Executive Director at Environmental Defence. Views posted are my own.
Toronto
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Timothy Gray retweeted
PRESS RELEASE: The Wilderness Committee condemns today’s designation of Roberts Bank Terminal 2 as a Project of National Interest and the trampling of environmental regulations by the Carney government:
wildernesscommittee.org/news…
Timothy Gray retweeted
NEW: Ontario's integrity commissioner obtained many months of text messages between PC MPP Laurie Scott & John Mutton (aka Mr. X).
The texts show the pair building rapport around 2 efforts: getting special zoning approvals for his clients & helping her political fundraising.
Timothy Gray retweeted
Get that garbage outta here! But where would it go?
The Ford government is taking away municipalities' say on where a landfill or incinerator could be located, with promises of consultation.
And the province is blaming Trump.
#onpoli
Timothy Gray retweeted
Alarming scoop from Patty Winsa: @fordnation govt's recycling reforms are off the rails, triggering a proposal to cancel curbside collection of flexible plastics and overflow recycling bags, as well as delivery of extra requested recycling boxes thestar.com/business/ford-go…
Timothy Gray retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: WhatsApp messages documented in a secret report by Ontario’s former integrity commissioner contradict what a key figure in the Greenbelt scandal told the parliamentary watchdog in its controversy-defining probe.
Messages contradict what ex-staffer told Greenbelt scandal inquiry thetrillium.ca:443/news/the-…
Cuts to jobs and safety in National Parks for you to help pay for the $billions to be given to the oil and gas industry: cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/p… #cdnpoli
Perfectly describes the confusion among some about why people would ever vote for their own interests #ToPoli
Will Canada’s Race Towards US-Style Environmental Laws Threaten the Pivot to the EU? linkedin.com/pulse/canadas-r… #cdnpoli #Toxic
Timothy Gray retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: The day Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet approved the government’s ill-fated Greenbelt changes, several key figures rubbed shoulders in a private box at a Toronto Maple Leafs game.
It's detailed in a previously confidential Integrity Commissioner report on John Mutton.
Inside the Greenbelt scandal’s lost Leafs game thetrillium.ca:443/news/the-…
Fast-tracking projects under Bill C-39 risks ‘irreversible harm,’ top scientists warn /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/politics… #cdnpoli
Timothy Gray retweeted
#NEW: A tense standoff unfolded in Etobicoke Tuesday night, as roughly 100 protesters gathered around construction equipment being used to remove the protected bike lanes along Bloor Street West. bit.ly/4z5Y3GE
Timothy Gray retweeted
Important story from Star's @BKennedyStar: The provincial agency responsible for online gambling secretly shelved a research study showing higher-than-expected problem gambling, and schemed how to ensure Ontarians never saw it thestar.com/news/investigati…
David Piccini’s assistant sent developer’s request to housing minister’s office before land was removed from Greenbelt thetrillium.ca/news/the-tril… via @Thetrilliumca #HandsOfftheGreenbelt #onpoli
Mark Carney's Building Canada Strong Act guts environmental laws...and takes us back to the bad old days thestar.com/opinion/contribu… via @torontostar #cdnpoli
Don't worry @OilGasCanada you can still hold the country hostage through fact free claims, disinformation and grift. #cdnpoli
Timothy Gray retweeted
These 32 #BloodBikes commemorate the 32 people killed on Bloor, Yonge & University in 20-years before bike lanes were built.
After bike lanes were installed only one tragic loss of life has occurred in 6-years since 2020.
Bike lanes keep EVERYONE save, not only people cycling.
Timothy Gray retweeted
Is it too much to ask for publishers of articles advocating for cycling routes on secondary roads in Toronto to require their authors to submit a proposed alternative?
@RDiManno, is this the sort of secondary route you're thinking as an alternative to the Yonge Street lanes?
$66 billion of your tax dollars to build a pipeline for the profitable oil industry and to be completed when Asia no longer wants the oil: thehub.ca/podcast/audio/scal… #cdnpoli #grift
