<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold" class=""><br style=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold" class="">Local</span></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_7_1398884526350_6" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold" class=""><br></span></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_7_1398884526350_6 yui_3_13_0_7_1398884526350_477" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida
Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(157, 24, 17);">2014 Farmland Forum: The Region of Waterloo experience created by Region of Waterloo Planning Director Kevin Eby as presented to Ontario Farmland Trust</span></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_7_1398884526350_6 yui_3_13_0_7_1398884526350_477" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="">-review of Waterloo moraine, aggregate and farmland issues in the face of provincial growth targets. </span></div><div class="yui_3_13_0_7_1398884526350_6" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"
class=""><a href="http://ontariofarmlandtrust.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Farmland-Protection-the-Region-of-Waterloo-Experience-Kevin-Eby-2.pdf">http://ontariofarmlandtrust.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Farmland-Protection-the-Region-of-Waterloo-Experience-Kevin-Eby-2.pdf</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;"><br class="" style=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;">Close to 500 sustainability leaders joined Sustainable Waterloo
Region to celebrate the release of it's new report. Press release with video links here: </span><a href="http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1344713/organizations-in-waterloo-region-are-changing-the-face-of-environmental-sustainability" style="font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1344713/organizations-in-waterloo-region-are-changing-the-face-of-environmental-sustainability</a><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)" class="">Highway 7 expansion won’t start until 2016, leaked document suggests </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)" class=""><a href="http://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/4441541-highway-7-expansion-won-t-start-until-2016-leaked-document-suggests/" class="" style="">http://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/4441541-highway-7-expansion-won-t-start-until-2016-leaked-document-suggests/</a></span><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700" class=""><br class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal"><span class="" style="">Kitchener to Toronto in 48 minutes by train? That’s the plan, transportation minister says: </span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal"><a href="http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4492194-kitchener-to-toronto-in-48-minutes-by-train-that-s-the-plan-transportation-minister-says/" class="" style="">http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4492194-kitchener-to-toronto-in-48-minutes-by-train-that-s-the-plan-transportation-minister-says/</a><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold" class="">Provincial</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class="">The Ontario Ministry of Energy Conservation Directive will reduce energy use in Ontario by 7 billion KW by 2020. That represents a 5% reduction in energy use in Ontario. The main document is here : <a href="http://www.powerauthority.on.ca/sites/default/files/news/MC-2014-856.pdf" class="" style="">http://www.powerauthority.on.ca/sites/default/files/news/MC-2014-856.pdf</a> and the numbers were
confirmed by Clean Energy Alliance of Ontario. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class="">There is a rally to stop Tar Sands and Fracking taking place at Toronto City Hall on May the 10th which is part of a National day of action. <a href="http://stopfrackingontario.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/toronto-day-of-action-no-tar-sands-no-fracking-no-line-9/" class="" style="">http://stopfrackingontario.wordpress.com/2014/04/26/toronto-day-of-action-no-tar-sands-no-fracking-no-line-9/</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class="">Lack of
vitamin B1 is killing Great Lakes Fish. <a href="http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3868#.U2FRr3VdXWR" class="" style="">http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3868#.U2FRr3VdXWR</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">NASA's view of the extreme ice conditions happening in the Great Lakes this year. (the graph and photos are remarkable) </div><div style="background-color: transparent" class=""><a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83541&src=twitter&utm_content=buffer3cda5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" class=""
style="">http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83541&src=twitter&utm_content=buffer3cda5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</a><br class="" style=""></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><br class="" style=""></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;">Dr. Sharri Mason, a chemistry Prof at State University of New York at Fredonia is studying plastic beads in the Great Lakes. She states "90% of the plastic that we found was in Lake Erie. The largest being around 450,000 plastic particles per square kilometer, which in kind of more layman terms, that's over 1 million plastic particles
per square mile." </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=251664454" class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 24px">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=251664454</a></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold" class="">National</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold" class=""><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span class="">Environmental Groups won in court forcing Ottawa to review the approval of up to 385 pesticide products containing 23 active ingredients, many with links to Cancer and water contamination. <a
href="http://www.ecojustice.ca/media-centre/press-releases/environmental-groups-force-ottawa-to-review-approval-of-hundreds-of-pesticide-products">http://www.ecojustice.ca/media-centre/press-releases/environmental-groups-force-ottawa-to-review-approval-of-hundreds-of-pesticide-products</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class="">Environment Canada's new Water page highlights various water quality issues across Canada. <a href="http://www.ec.gc.ca/eau-water/" class="" style="">http://www.ec.gc.ca/eau-water/</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class="">The BC Civil liberties association has form letters folks can use to find out if the NEB, CSIS or RCMP has breached privacy for those participating in public processes. Evidence shows data was given to big oil firms during NEB pipeline hearings and that act was illegal. For folks wanting to make an inquiry on whether or not their private data was breached, the form letters are here: <a href="http://bccla.org/dont-spy-on-me/10388-2/" class="" style="">http://bccla.org/dont-spy-on-me/10388-2/</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold" class=""><br class="" style=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold" class="">International</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="" style=""><span class="" style=""><br class="" style="">Explosion of de-railed crude oil train in Lynchburg VA leaked in lake. Very Lac Megantic like explosion: </span><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/14-train-cars-hauling-crude-oil-derailed-in-virginia-1.2627407" class="" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
font-size: 10pt">http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/14-train-cars-hauling-crude-oil-derailed-in-virginia-1.2627407</a><br class="" style=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class="">New reports show cities are SINKING into the ocean do to the over-withdrawl of aquifers. To the point they're going below sea levels. <span style="background-color: transparent" class="">(Wondering what sort of local geological impacts our well systems have.) <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2616714/Forget-global-warming-groundwater-extraction-causing-megacities-SINK-beneath-sea-level.html" class=""
style="">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2616714/Forget-global-warming-groundwater-extraction-causing-megacities-SINK-beneath-sea-level.html</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent">El Nino is 70 percent likely to happen in 2014 and already a global economic warning has been issued regarding food security issues. </div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent"><a href="http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/550044/20140429/food-markets-drought-el-ni-o-australia.htm#.U2EisYNE3Fo" class="" style="">http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/550044/20140429/food-markets-drought-el-ni-o-australia.htm#.U2EisYNE3Fo</a></div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent"><br class="" style=""></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;
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