<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div>Good Day,</div><div><br></div><div>A reminder that today - Thursday, November 23rd at 7pm is the Greenbelt Victory Celebration in Guelph (more details below) and tomorrow - Friday, November 24th at 5:30pm is our regular bi-weekly Update Meeting on Zoom. Join us to discuss the latest breaking news on the municipal Staff Reports on the Forced Urban Boundary Expansion reversal reversals and news about the GRCA changing the deadline on the closing of the Nature Centres thousands of young students visit annually for outdoor education:</div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82644695701?pwd=bnRsUGtWSUcrRnFWR21uYVBISG9jZz09">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82644695701?pwd=bnRsUGtWSUcrRnFWR21uYVBISG9jZz09</a> </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Here’s the latest news with 5 big stories/issues simultaneously this week:</div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>1) Hamilton Votes 16-0 To Reject Minister Calandra’s Boundary Expansions -</b></span> In a tremendous victory for the citizens of Hamilton, Hamilton Council voted 16-0 to reject the provincial Forced Boundary Expansions that destroyed its visionary and sustainable Official Plan. Their Official Plan will now be restored intact and can proceed with no boundary expansions and see thousands of acres of local farmland protected. Kudos to the people and organizations in Hamilton that worked so hard for years to see this visionary plan developed, approved, and now restored. One local Councillor said that he had recently received over 750 e-mails in support of of their sustainable plan.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">2) Forced Urban Boundary Reversal Reversals - </b>Many local municipalities have Staff Reports coming forward this week and next week in advance of the December 7th deadline to respond to Minister Calandra’s November 2nd letter offering disturbing unilateral decision-making powers to area Mayors to singlehandedly determine the future land needs of their community for decades to come. Thankfully, many Mayors have sought Staff advice and plan to bring information before their Council though lower-tier municipalities don’t have Planning Authority for upper-tier land use plans (Regional Official Plans) or land needs assessment (LNA) expertise, nor do they have the broader regional perspective considering water sources, sewage capacities, road/transportation networks, hospital, and other significant considerations that need to be taken into account when planning growth over vast areas and timelines.</div><div><br></div><div>None of our Mayors or municipalities should be complicit in further the provincial developer scandals when the province still can’t even explain how these parcels were chosen and RCMP investigations are continuing. We need to ensure that our municipalities avoid this provincial corruption, approve our Official Plans intact, and use proper planning processes over the years ahead to determine any additional land needs. </div><div><br></div><div>All our municipalities have already demonstrated they can meet their housing targets with existing land approvals and we still have decades of additional land supply already approved beyond that. There is no urgency or need to bypass proper planning to further the corruption of this scandal-ridden provincial government.</div><div><br></div><div>The status of area municipalities that we are aware of are as follows:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>City of Waterloo -</b> has unanimously passed a fantastic motion raising concerns about the Minister’s approach and expressing strong support to see our Regional Official Plan proceed intact. This motion (attached below) is a fantastic model for other municipalities across Ontario to adopt.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>Woolwich Township - </b>presented a Staff Report on Tuesday disappointingly recommending the Township join in the provincial corruption and ask for all forced boundary expansions to be made permanent - destroying thousands of acres of farmland surrounding Elmira, St. Jacobs, and Breslau. Developers were out in force at the Council meeting but thankfully so were citizens and community groups with excellent delegations. Three Councillors expressed serious concerns about the forced boundary expansions and stated they would vote against the Staff Report, the Mayor was undecided and deferred her decision committing to return with a letter to the Minister by December 5th. We need to continue to send a strong message to Woolwich Township to approve our ROP intact and reject these Forced Boundary Expansions like Hamilton and the City of Waterloo.</div><div><br></div><div><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Wilmot Township -</b> we believe has a Staff Report coming out later this week for presentation to Wilmot Council on Monday, November 27th.</div><div><br></div><div><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cambridge -</b> we believe has a Staff Report coming soon.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>Kitchener -</b> we believe that Mayor Berry Vrbanovic will be bringing a motion he has drafted before Council prior to December 7th.</div><div><br></div><div><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>North Dumfries Township -</b> we believe has a Staff Report coming soon.</div><div><br></div><div><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Wellesley Township -</b> unknown.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b>Wellington County and Local Townships -</b> unknown.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Hold The Line Waterloo Region has updated their automatic e-mail machine to include local Municipal Councillors in Waterloo Region so please ensure that you have spoken up to your local Council as well (all area Councillor addresses including Wellington County also attached at the bottom of this e-mail update):</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hold The Line E-mail Machine:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://petition.town/?campaign=restore-our-countryside-reaffirm-ropa-6">https://petition.town/?campaign=restore-our-countryside-reaffirm-ropa-6</a></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div>Here’s a great front page story from today’s Toronto Star:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Toronto Star - Doug Ford Government’s Sudden Reversal On Boundary Expansion Leaves Municipalities Scrambling: <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/doug-ford-government-s-sudden-reversal-on-boundary-expansion-leaves-municipalities-scrambling/article_a8f9ada2-4712-5b8f-83ec-a31a23330815.html">https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/doug-ford-government-s-sudden-reversal-on-boundary-expansion-leaves-municipalities-scrambling/article_a8f9ada2-4712-5b8f-83ec-a31a23330815.html</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Record - <a href="https://www.therecord.com/news/ontario/doug-ford-government-s-sudden-reversal-on-boundary-expansion-leaves-municipalities-scrambling/article_74db0eeb-5102-5ae8-9e17-ed76540812ca.html">https://www.therecord.com/news/ontario/doug-ford-government-s-sudden-reversal-on-boundary-expansion-leaves-municipalities-scrambling/article_74db0eeb-5102-5ae8-9e17-ed76540812ca.html</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">3) Community Report On Forced Boundary Expansions -</b> The Grand River Environmental Network, Waterloo Federation of Agriculture, and expert planner Kevin Eby have jointly drafted a detailed submission to local municipalities with data and information expressing serious concerns about the provincial Forced Boundary Expansions and urging local Councils to strongly support our Regional Official Plan (ROPA 6) intact instead. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Community Group Submission on ROPA 6 and MMAH Request:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.gren.ca/resources/SubmissionMMAHrequestROPA6.pdf">http://www.gren.ca/resources/SubmissionMMAHrequestROPA6.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>This report is also attached below and should be required reading for all elected officials concluding:</div><div><br></div><div>“There is no legitimate need or justification for local mayors to support the province in repackaging a tainted process by requesting that urban boundary expansions previously imposed by the Minister through modification to ROPA 6 be reinstated. To do so without broad consultation is the antithesis of the good planning processes this region is known for… There is no Provincial policy basis that requires or even supports Ministerial modifications to ROPA 6…"</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div>Please share this report and ensure that your local elected officials have read it.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">4) GRCA To Terminate Nature Education Centres - </b>The Grand River Conservation Authority's (GRCA) alarming decision to cut and end the Nature Centre programs used by area school boards to introduce thousands of children each year to nature has been changed from January to this Friday (tomorrow). We all need to speak up and help to find potential sources of funding to keep these essential programs running. Both local municipalities and businesses could be potential sponsors. Please start to talk to potential funders, contact local politicians (in particular GRCA Board Members such as Jim Erb, Colleen James, Sandy Shantz, Natasha Salonen, Kari Williams, Sue Foxton, Pam Wolf, and Doug Craig - contact information at the bottom of this e-mail) and raise the importance of outdoor education for youth:</div><div><br></div><div>Here’s articles from a few weeks ago when the decision was to have been made in January. We now only have one day to respond instead:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Grand River Conservation Authority Considers Closing Most Outdoor Centres:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/grand-river-conservation-authority-considers-closing-most-outdoor-centres/article_3f5b7fdc-1872-5e97-8279-03f363c994aa.html">https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/grand-river-conservation-authority-considers-closing-most-outdoor-centres/article_3f5b7fdc-1872-5e97-8279-03f363c994aa.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>GRCA Defers Decision on Nature Centres:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/grca-defers-decision-on-nature-centres/article_e886a983-1282-5abf-8873-183cf674bc4f.html">https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/grca-defers-decision-on-nature-centres/article_e886a983-1282-5abf-8873-183cf674bc4f.html</a></div><div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">5) Wilmot Mayor Advocates For Bill 23 and Attacks Regional Government -</b> Wilmot Mayor Natasha Salonen created shock and astonishment with a surprise motion announced in this week’s Waterloo Regional Council Package and that was then hastily withdrawn later in the day. Seldom has such a contentious motion that advocated for the removal of Planning Authority from the Region of Waterloo along with the immediate approval and proclaimation of Bill 23 been seen in the history of the Region. </div><div style="font-size: 12px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px;">The motion would have pitted Mayors, Councillors and municipalities against each other and threatened decades of collaboration and cooperation at the Region. Tens of thousands of citizens have been protesting Bill 23 for over a year now and the Mayor was certainly not representing the citizens of Wilmot Township when so many citizens and organizations have raised grave concerns against this awful Bill that decimates our planning system and attacks democracy along with the systems and processes that have guided our communities to their current success.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Kudos to groups such as Hold The Line Waterloo Region who quickly rallied to raise awareness and create Council submissions against this astonishingly destructive motion that was an unprecedented attack on our Regional government from a local Mayor. Kudos also to City of Waterloo Mayor Dorothy McCabe and other politicians who spoke up in support of our concerns and the successful legacy of decades of collaborative planning success between our municipalities knowing that we are stronger together:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CTV News - “It Creates 7 Warring Fiefdoms”: Community Groups and Waterloo Mayor Question Province’s Urban Boundary Process:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/it-creates-7-warring-fiefdoms-community-groups-and-waterloo-mayor-question-province-s-urban-boundary-process-1.6653258">https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/it-creates-7-warring-fiefdoms-community-groups-and-waterloo-mayor-question-province-s-urban-boundary-process-1.6653258</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hold The Line - Notice of Motion 15.1 Response to Bill 23 and Reversal of Provincial Changes To Official Plans:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=6023">https://pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=6023</a></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">6) Community Organizations File Freedom of Information Requests -</b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"> Five local community groups (Keep the Greenbelt Promise, the Grand River Environmental Network, Hold the Line Waterloo Region, Waterloo Region Yes In My Backyard, and 50x30 Waterloo Region) have taken the unprecedented step of filing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests with the City of Kitchener, Township of Wilmot, and Region of Waterloo to identify if undue pressure on municipal leaders from developers and speculators could result in the breaching of the Countryside Line urban growth boundary and the unnecessary consumption of land reserves intended to last for generations. </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MMAH) has downloaded the decision of wether to amend our Regional Official Plan with Forced Boundary Expansions to area Mayors. This has put Mayors and Councils under considerable pressure from developers whose rural properties increased in value by hundreds of millions of dollars when changed from undevelopable farmland on April 10th to potential sprawling suburbs on April 11th, 2023. This tainted process undermines proper planning and land use decisions by the provincial government and are the subject of investigations by the RCMP, Auditor General and Integrity Commissioner. Growth decisions are too important to be made behind closed doors, without due process, expert staff input, or public consultation. </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">The scope of these FOIs may be expanded and additional FOI requests may be filed with other area municipalities as new information is discovered. A copy of the FOI requests can be found at the following link or the PDF attached below:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Media Release - Community Organizations File FOI Requests:</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><a href="https://greenbeltpromise.ca/media-release">https://greenbeltpromise.ca/media-release</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div><br></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">7) Give Two Hoots - Greenbelt ERO Submissions Deadline November 30th - </b>While Premier Doug Ford doesn’t think people give “Two Hoots” about the Greenbelt, and is only scheduling one hour of hearings for Bill 136 with no public delegations allowed, Greenbelt Promise is hoping to get thousands of people to respond to the Environmental Registry of Ontario (ERO) calling for full and permanent protection of the Ontario’s Greenbelt. November 30th is the deadline for submissions on this Bill 136 ERO so help spread the word and ensure that we have as many voices as possible speaking up for the full protection of the Greenbelt. There’s an easy to use automatic tool on the Greenbelt Promise website to help draft submissions:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://greenbeltpromise.ca/">https://greenbeltpromise.ca/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Key points to emphasize on Bill 136, the Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act include:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- legislating that the 10 year Greenbelt Reviews can only add lands to the Greenbelt with no land removals or land swaps,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- ensure meaningful First Nations consultation,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- prohibit “Pay to Slay” that enables habitat destruction of species at risk in the Greenbelt,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- prohibit the licensing of new aggregate extraction permits in the Greenbelt,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- protect all Prime Agricultural lands in the Greenbelt through Conservation Easements,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- end the grandfathering of previous zoning for development applications within the Greenbelt.</div><div><br></div>You can also submit your support for the Greenbelt, feedback, and ideas directly on the ERO at:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-7739">https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-7739</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>8) Local Greenbelt Celebrations - Guelph Area - Thursday, November 23rd at 7pm - </b></span>Join us at the Opus Lounge (just above Bobby O’Brien’s on Macdonell Street). Complimentary food, fun people, good conversation, and remarks at 8pm! Please RSVP to Anne Moore at <a href="mailto:amoore083@gmail.com">amoore083@gmail.com</a> if you can attend this Guelph event or use the Eventbrite link to RSVP:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/we-won-the-greenbelt-back-lets-celebrate-tickets-753570899847">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/we-won-the-greenbelt-back-lets-celebrate-tickets-753570899847</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Waterloo Region - Thursday, Dec 7th at 7pm -</b></span> Please save the date of Thursday, December 7th for an evening of celebration on our our victories of getting the Greenbelt takeouts, rural severances, and forced boundary expansions cancelled/repealed. Please let us know any ideas for the event and possible locations. We are hoping for something fun, creative, and memorable for folks in the Waterloo Region and anyone who would like to travel here to join us! Stay tuned for more details soon.</div></div><div><br></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">9) Local, Provincial and National Media Coverage -</b> Here's some news articles from the past week as Doug Ford claims people don’t give “Two Hoots” about the Greenbelt, developers threaten Constitutional challenges to see lands removed from the Greenbelt, and the environment is a central issue in the Kitchener-Centre by-election:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CBC - Staff Recommends Niagara Town Ask Province To Keep Its Greenbelt Sites Removed:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/grimsby-greenbelt-1.7032140">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/grimsby-greenbelt-1.7032140</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Record - Too Many Holes In Plan To Address Affordable Housing:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/opinion/columnists/too-many-holes-in-plan-to-address-affordable-housing/article_58ce354f-d062-56e0-8a84-41aa901c0bd9.html">https://www.therecord.com/opinion/columnists/too-many-holes-in-plan-to-address-affordable-housing/article_58ce354f-d062-56e0-8a84-41aa901c0bd9.html</a></div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Record - Home Construction Inches Forward To Half The Pace Needed To Meet Waterloo Region’s Housing Goals:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/home-construction-inches-forward-to-half-the-pace-needed-to-meet-waterloo-region-s-housing/article_0d2fba9f-585b-50b7-8df3-bf482dd99c87.html">https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/home-construction-inches-forward-to-half-the-pace-needed-to-meet-waterloo-region-s-housing/article_0d2fba9f-585b-50b7-8df3-bf482dd99c87.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Toronto Star - Doug Ford Defends Lack Of Public Hearings On Greenbelt Protection Bill:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-defends-lack-of-public-hearings-on-greenbelt-protection-bill/article_8a44bfb7-939b-5364-bd42-10864ad61f91.html">https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-defends-lack-of-public-hearings-on-greenbelt-protection-bill/article_8a44bfb7-939b-5364-bd42-10864ad61f91.html</a></div><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Global News - Doug Ford Says Public “Don’t Give Two Hoots” About Greenbelt Reversal Bill:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10103918/greenbelt-land-return-bill-two-hoots-doug-ford/">https://globalnews.ca/news/10103918/greenbelt-land-return-bill-two-hoots-doug-ford/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Grimsby News - Grimsby Ton Continue With Request For Removal Of Two Land Parcels From The Greenbelt:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.thespec.com/news/council/grimsby-to-continue-with-request-for-removal-of-2-land-parcels-from-the-greenbelt/article_6c4238d1-3dba-5025-b09d-80d00b35a42a.html#tncms-source=hamilton-region">https://www.thespec.com/news/council/grimsby-to-continue-with-request-for-removal-of-2-land-parcels-from-the-greenbelt/article_6c4238d1-3dba-5025-b09d-80d00b35a42a.html#tncms-source=hamilton-region</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Record - Vote In Kitchener Centre Byelection As If Our Future Depends On It:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/opinion/columnists/vote-in-kitchener-centre-byelection-as-if-our-future-depends-on-it/article_6293a9d5-f912-596d-bcd0-2dc1bdc28429.html">https://www.therecord.com/opinion/columnists/vote-in-kitchener-centre-byelection-as-if-our-future-depends-on-it/article_6293a9d5-f912-596d-bcd0-2dc1bdc28429.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Global News - Developer Asks For Greenbelt Bill Amendment; Lawyers Raise Spectre Of Constitutional Challenge:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10108243/developer-asks-greenbelt-bill-amendment/#:~:text=The%20owner%20of%20one%20of,the%20legislation%20passes%20as%20is">https://globalnews.ca/news/10108243/developer-asks-greenbelt-bill-amendment/#:~:text=The%20owner%20of%20one%20of,the%20legislation%20passes%20as%20is</a></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">10) ALO Building Hope Webinar - Helping Secure Your Financial Future By Building Missing Middle Housing -</b> Continuing the very successful Alliance for a Liveable Ontario (ALO) Building Hope Webinar Series, on Monday, December 4th at 7pm the next webinar on helping to secure your financial future by building an addition, laneway house or garden suite will be held. Register online and encourage others to attend at:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GIbaEsfuQ12uQa_Vva_TFg#/registration">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GIbaEsfuQ12uQa_Vva_TFg#/registration</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">11) ALO Releases New Housing Report -</b> The Alliance for a Liveable Ontario has released new data that shows the province is building the wrong housing types and that more than 300,000 1 bedroom units costing about $1,100 per month is needed. This report on Housing Needs by Home Size and Income is attached below and can be found onlilne at:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ALO House Needs By Home Size and Income Report and Infographic:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tu69suc9aQofAVZCM6hbNRG3-gt11s9N/view">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tu69suc9aQofAVZCM6hbNRG3-gt11s9N/view</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>12) Ontario Headwaters Institute ERO Submission and Petition </b>-</span> Speak up on Bill 136, The Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act through an easy to sign Change.org petition created by the Ontario Headwaters Institute and use their excellent submission to the Environmental Registry of Ontario (ERO) as a guide to your own submission. Kudos to the Ontario Headwaters Institute (OHI) for these fantastic tools. Please share them widely:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Change.org Petition - Ontario Must Work Harder To Restore Public Trust In The Greenbelt:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.change.org/p/ontario-must-work-harder-to-restore-public-trust-in-the-greenbelt">https://www.change.org/p/ontario-must-work-harder-to-restore-public-trust-in-the-greenbelt</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Submission to ERO 019-7739 Proposal To Return Lands To The Greenbelt - Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://ontarioheadwaters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/OHI-on-ERO-019-3799-Greenbelt-Statute-Law-Amendment-Act-Nov-22.pdf">https://ontarioheadwaters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/OHI-on-ERO-019-3799-Greenbelt-Statute-Law-Amendment-Act-Nov-22.pdf</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>13) Stop New Gravel Mines And Highways In The Greenbelt - </b></span>The Reform Gravel Mining Coalition has a great new one-click tool to send an ERO comment to help protect the Greenbelt by prohibiting new gravel pits, quarries, and 400 series highways in the Greenbelt:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.reformgravelmining.ca/ero_comment_greenbelt?">https://www.reformgravelmining.ca/ero_comment_greenbelt?</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><b>14) Other Relevant News:</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> Private Healthcare, failing universities, Ontario Place, and cooked books on provincial economic statements are all things that we need to be paying attention to:</span></p></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Record - Doug Ford Made A Mess Of Ontario’s Universities. Now He Needs To Undo The Damage:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/politics/political-opinion/doug-ford-made-a-mess-of-ontario-s-postsecondary-schools-now-he-needs-to-undo/article_70bb285e-2255-5f22-8b09-205f0d4f034a.html">https://www.therecord.com/politics/political-opinion/doug-ford-made-a-mess-of-ontario-s-postsecondary-schools-now-he-needs-to-undo/article_70bb285e-2255-5f22-8b09-205f0d4f034a.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>IJF - Doug Ford Quietly Increased Funding To Private Hospitals Run By His Donors By 60 Percent:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://theijf.org/doug-ford-quietly-increased-funding-to-private-hospitals-run-by-his-donors-by-60-per-cent">https://theijf.org/doug-ford-quietly-increased-funding-to-private-hospitals-run-by-his-donors-by-60-per-cent</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Toronto Star - Why This Architect is Quitting Ford’s Ontario Place Revamp:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/it-s-time-for-telling-the-truth-ontario-place-architect-steps-away-from-doug-ford/article_e3979632-e36b-5261-b4c4-7dd27a91101d.html">https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/it-s-time-for-telling-the-truth-ontario-place-architect-steps-away-from-doug-ford/article_e3979632-e36b-5261-b4c4-7dd27a91101d.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Record - How Ontario Cooked Its Own Books:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/opinion/columnists/how-ontario-cooked-its-own-books-two-very-different-fall-economic-statements-tell-the-tale/article_d03b5c8a-90ed-5c93-9cfc-cafc4e196869.html?">https://www.therecord.com/opinion/columnists/how-ontario-cooked-its-own-books-two-very-different-fall-economic-statements-tell-the-tale/article_d03b5c8a-90ed-5c93-9cfc-cafc4e196869.html?</a></div></div><div><br></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>15) Halton Hills Gas Plant Town Hall Event - Monday, Nov 27th at 7pm - </b></span>Attend this interactive Town Hall meeting to learn from leading expert speakers on the proposed new gas plant in Halton Hills and the major adverse impacts it will have on public health, air quality, affordability, climate change, and our economy. Register online at the following link:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/139068/event/1">https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/139068/event/1</a></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">16) Two Hoots - </b>We found out that the government has scheduled only one hour of Bill 136 hearings, and will not be allowing deputations from the public. The NDP asked about this in the legislature on Monday.. Premier Doug Ford said the people “don’t give two hoots” about Bill 136. Here is the transcript: </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><u><i>Land use planning</i></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>Ms. Sandy Shaw:</b> This government is planning to allow only one hour of committee hearings to discuss Bill 136, Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act. The Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing intends to use up that entire hour.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Ontarians are rightfully outraged by this government’s actions on the greenbelt, so why are you blocking the public from being heard?</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>The Speaker (Hon. Ted Arnott):</b> Government House leader.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>Hon. Paul Calandra:</b> I don’t know, Speaker, I think I’m a pretty entertaining guy when I get up there. I think I add value to the hearings. I think that the members opposite would want to hear from cabinet ministers. In fact, it was this government that made it mandatory for cabinet ministers to actually appear before committees to defend their bills. I want to thank the Premier for insisting that we do that.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>When it comes to the Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, we’ve made it clear. We made a public-policy decision that wasn’t supported by the people of the province of Ontario. The opposition, I assume, was going to vote in favour of that repeal. At the same time, it is still on the environmental registry for a 30-day consultation from people and from Indigenous communities.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>There is ample opportunity for the public to participate and to have their say. That will all be framed as part of the committee hearings before this House votes on third reading.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>The Speaker (Hon. Ted Arnott):</b> Supplementary question.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>Ms. Sandy Shaw:</b> Do you know what? In Ontario, we’ve heard enough from cabinet ministers. We need to hear from the public. That’s what we need in this province.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>The second biggest parts of land removed from the greenbelt was located in Hamilton. The Integrity Commissioner reported details about how favoured greenbelt developers in Hamilton received preferential treatment from this government. The Premier repeatedly called one of these speculators, and the PC Party fundraising Chair sold this speculator tickets to the Premier daughter’s stag and doe.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Why is the government blocking the public from participating in the Bill 136 hearings? Is it possibly to avoid accountability for preferential treatment of the Premier’s special greenbelt friends?</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>The Speaker (Hon. Ted Arnott):</b> Premier.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>Hon. Doug Ford:</b> To answer the opposition’s question, she said, “We need to hear from the public.” Do you know why you aren’t hearing from the public? They don’t give two hoots about that.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>I’ll tell you what they care about. They care about their interest rates going up. They care about affordable homes that they block every single vote we have that makes things easier--and more affordable homes. They worry about the next year or two when their interest rates get jacked up. All of a sudden, they’re paying three, four, or $5,000 more a month. That’s what they care about. The number one issue on every poll: independent, other polls, is number one—bar none—is making sure their gas is affordable, hoping that the federal government will take the 14 cents of the carbon tax off the litre of gas. They care about having affordable groceries. They care about having affordable homes.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Second, in any poll, it’s the economy, making sure that they have a stable job to ensure that they have an income to buy that house—</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b>The Speaker (Hon. Ted Arnott):</b> Thank you. Thank you. The Premier will take his seat.</i></p></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; 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-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">17) Reminder - Meeting This Friday</b><b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> -</span></b> Join us tomorrow - Friday, November 24th at 5:30pm to discuss the latest news and what’s next:</div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Topic: Grand River Watershed Bill 23 Bi-Weekly Zoom Meeting</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Time: Every Other Friday at 5:30pm EST</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Join Zoom Meeting</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82644695701?pwd=bnRsUGtWSUcrRnFWR21uYVBISG9jZz09">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82644695701?pwd=bnRsUGtWSUcrRnFWR21uYVBISG9jZz09</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Meeting ID: 826 4469 5701</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Passcode: 713374</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Thanks for all the great efforts so far - please share any questions or ideas.</div><div><div id="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770yqtfd24641" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770yqt1303954863"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr"><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><span class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000Apple-style-span">Cheers,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">Kevin Thomason and Mike Marcolongo on behalf of all our community groups.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font style="font-size: 14px;">A) Upcoming Events</font></b></div><div><br></div><div><div>Thursday, November 23rd - 7pm - Guelph Greenbelt Success Celebration Event - Opus Lounge, Macdonell Street, Guelph - RSVP to Anne Moore at <a href="mailto:amoore083@gmail.com">amoore083@gmail.com</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Thursday. November 23rd - 7pm to 8:30pm - Kitchener-Centre Election All-Candidates Meeting -St. John’s Church - 23 Water Street, Kitchener</div></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div>Friday, November 24th<b style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> - 5:30pm - Next update meeting on Zoom - </span><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82644695701?pwd=bnRsUGtWSUcrRnFWR21uYVBISG9jZz09" style="font-weight: 400;">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82644695701?pwd=bnRsUGtWSUcrRnFWR21uYVBISG9jZz09</a></b></div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; 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-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div></div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Friday, November 24th - 8pm to 9pm - Climate Emergency Vigil - Waterloo Public Square <font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">- </span></font><a href="https://www.faithclimatejustice.ca/climate-vigils.html">https://www.faithclimatejustice.ca/climate-vigils.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Monday, November 27th - 7pm - Halton Hills Gas Plant Town Hall Event - <a href="https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/139068/event/1">https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/139068/event/1</a></div><div><br></div><div>Wednesday, November 29th - 7pm - CELA Water Conversations Line 5 Pipeline - <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuceGhrzgsHdORoB4SjnSieulwijOLSuNn#/registration">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuceGhrzgsHdORoB4SjnSieulwijOLSuNn#/registration</a></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div>Thursday, November 30th - Final day to comment on ERO Deadline to the Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act - <a href="https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-7739">https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-7739</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>Monday, December 4th - 7pm - ALO Building Hope Webinar - Laneway Houses, Garden Suites and Additions - <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GIbaEsfuQ12uQa_Vva_TFg#/registration">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GIbaEsfuQ12uQa_Vva_TFg#/registration</a></div><div><br></div></div><div>Thursday, December 7th - Save the Date! - Local Waterloo Region Celebration for Our Successes - Help us plan the location and event details.</div><div><br></div><div><div>------------------------------------</div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; 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