This Toronto park is home to the first of what will soon be two billion trees
Toronto, already dubbed a city within a park, is about to get a whole lot greener.
Rouge National Urban Park, the largest urban park in North America known for its offerings of trails through Carolinian forest, is getting 26,000 new trees this spring.
The planting of these trees come as part of a wetland and riparian restoration project with Forests Ontario, Parks Canada, and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) – and will be the first of many.
There are plans for two billion more across Canada over the next decade with the 2 Billion Trees program that was announced back in 2019 amid plenty of climate protests throughout the country.
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Putting aside a failed effort on a west-end riverfront site that was long thought earmarked to complete a land swap so Ojibway Shores can be forever environmentally protected, focus has turned towards yet another property away from the waterfront to complete the deal.
Both the Windsor Port Authority which controls the Ojibway Shores site and city of Windsor confirmed Wednesday a joint meeting will be held within a couple weeks where the city will pitch yet another land parcel away from the waterfront they hope will bring resolution to eight years of negotiations to protect the last remaining untouched land on Windsor’s riverfront.
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Detroit offering free swimming lessons to children this summer
By Veronica Meadows
Detroit providing hundreds of children with free swim lessons
Hundreds of Detroit children can learn to swim for free this summer thanks to the Swim in the D program.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - Detroit is offering free swimming lessons for children this summer.
Swim in the D will teach children 6-17 how to swim and provide water safety lessons in collaboration with Huron-Clinton Metroparks and The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy.
It’s bigger than just learning how to swim, said Keith Flournoy, the deputy director of Detroit s Parks and Recreation Division. Water safety I think is equally important. Even if you don’t know how to swim you can still learn water safety.
By Shamindra Ferdinando
The government has requested Canada not to enact Bill 104 recently adopted by the Ontario Provincial Parliament that resolved that Sri Lanka had committed genocide during the war.
Authoritative sources said that in terms of the Canadian Law in spite of the passage of the controversial Bill 104 moved by Member of Parliament Vijay Thanigasalam (Scarborough Rouge Park) of Sri Lankan origin, it wouldn’t be enacted until Ontario Lieutenant Governor General Elizabeth Dowdeswell gave her consent on behalf of the Canadian Government. Thanigasalam represents the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. The Lt. Governor General is appointed on the recommendation of the Prime Minister.