<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><div class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><br class="">-------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Kevin Thomason</div><div class="">Vice-Chair, Grand River Environmental Network<br class=""><br class="">Phone: (519) 888-0519<br class="">Mobile Phone/WhatsApp: (519) 240-1648<br class="">Twitter: @kthomason<br class=""><a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com" class="">E-mail: kevinthomason@mac.com</a><br class=""><br class="">-----------------------------------------</div></div></div></div><div id="div1195" class="asset-header" loaded="true" lpos="asset-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 711px; float: left;"><div article="" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 20px 20px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: hidden;"><h1 class="ar-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: condensed; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-size: 38px; font-family: "UniversLTStd BoldCn", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim Gray: The big return of urban sprawl in Ontario</h1><h2 class="ar-sub-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: condensed; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-family: "UniversLTStd BoldCn", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Ontario keeps finding new ways to threaten our farms, drinking water and forests</h2><section class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><category class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(197, 42, 44); padding: 3px 5px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 14px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: center; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 1px; display: inline-block; font-family: UniversLTStd59UltraCondensed, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; vertical-align: middle;">OPINION</category> <date class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 12px; color: rgb(110, 110, 110); font-size: 14px; font-family: Univers, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;">Feb 22, 2019</date> <author class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "UniversLTStd BoldCn", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; color: rgb(197, 42, 44) !important;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;">by </span>Tim Gray</author> <name class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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