Land Over Landings: A 52-Year Fight to Save Pickering Farmland
In 1972, 18,600 acres of mostly Class 1 farmland in north Pickering were expropriated by the Federal Government for an airport that wasn’t built. They...
Ontario’s Greenbelt Tentatively Holds Strong
In November of 2022, Ontario’s Ford Government passed Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act. It threatened to remove 7,400 acres of highly productive...
Saving Ed Lake: The Cost of Aggregate Extraction
Since 2018, CBM Aggregates, a division of St Marys Cement Inc. (Canada), has been investigating Ed Lake Farm in Aberfoyle as a potential gravel pit...
Fertile Grounds at Risk: Wilmot Township’s Farmland Under Attack
In March of 2024, Wilmot Township, the Region of Waterloo, and the provincial government (through the provincial agency, the Ontario Realty Corporation) contracted a US-based...
NFU-O: Waterloo Region plows under crops while fields burn out west
Farmers Forum July 30, 2024 GUELPH – On July 24, 160 acres of corn, intended for animal silage, in Wilmot Township were ploughed under and...
Taxpayers’ dollars used to plough under crops
Niagara-on-the-Lake Local July 30, 2024 NEWS RELEASE NATIONAL FARMERS UNION–ONTARIO ************************ On July 24th, 160 acres of corn, intended for animal silage, in Wilmot Township...
Region of Waterloo criticized after corn crop on newly purchased Wilmot lands plowed over
CBC Lite July 30, 2024 The Region of Waterloo is being criticized for plowing down a corn crop on land it recently purchased in Wilmot...
Growing Concerns: The Pushback Against Land Expropriation in Wilmot
National Farmers Union – Ontario Newsletter The Rural Voice | May 2024 In early January, farmers and landowners of 770+ acres of prime agricultural land...
Manufacturing “mega-site” on prime farmland is a mega-mistake
Farmers Forum April 3, 2024 GUELPH – Converting 770 acres of prime agricultural land in Wilmot Township into a “mega-site” for an unspecified manufacturing operation is...