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TORONTO — Ontario’s Divisional Court has upheld a provincial regulation that exempts major industries from the Endangered Species Act and allows them to kill species at risk and destroy their habitat. “This is a disappointing decision for Ontario’s endangered and … Continued
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Senate committee rejects all amendments to Rouge National Urban Park Act Toronto, ON—Leading environmental conservation groups in the province stand by Ontario’s decision to not transfer provincially controlled lands to the federal government for the proposed Rouge National Urban Park … Continued
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Today the Ontario government released its discussion paper on climate change acknowledging the global significance of carbon stored in the province’s Far North boreal ecosystems and the need to protect these terrestrial carbon stores. CPAWS Wildlands League welcomes this and … Continued
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January 27 2015 Ottawa, ON — Yesterday’s passage of the Rouge National Urban Park Act by the House of Commons is no cause for celebration. The proposed legislation fails to establish nature conservation as the priority in park management, ignoring … Continued
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January 14, 2014 – TORONTO – Ecojustice lawyers are in court today challenging an Ontario government regulation that allows major industrial sectors to kill species at-risk and destroy their habitat. The regulation provides broad exemptions from prohibitions in Ontario’s Endangered … Continued
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January 13, 2015 – TORONTO — Ecojustice lawyers will appear in court this week to challenge a decision to gut endangered species legislation in Ontario. The lawyers, representing Ontario Nature and Wildlands League, will argue that the Ontario government acted unlawfully when … Continued
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December 16, 2014 — Toronto, ON — In its second annual review of governments’ efforts to conserve Canada’s boreal caribou, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) finds that threats from industrial development to boreal woodland caribou have continued to … Continued
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November 18, 2014 – Ottawa – Members of Parliament are being asked to scrap Bill C-40 after the committee hearings on the Rouge National Urban Park Act rejected all proposed amendments to strengthen the legislation. The current bill is weak … Continued
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TORONTO –CPAWS Wildlands League, a leading conservation group in the province, welcomes the Environmental Commissioner’s latest report, which calls for an end to logging in Ontario’s Algonquin Park. Wildlands League has been working to remove logging from Algonquin since 1968. … Continued
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September 3, 2014 – TORONTO – The Ontario government did the right thing yesterday by deciding not to transfer its substantial Rouge Park lands to Parks Canada until the federal legislation and management plan for Rouge Park are significantly strengthened. … Continued