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Ontario Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark, pictured in 2018. The Greenbelt Council s new chair reports to Clark. File photo by Alex Tétreault The new chair of Ontario’s Greenbelt Council is under fire over his environmental record again, this time for his approach to climate pollution as environment minister in the 1990s. Norm Sterling who was lambasted by critics shortly after the Ford government appointed him last week for voting against the creation of the Greenbelt when he was a PC MPP was an environment minister in the Mike Harris government. A longer look at his record also shows Sterling’s environmental legacy is complex. He was resistant to climate targets in the Kyoto Protocol, and oversaw the Environment Ministry as carbon emissions rose and senior officials instructed staff not to enforce regulations in hundreds of cases. But he also helped shape Canada’s first environmental land use plan and implemented legislation aimed at cracking d ....
Ontario plans to expand Greenbelt to include Paris Galt Moraine and GTA river lands The Ontario government on Wednesday announced it hopes to expand the Greenbelt to include the Paris Galt Moraine and adding, expanding and further protecting urban river valleys. Social Sharing ....
Posted: Dec 12, 2020 6:35 PM ET | Last Updated: December 13, 2020 The Augustinian Fathers (Ontario), Inc., a registered charity, will ask King Township Council for support on Monday to redevelop land it owns on the province s greenbelt. It intends to transform this boarded-up barn into a banquet hall.(Angelina King/CBC) A religious charity in Ontario will ask the council of King Township on Monday for support in its quest for a minister s zoning order that would enable it to redevelop land it owns on the province s Greenbelt. The Augustinian Fathers (Ontario), Inc., a registered charity, sent a letter on Nov. 25 to the council asking it to endorse its request and it has drafted a motion that it hopes the council approves. ....
Posted: Dec 10, 2020 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 10, 2020 Premier Doug Ford speaks in the legislature on May 12.(Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press) comments It s been a year like no other, including within the stately stone walls of Ontario s legislature. The COVID-19 pandemic transformed business at Queen s Park. Normally raucous question period took on a more muted tone, with limited numbers of physically distanced MPPs scattered around the chamber, their occasional heckles muffled by masks. Premier Doug Ford s government prioritized emergency legislation during the pandemic s first wave, and the opposition parties co-operated with their unanimous consent to speed passage of six such bills. But as the year progressed, political differences re-emerged as the government pushed forward with its agenda, sometimes with legislation completed unrelated to COVID-19. ....