Tag: The Greenbelt
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The Holland Marsh
In 1954 Hurricane Hazel tore through Ontario, flooding the Holland Marsh and destroyed crops. In 2023, Ford’s government is going to run a highway through the Marsh, destroying crops, and creating a situation where runoff could destroy waterways. We couldn’t prevent a natural disaster but he can be stopped.
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Wetlands
The Ford government is planning on removing government oversight on the removal of wetlands from the Greenbelt and giving it over to private enterprise. This government is robbing the healthy future of Ontario’s wetlands, agricultural lands and its citizens. Read my book, Hurricane Hazel, One Family’s Story, a historical fiction that clearly outlines what happens…
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Weather events
When we experience unusual and damaging weather events, we must connect them to our decisions about how we treat the environment we live in and that which surrounds us. Protest the potential Greenbelt loss or we will all live with the consequences.
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Greenbelt protests
We can’t afford to let this go. Developers have more than 80,000 acres of land in Ontario that is undeveloped and not in the Greenbelt. Why are they being permitted to steal our agricultural land, our water sources, endanger wildlife. Once we let them do this, this wonderful resource will be gone forever.
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The Greenbelt
People may think saving the Greenbelt is only the concern of farmers. If you read my book, you will understand how important the preservation of the Greenbelt, wetlands and floodplain is to the safety of citizens all over Ontario. With climate change increasing flood events these lands need to be housing free so that they…
Hurricane Hazel, One Family's Story 