Ontario’s drinking water is protected by little-known committees, tied up in conservation authority changes
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10 min. readThe groups that protect drinking water in Ontario, set up following the contamination crisis in...
Ontario’s $20-million plan to merge 36 conservation authorities into nine
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The Doug Ford government’s proposal to amalgamate the watershed protection agencies received 14,000 public comments,...
How does the Ford government really feel about parks?
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The Ford government wants to build urban and adventure parks, even as it moves to...
‘Whiplash’ and ‘scar tissue’: conservation authorities grapple with Ontario’s most dramatic overhaul yet
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Nearly 80 years after their creation, the Doug Ford government is reducing the unique environmental...
Ford government wants more power over Ontario’s drinking water
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Move to support ‘housing and infrastructure development’ comes 25 years after fatal tragedy in Walkerton...
New year, new power: Ford government can now overrule conservation authorities
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As of Jan. 1, the Ontario government has new rules for how and when it...
‘You start with us’: conservation authority head has parting message for Ontario government
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After 20 years with Conservation Halton, Hassaan Basit reflects on Doug Ford’s cuts and how...
Ontario weakens watershed protections (again) as natural resources minister gets new powers
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New rules give conservation authorities some new powers to restrict harmful development, but reduce buffer...
Doug Ford to gut Ontario’s conservation authorities, citing stalled housing
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In a massive overhaul of urban development planning, the Ontario government looks to take power...