tipping the Scales: A report about how Canada and Ontario can prevent an Asian carp invasion of the Great Lakes (2013)
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ENDING PLASTIC POLLUTION
backgrounder: Massive waste incinerator expansion proposed for Brampton (2023)
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report: Still Left Holding the Bag (2023)
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report: Recycling Failure (2022)
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report: Plastic Pollution in Canada (2020)
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report: Talking Trash (2018)
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backgrounder: Incineration is not recycling (2018)
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report: Turning the Plastic Tide (2016)
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KICKING OUT TOXIC CHEMICALS
backgrounder: Canada’s PFAS Problem: Barriers and Opportunities for Action (2024)
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backgrounder: Moving forward on CEPA modernization: Key provisions in Bill S-5 (2023)
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backgrounder: Canada, Come Clean: products labelling and our weak toxics law (2023)
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backgrounder: Bringing biodiversity home: COP15 expectations for Canada (2022)
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report: PASSING THE BUCK (2022)
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report: The hidden cost of receipts: How BPA and BPS find their way into our bodies (2019)
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report: What’s in your lunch? How glyphosate finds its way into food (2018)
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report: Full disclosure: The case for stronger product labelling (2017)
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report: Buyers Beware (2016)
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backgrounder: The Ripple Effects of Draining Ontario’s Wetlands (2024)
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backgrounder: Clean Electricity Regulations Media Backgrounder (2024)
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backgrounder: Study: Canada’s Future Vehicle Emissions Standard, Impacts on Vehicle Size and GHG Emissions (2024)
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report: Mid-Rise Manual (2024)
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report: Concrete Consequences (2024)
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report: Big Oil’s Big Year: A Summary of Big Oil’s 2023 Federal Lobbying (2024)
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backgrounder: Ontario’s Gas Problems: The Issues With Fracked Gas (2024)
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backgrounder: Permanent Public Transit Funding in Canada (2024)
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backgrounder: Oil and Gas CEOs Testify on Lack of Emissions Reductions (2024)
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