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The Progressive Conservative government is attempting to manage protests, further investigation and other fallout after a scathing report on its opening of the Greenbelt to development.

Greenbelt updates: RCMP launches investigation, Ford reverses changes

By Emma McIntosh and Fatima Syed

Aug. 17, 2023(Updated Oct. 20, 2023) 23 min. read

The RCMP investigation comes weeks after Ontario Premier Doug Ford admitted making a mistake on...

A group of miners are pictured in an underground passage at a Rossland, B.C., mine in 1898

A community transformed from mining town to resort destination. It doesn’t want to go back

By Francesca Fionda

Aug. 16, 2023 20 min. read

There’s a political push to dig up minerals deemed critical for a low-carbon economy. But...

A report by auditor general Bonnie Lysyk added key dates to the timeline of the Doug Ford government's development policy decisions around Ontario's protected Greenbelt.

The Doug Ford government and Ontario’s Greenbelt: a timeline

By Fatima Syed, Denise Balkissoon and Emma McIntosh

Aug. 9, 2023 21 min. read

Auditor general’s explosive report adds key dates to the chronology that has confused Ontarians —...

Housing Minister Steve Clark's chief of staff “substantially controlled and directed” the process of removing protected areas from Ontario’s Greenbelt, giving “preferential treatment” to a group of developers, says a new report from outgoing Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk.

Ontario housing minister’s chief of staff chose Greenbelt land parcels to benefit developers: auditor general

Aug. 9, 2023(Updated Aug. 10, 2023) 14 min. read

A high-ranking political staffer in Premier Doug Ford’s government “substantially controlled and directed” the process...

An illustration of a pile of logs, a salmon, caribou, and smoke stack in the background

B.C. is weighing the merits of appointing a ‘chief ecologist,’ internal docs show

By Ainslie Cruickshank

July 26, 2023 6 min. read

As species disappear and ecosystems collapse, the new role could help keep B.C. accountable on...

An aerial view of a tailings pond surrounded by forest

Ontario minister was privately urged to fix ‘high-risk gap’ to avoid mining disaster

By Emma McIntosh

July 24, 2023 13 min. read

Government documents reveal Ontario was warned five years ago that scant regulations around the dams...

Industrial Plastics Canada's new factory site near Circle Lake, Ont.

North Bay residents organize town hall to discuss PFAS, Industrial Plastics Canada factory

By Leah Borts-Kuperman (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

July 20, 2023 12 min. read

Some residents of North Bay, Ont., are expressing doubts about Mayor Peter Chirico’s defense of...

caribou mother calf Klinse-za maternity pen

B.C. may see $1.2 billion in conservation funding through nature agreement

By Ainslie Cruickshank

July 19, 2023 8 min. read

Internal government documents show unprecedented nature funding could be on the table in trilateral agreement...

Kids fish for rock bass, pike and muskie in Trout Lake, near North Bay. The lake and other Nipissing District waterways are contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, from a foam that was used to train firefighters by the Department of National Defence. Under existing legislation, a new plastics factory using PFAS opening up near the city is not required to do an environmental assessment.

Chemicals are forever: a new factory opens near Lake Nipissing, where water is already contaminated

By Leah Borts-Kuperman (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

July 6, 2023 18 min. read

Imagine driving down a two-lane road on a sunny day in northeastern Ontario, just east...

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