Most residents hadn’t heard of Reliance Home Comfort Inc. until it sent them ‘welcome packages’ in which the company said it owned fan-coil units in their apartments
The Ontario government says protected Greenbelt land will not be developed as part of a new subdivision it's proposing to fast-track in the Town of Caledon, weeks after residents were warned the province planned to use its authority to make that happen.
This story is Part 2 of a series about the Ford government s use of ministerial zoning orders. Read Part 1 here.
In Pickering, Ont., a cluster of marshes and swamps south of Highway 401 has become an unexpected battleground, pitting job creation against environmental preservation.
The wetland of willow trees, silver maples and cattails, once protected from development by provincial rules, is now slated to become a warehouse attached to a nearby casino development.
Since 2018, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government has used unappealable special orders to allow a host of powerful developers to build in a number of ecologically sensitive areas, bypassing the usual approval process.