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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>-the latest slashing event in the news this week: Funding to some important library services to be cut by 50% - <a href="https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/04/18/ford-government-cuts-ontario-library-service-budgets-in-half.html">https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/04/18/ford-government-cuts-ontario-library-service-budgets-in-half.html</a> affecting many small rural and northern libraries who have been interviewed this week on CBC radio -how this will be devastating for them-things like the transportation for sharing books between libraries (twice a week pick up and drop offs would have to be reduced to one, or be gone-including large print books for isolated seniors) – so meaningful to people<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>And….Is Postponing and limiting the number of funded safe injection sites on there already? No matter that people are dying while they make up their minds it would seem<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Endangered Species Act- warped idea of the week - he wants to make developers pay a fee to environmental groups after they’ve already built on the land that they wouldn’t have been allowed to build on before he took away all the protection mechanisms </span><span style='color:windowtext'> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-developers-fees-endangered-species-protect-1.5104278"><span style='color:blue'>https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-developers-fees-endangered-species-protect-1.5104278</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Lori</span><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> All <all-bounces@gren.ca> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Susan Koswan<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 23, 2019 1:32 PM<br><b>To:</b> Grand River Environmental Network (GREN) <all@gren.ca><br><b>Subject:</b> [All] programs cut or cancelled by Ford<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>HI GRENers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I'm working on a list of everything we hold dear that Ford has cut and cancelled. Please let me know what I've missed ASAP. NOT just environmental, I want everything. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Susan K <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Cut or Cancelled:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Funding for College of Midwives<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Cap and Trade<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Teaching jobs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Green Energy Act<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Autism funding<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Toxic Reduction Act<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Independent Environment Commissioner<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Conservation Authority Funding<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Almost half of Toronto City Council<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Basic Income Pilot project<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Free prescriptions for youth with private insurance<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Cap on scalpers’ ticket prices<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>$100 million for school repairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Updated sex education curriculum<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>