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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
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Toronto, December 18, 2013 — In the face of growing demands for hydro power to service mining and to enable future connections north of Pickle Lake in Northwestern Ontario, a new independent study finds that of six proposed transmission routes … Continued
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Santa’s reindeers’ cousins fared worse in ON Toronto – December 17, 2013 – In the first annual assessment of how well provinces and territories are enacting the requirements for conservation plans, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) and David Suzuki … Continued
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September 10, 2013 – TORONTO – Environmental groups are suing the Ontario government for its decision to exempt major threats to species at risk from the province’s Endangered Species Act (ESA). Read more here.