@MargaretAtwood For our Spring Festival, we filled out invoices that we sent to Doug Ford. To cover the additional cost to Pickering taxpayers to put housing on our DRAP farmland, and of course, we had to use your stamps.
“This is a false dichotomy that's been set up by the government that it's either we destroy the environment and build affordable housing, or we can’t do the rest. Well, that’s completely nonsense.”
#HandsOffTheGreenbelt#YTPwknd#OnPoli
https://t.co/jqxSC0KXj3 via @NatObserver
People are waking up, real estate in #Ontario is now just another extractive industry, aided by @FordNation to pilfer our publicly owned and/or protected agricultural lands for peanuts, to provide HUGE profits for a few speculators.
#Bill23#Bill97#UrbanBoundaryExpansions
Incredible @ONPlace4All! It’s trees, water, green, and all the nature found here can literally save lives! Green spaces help improve mental and physical health! We can do this for free! No to Spa!! Yes to Green!! #OntarioPlace@maritstiles@MikeSchreiner@JohnFraserOS
Doyle predicts putting housing here will also contaminate the watershed that flows into Lake Ontario and harm local wildlife;
a fragile eco-system that is all connected.
#WaterIsLife#Ontario#DRAP#HandsOffTheGreenbelt
https://t.co/pfljdSaJXD
Good recap of last night's vote with 2 notes:
1 - **Ag leases** are $120/acre; market rate. Residential + commercial lease terms vary. (https://t.co/RYeY3cekyK)
2 - To say Lands have "gone largely unused" is inaccurate. Continuously farmed since 1972.
https://t.co/9TvabMB7xf
Why does the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve on the Greenbelt need to be save from @FordNation and his developer friends? https://t.co/nYWloXuLGE #HandsOffTheGreenbelt#ONpoli
AT RISK: 33 species of insects, birds, and wild animals will suffer from developing Pickering's Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve, according to new report https://t.co/NuKnZ7XTWj via @newsdurham#HandsOffTheGreenbelt#YoursToProtect
Doug Ford insists there's nothing suspect about the process to select the parcels of Greenbelt land to open for development.
If that’s the case, why is the government refusing to respond to FOI requests about how these parcels were chosen?
My statement: https://t.co/NNc3awTZkE
We need to understand the potential effects of development projects on @RougePark, the largest urban park in Canada. The study aims to protect biodiversity, work with Indigenous communities, and support a vibrant park farming community. Let’s work together to preserve #RougeNUP.