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[cedric @treebeing]

#protectHighPark #biodiversity
Five years ago, Passover Full Moon would be only light spilling over Grenadier Pond in High Park. Those, calling now Provincially Significant Wetland home, could live less disturbed lives. So could we, people.
Keep city out of TO's remaining nature!

[cedric @treebeing]

#TheFeds could and should stop this madness. Except they just released a concerning proposal for how “nation-building” projects can be fast-tracked aiming to weaken the guardrails that uphold #environmentalintegrity Canadians need to push back along all levels of the governments.

[NoJetsTO @NoJetsTO]

With Bill 110 getting Royal Assent, we will be keeping an eye on any fencing/bulldozing at Little Norway Park and Toronto Island. Experience tells us Premier Ford is a very poor park steward! The Feds could stop this madness by saying No to Jets! #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

[cedric @treebeing]

@NoJetsTO The Feds could and should stop this madness. Except, they just released a concerning proposal for how “nation-building” projects can be fast-tracked aiming to weaken the guardrails that uphold environmental integrity. Canadians need to push back along all levels of governments

[Lyle Lewis @LyleLewis__Real]

Salmon disappear first.
Then orcas decline.
Then seabirds starve.

Food webs unravel from the bottom upward.

[cedric @treebeing]

@Graff2023 @MarkJCarney @CI2100 The growth addicted people ignore that Southern Ontario, providing for 35% of Canadians, is already over its carrying capacity. Further we grow in those mega-regions, more ecological impact.
https://t.co/GHcETAXFjB
Global consumption exceeds Earth’s limits, York researchers find

[cedric @treebeing]

@Graff2023 @MarkJCarney @CI2100 The growth addicted people ignore that Southern Ontario, providing for 35% of Canadians, is already over its carrying capacity. Further we grow in those mega-regions, more ecological impact.
https://t.co/GHcETAXFjB
Global consumption exceeds Earth’s limits, York researchers find

[cedric @treebeing]

Those, who voted Liberals hoping to get a respite from Trudeau's failed mass immigration policy, should hold their noses. @MarkJCarney is cominig from the back door with the same idea along #CenturyIniative100 just wiggling back and forth massaging the public opinion.

[Globe Politics @globepolitics]

Carney attributes ‘weakness’ in economic data to lower immigration targets https://t.co/QrvxBDnsMX

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Doug Ford and Mark Carney claim $2.2 billion HST rebate on new homes will help renters become owners. Instead, it’s helping the wealthy buy more rental properties https://t.co/N6ljVY6KC8

[Patrick Condon @pmcondon2]

@DrCameronMurray Truth matters

[cedric @treebeing]

"We at PIC are always struck by the disconnect between the media’s frantic coverage of climate change and its almost complete silence on population growth."

[Population Institute Canada @PopulationIC]

Yes, Trump was gloating when he recently posted on Truth Social that “…the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!”, but it seems to us that the mainstream media handed him the ammunition by presenting the worst case scenario (known as Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 or RCP8.5) of the various scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2011 as where we were actually headed unless we took extremely draconian action. This scenario has now been dropped. We at PIC are always struck by the disconnect between the media’s frantic coverage of climate change and its almost complete silence on population growth. https://t.co/KlNzDzBCMZ

[Sustainable Pop Aus @SustPopAus]

@GreenTyler27 Reminds us of this from a few years ago

[cedric @treebeing]

#overshoot #consumption #population
“#Canada has a biocapacity advantage, but it is under pressure because of our large #ecologicalfootprint,” “Canada’s footprint is limiting opportunities for people elsewhere in the world to live well.” @EFI_YorkU
https://t.co/GHcETAXFjB

[cedric @treebeing]

Humanity is consuming natural resources much faster than the planet can replenish them, according to new global data from York University @EFI_YorkU
https://t.co/GHcETAXFjB

[cedric @treebeing]

#protectHighParkESAANSIPSW
The inquiry needed into why since #DevelopmentReview opened with 400 employees in TO, the Natural Heritage Impact Study is no longer required in Ward 4 in adjacency to High Park, despite being mandatory by OP @MayorOliviaChow @gordperks @OntarioNature

[Patrick Condon @pmcondon2]

https://t.co/8tYNDGBshv

Proving yet again, that if you want to make real money in Vancouver real estate, playing fast and loose with the planning department is required.

[cedric @treebeing]

Ditto in #Canada.
The Feds @MarkJCarney follow pop growth agenda aiming to increase Canada's pop to #100million by 2100! #resourcecollapse
https://t.co/le30e1rfSi
#SouthernOntario is the most densely populated region in Canada, housing roughly 35% of the country's population.

[Sustainable Pop Aus @SustPopAus]

This week Australia's population will pass 28 million.

Australia's population has increased by 9 million since early in the year 2000, an average rise of around 29,510 per month over the past 25 years and 5 months.

However, the pace has quickened over recent years. In the post-COVID period since May 2022, when a population of 26 million was passed, Australia’s residential population rose by an average of 41,667 per month.
By January 2024, just 29 months ago, a population of 27 million was hit, with that next million arriving in just 18 months at a pace of 55,000 per month.

The most recent addition of a million residents arrived at a totally unsustainable pace, averaging 34,480 people per month. (Note: this equals over a third of our post war average total annual intake!)

While the property lobby, linked business interests (eg universities/major retail chains) & politicians will be popping the champagne corks over these numbers,
... we understand them to be the cause of an unfolding polycrisis tragedy for our nation.

[cedric @treebeing]

"government’s plan to admit 380,000 permanent residents this year, equal to about 1% of the total population"
This is about a triple of what on average immigration was prior to #Mulroney time as PM.
The Feds @MarkJCarney are following the same agenda https://t.co/le30e1rfSi!

[Brian Graff @Graff2023]

The government tries to ignore this - and it is not new either. BUT usually Canadians under-estimate immigration, and the 1% number sounds low but is actually far above historic norms.
Only about 15% or less usually want immigration increased... but we have got the opposite.
Quote:
The survey found 47 per cent of respondents believe “too many” immigrants are coming to Canada, while 38 per cent say “about the right amount” are coming.
Those results shifted when respondents were asked about the federal government’s plan to admit 380,000 permanent residents this year, equal to about one per cent of the total population.
When asked about that number, just 39 per cent of respondents said it’s too high, while 43 per cent said it was an appropriate level.
https://t.co/dF5bftjN6t

[cedric @treebeing]

#nojets
This #flightpath critical for N/A #birdsmigration @MarkJCarney!
"Ontario to designate #Toronto island airport special economic zone after land takeover
The Feds have been publicly noncommittal on the idea, though it has not rejected the plans."
https://t.co/37vrU4SMgk

[Riley Donovan @valdombre]

Instead of cutting consultant fees, corporate subsidies, or payments to fake refugees, the Carney government is defunding Canadian agriculture.

Seven agricultural research centres - one more than a century old - are set to close. But we can afford $473 million for FIFA?

[Seniors for Climate Action Now! (SCAN!) @Seniors_CAN]

Extinction from a six-page government memo.
At the end of a federal discussion paper is an extreme proposal: The federal cabinet wants the power to approve projects even if they could wipe out an endangered species forever.
https://t.co/ezEHfinrgR

[cedric @treebeing]

"His exit marks the #end of an era for #Canadian #environmentalaspirations. It’s a sign that big government promises to protect the planet are no longer being made, let alone fulfilled — but not that the battle is over."

[The Narwhal @thenarwhalca]

The ‘most ambitious environment minister Canada has ever had’ is resigning, an activist investor group is done convincing banks and fossil fuel companies — and climate action is back outside https://t.co/Pwxombs0Ra