<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=utf-8"></head><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font size="4" class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;"><div class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">-----------------------------</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font size="4" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">C) Welcome Back Gathering February 21st at Queen’s Park</font></b></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font size="4" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><br class=""></font></b></div></div></div></div></font></b></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="x_x_elementToProof" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted1" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0cm;"><div class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;">After a nice long 10-week break, the Ontario House of Legislature gets back to the business of burning Ontario's Healthcare, Education, Environment and Democracy to the ground while failing to meet our collective need for affordable housing, transit, decent wages, an anti-poverty strategy, or a sustainable future. (note, this is not an exhaustive list by any means!) </div><div class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><br class="x_x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0"></div><div class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px;">On February 21 Ontarians are invited to a Protection Gathering where we will sing, chant and dance and work together for a better future. This peaceful and powerful event will tell the Progressive Conservative Party that Ontario demands better. <span class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted1 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted4 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; display: inline !important;">Help us</span><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted1 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted4 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span title="" class="ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_x_ContentPasted1" style="margin: 0px;">welcome</span><span class="x_x_x_ContentPasted1 x_x_ContentPasted0 x_x_ContentPasted4 ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px; display: inline !important;"> Doug back from his cottage with a cross-sectional gathering of friends. </span></span><br class="x_x_ContentPasted4 ContentPasted0 x_x_Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class="">-----------------------------</span></span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px;"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="4" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">D) COWA (Coalition of Ontario Watershed Alliances) Update</font></b></span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0px;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><br class=""></font></span></span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin: 0px;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px;"><span class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Below is an update from Andrew McCammon at COWA - please reach out to him at <a href="mailto:andrew@ontarioheadwaters.ca" class="">andrew@ontarioheadwaters.ca</a> for more information.</font></span></span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px;"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="4" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><br class=""></font></b></span></div><div class="x_x_x_x_elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="margin: 0px;"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="4" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"></font></b></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>