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Northeast Pickering Secondary Plan

What’s the issue?   The City of Pickering is utilizing a procedural bypass to fast-track the proposed 4,356-acre (1,763 ha) urban expansion in the Northeast...
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Alto High Speed Rail Line

What’s the issue?   The proposed Alto high-speed rail project is being positioned as a nation-building initiative, promising faster, electrified passenger service across Canada’s busiest...
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The Pickering Lands

What’s the issue?   The Pickering Lands have been under development threat since 1972, when the Government of Canada acquired 18,600 acres of land to...
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Eastern Ontario residents raise concerns proposed high-speed rail will impact farms

As the plans for high-speed rail in Ontario and Quebec kick into high gear, some residents are raising concerns over the impact on farms in...
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2025 Year In Review

Letter from the President Greetings! We hope your season ended well this year. 2025 was a difficult season for many with extreme droughts and flooding...
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The Rocky Road to Protecting Prime Soils in Stone Mills

Back in 2006, after a partial and incomplete survey of local farmers, Stone Mills Township rezoned the bulk of its agricultural lands (including prime farmland...
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This Ontario Farmer is Leading a Movement to Stop a Highway

David Suzuki Foundation November 7, 2024 Max Hansgen loves his job. He loves to be outside and to work with his hands, and in a...
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Say NO to Flato Development Inc.’s Farmland Grab Scheme in Kawartha

In 2021, Flato Developments Inc. began lobbying the Kawartha city council to rezone 156 hectares of farmland in Cameron from “agricultural” and “rural” to “tourist...
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Fields not Fences: Stop the Proposed Prison on Kemptville Farmland

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs plans to transfer the former Kemptville College farm property to the Ministry of the Solicitor general for...
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