urban development

Doug Ford in a construction vest and hat walks in front of his campaign bus which says "Get it Done"

Everything you need to know about how Ontario’s Get It Done Act will impact the environment

Feb. 21, 2024 7 min. read

The Ford government says its plans to 'streamline' environmental oversight and make land expropriation easier...

The redside dace was once plentiful around Lake Ontario but is quickly disappearing. The Ford government wants to halve the time spent waiting for the minnow to reappear in some waterways, and limit the streams set aside for its recovery

Ontario to cut protections for tiny endangered fish found along route of Highway 413

By Emma McIntosh

Feb. 16, 2024 7 min. read

After spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to restore redside dace habitat, the Ford government...

A collage of ads from the Ontario government on a brown paper background. The ads depict roads and people and have a variety of slogans, like "What if I told you there's a place where it's all happening?"

Documents show Ontario may move to allow expropriation of land before environmental review

By Emma McIntosh and Fatima Syed

Feb. 2, 2024 10 min. read

First Nations and public might object to measures aimed at speeding up Ford government pet...

An overturned City of Toronto green bin with food spilling out.

Want to reduce food waste, Ontario? Be more like Vancouver

By Sarah Bartnicka

Jan. 11, 2024 8 min. read

Over 60 per cent of Ontario’s food waste ends up in landfills producing methane, even...

Streetcar no. 728 runs down Winnipeg's Portage Avenue in 1954. Cars and buses share the road on either side of the streetcar tracks

The golden age of public transit was electric — and its future will be too

By Julia-Simone Rutgers

Jan. 2, 2024 12 min. read

As the world looks to reduce carbon pollution, cities like Winnipeg are coming full circle...

The year of the Greenbelt: how Doug Ford’s bid to build housing on protected land backfired

By Emma McIntosh

Dec. 19, 2023 38 min. read

The USB keys, the secretive gala chats, the watchdog reports, the public protests — a...

An aerial view of a wetland in the middle of a of an autumn forest with Lake Muskoka in the distance

The $500,000 fight to protect a Muskoka wetland

By Emma McIntosh

Nov. 29, 2023 12 min. read

Very few of Ontario’s quickly vanishing marshes and swamps are safe from development. A group...

where tensions over logging and development have communities fighting for the natural world

An illusion of protection in the Rockies

Nov. 9, 2023(Updated Nov. 10, 2023)

In this week’s newsletter, we chat with Prairies reporter Drew Anderson about two stories from...

Excavators parked on snow-covered soil surrounded by mountains and conifers, where work is already on The Gateway, an already approved commercial development owned by Three Sisters Mountain Village

Developer warns Rocky Mountain town of severe costs of ‘immoral’ dissent in new open letter

By Drew Anderson

Nov. 3, 2023 7 min. read

The Three Sisters Mountain Village development will nearly double the population of Canmore. Now the...

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