<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 dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Good Day!</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;">The provincial government has rammed Bill 212 through the Legislature expediting devastating highways while destroying essential bike lanes, the Fight For Farmland continues with great delegations and parades in Wilmot, some good news with the Region of Waterloo surpassing Affordable Housing goals, the City of Waterloo’s visionary Official Plan comes for final approval on Monday, and lots of events around the Grand River watershed.</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>Join us on Zoom tonight at 5:30pm to discuss and learn more:</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Join us tonight - Friday, November 29th at 5:30pm:</div><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=bnRsUGtWSUcrRnFWR21uYVBISG9jZz0</a></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div>Here’s the latest:</div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">1) Bill 212 Rushed Through Legislature - </b>Doing everything possible to curtail debate and opportunities for feedback, while also exempting proper due diligence and environmental assessments for the unnecessary and devastating Highway #413, the Ford government pushed Bill 212 through the Legislature earlier this week. This bill is devastating for Ontario with dangerous new precedents being set for expropriation, overriding individual rights and private property laws, and eliminating proper planning as well as due legal process.</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;">There has been a ton of media coverage including:</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>The Narwhal - Ontario’s Bill 212 Passed: Highway #413 Is In and Bike Lanes Are Out. What Now?:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-highway-413-bill-passed/">https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-highway-413-bill-passed/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Trillium - Ford Government Passes Bill To Remove Three Toronto Bike Lanes:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/municipalities-transit-and-infrastructure/ford-government-passes-bill-remove-3-toronto-bike-lanes-9861819">https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/municipalities-transit-and-infrastructure/ford-government-passes-bill-remove-3-toronto-bike-lanes-9861819</a></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Kingsville Times - Will Bill 212 Destroy More Ontario Farmland?:</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://kingsvilletimes.ca/2024/11/ontario-nature-asks-will-bill-212-destroy-more-ontario-farmland/">https://kingsvilletimes.ca/2024/11/ontario-nature-asks-will-bill-212-destroy-more-ontario-farmland/</a></div><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Trillium Talk - "This Is A Political Decision And People Are Going To Be Killed”:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thetrillium.ca/trillium-talk/trillium-talk-this-is-a-political-decision-and-people-are-going-to-be-killed-9849955">https://www.thetrillium.ca/trillium-talk/trillium-talk-this-is-a-political-decision-and-people-are-going-to-be-killed-9849955</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Trillium - Indigenous Consultation Among Legal Risks To Expediting Highway #413: Draft Cabinet Document:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/indigenous-rural-and-northern-affairs/indigenous-consultation-among-legal-risks-to-expediting-highway-413-draft-cabinet-doc-9872685">https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/indigenous-rural-and-northern-affairs/indigenous-consultation-among-legal-risks-to-expediting-highway-413-draft-cabinet-doc-9872685</a></div><div><br></div></div><div>Environmental Defence issued a great media statement stating the overwhelming case for re-instating the federal government’s Impact Assessment:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Passage Of Bill 212 Leaves Canada’s Federal Government With No Alternative But To Restore Federal Impact Assessment Act Oversight Of Highway 413:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://environmentaldefence.ca/2024/11/25/passage-of-bill-212-leaves-canadas-federal-government-with-no-alternative-but-to-restore-federal-impact-assessment-act-oversight-of-highway-413/">https://environmentaldefence.ca/2024/11/25/passage-of-bill-212-leaves-canadas-federal-government-with-no-alternative-but-to-restore-federal-impact-assessment-act-oversight-of-highway-413/</a></div><div><br></div><div>More than 120 Scientists have signed a letter calling for a Federal Impact Assessment:, read the letter as a PDF in Appendix B) below or 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>CBC - More Than 100 Scientists Call On Ottawa To Order Assessment Of Ontario’s Highway 413 Project:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/highway-413-scientists-urge-federal-assessment-1.7395209">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/highway-413-scientists-urge-federal-assessment-1.7395209</a></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Toronto Star - Scientists Urge Federal Environmental Review Of Fast-Tracked Highway #413:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/scientists-urge-federal-environmental-review-of-fast-tracked-highway-413/article_629da6f2-adbd-11ef-8c6e-ebe9fdc90c63.html">https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/scientists-urge-federal-environmental-review-of-fast-tracked-highway-413/article_629da6f2-adbd-11ef-8c6e-ebe9fdc90c63.html</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Leadnow has a petition that you can sign:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://leadnow.ca/campaigns/on-bikelanes24/">https://leadnow.ca/campaigns/on-bikelanes24/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Action Required - What you can do about Bill 212:</b></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1) If you missed it watch the excellent Environmental Defence webinar now recorded on YouTube:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Environmental Defence Clock Is Ticking Webinar - Watch Recording:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o74WZqCsdCQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o74WZqCsdCQ</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2) Encourage the Federal government to intervene on Highway #413. Here’s a great sample letter:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://environmentaldefence.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Guilbeault-413-letter_Nov.-2024.pdf">https://environmentaldefence.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Guilbeault-413-letter_Nov.-2024.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3) Attend the upcoming Guelph Climate Action Network (GCAN) and Seniors For Climate Action Now (SCAN) event - Why Highway #413 Is Our Road To Ruin - Ontario At A Crossroads with speaker Mike Marcolongo. Details are as follows:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Date: Tuesday, December 3rd from 7pm to 9pm</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Location: artBar, 37 Quebec Street, Upper Level, downtown Guelph</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Learn more in the poster attached below.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4) Keep speaking up to elected officials and demand better.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;">2) Fight For Farmland -</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span>Media coverage continued this week with </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Waterloo Economic Development Corporation President and CEO Tony Lamantia saying he laughed when he heard US President-elect Trump’s comments about implementing a 25% tariff on Canadian goods. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">What is not so humorous is the farmers impacted by the Wilmot land assembly plan that have been left in limbo for over 9 months. The farmers need certainty. Waterloo’s Regional Planning authority will cease in January 2025, many questions are left unanswered.</span></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">CBC Kitchener - Waterloo Economic Development Corporation Tempers Concerns Over Proposed Tariffs By Bombastic Trump:</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-region-economic-development-tariffs-trump-lamantia-1.7394590" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-region-economic-development-tariffs-trump-lamantia-1.7394590</span></a></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><b>Wilmot Delegation -</b> On Monday night Wilmot resident Katie Honek gave an incredible delegation at Wilmot Council calling out parallels between the regular land acknowledgment at each Council meeting and the lack of action or response to widespread community concerns on the proposed Wilmot mega-industrial site. Watch her very impressive presentation on Youtube start at the 10:00 mark at:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fG53FwCU8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fG53FwCU8</a></div><div><br></div><div>Or check out her written presentation at:<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xFuvuIn6XOfBOf9f75RBccxNtctsLrcNsJCEdCEUm2g/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xFuvuIn6XOfBOf9f75RBccxNtctsLrcNsJCEdCEUm2g/edit</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Media Coverage and Publications - </b>Thanks to Ontario Nature Magazine for covering the Fight For Farmland in their winter edition just out this week:</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://catalog.ontarionature.org/winter-2024/page/12-13">https://catalog.ontarionature.org/winter-2024/page/12-13</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also out this week is an excellent new book about the Xinyi Glass Plant battle citizens won in Stratford. Learn about it and the many parallels to the Wilmot situation in this excellent article:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>My Stratford Now - Book Highlights Winning Campaign Against Glass Factory in Stratford:</div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.mystratfordnow.com/121435/a-winning-campaign-officially-launched-in-stratford/">https://www.mystratfordnow.com/121435/a-winning-campaign-officially-launched-in-stratford/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Santa Claus Parades - </b><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Join us this weekend for the Fight For Farmland float in area Santa Claus parades. A volunteer team has done a great job of decorating Stewart Snyder's hay wagon as a float, Stratford Farm Equipment is supplying a fully decorated tractor, and we will be in the following parades this weekend:</span></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Baden Santa Claus Parade on Saturday, November 30th at 12pm, </span></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- The New Hamburg Santa Claus Parade on Sunday, December 1st at 6:00pm.</span></div><div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Upcoming Council Meetings</b> - Join us at the next Region of Waterloo Council meeting on Wednesday, December 11th at 6:30pm where we will have delegations speaking on the Wilmot Land Assembly. and also on Monday, December 16th at the Township of Wilmot where we will have at least one delegation for the Fight For Farmland. Also, If you can add your voice and speak up at either of these upcoming meetings please register to speak with the Wilmot Clerk at <a href="mailto:clerks@wilmot.ca">clerks@wilmot.ca</a> and/or the Regional Clerk at <a href="mailto:regionalclerk@regionofwaterloo.ca">regionalclerk@regionofwaterloo.ca</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Region of Waterloo Council Meeting: 150 Fredrick Street East, Kitchener - </b>Wednesday, December 11th - Council Meeting starts at 7:00pm</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wilmot Township Council: 60 Snyder’s Road West, Baden - </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday, December 16th - Council Meeting starts at 7:00 pm</span></div></div><div><br></div></div><div><b>Action Required -</b> Attend upcoming events, and call or write elected officials at Wilmot Township, the Region of Waterloo and the provincial government and tell them to finally abandon this absurd Wilmot Industrial Mega-site location - that we are an UNWILLING community, the landowners have made it clear they are UNWILLING, and a better plan is needed.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>3) Waterloo Region Surpasses Affordable Housing Goal - </b></span>Despite lower than ever provincial housing starts and the ongoing housing crisis being perpetuated by the Ford government, it is great to see the Region of Waterloo surpassing its target for new affordable housing with over 2,707 affordable homes being created as part of the Building Better Futures plan. Learn more:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CityNews - Region Surpasses Affordable Housing Goal:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2024/11/22/region-surpasses-affordable-housing-building-goal-with-2707-homes/?">https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2024/11/22/region-surpasses-affordable-housing-building-goal-with-2707-homes/?</a></div><div><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">4) Housing Starts Continue To Plummet - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Despite Waterloo Region surpassing its affordable housing target, housing starts are down 18% again this year in Ontario compared to Alberta and other provinces where housing starts are up over 34% in some provinces. Learn more and get all the details:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Toronto Star - Doug Ford Wants You To Focus On Bike Lanes And Beer - And Pay No Attention To His Biggest Failure:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/doug-ford-wants-you-to-focus-on-bike-lanes-and-beer-and-pay-no-attention/article_7ae53cfc-ab42-11ef-8c48-9bf98ca1fb85.html">https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/doug-ford-wants-you-to-focus-on-bike-lanes-and-beer-and-pay-no-attention/article_7ae53cfc-ab42-11ef-8c48-9bf98ca1fb85.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Housing Advocates Mike Moffat and Cara Stern weigh in on the dismal failures of the Ford government in stimulating home building in the Missing Middle Podcast on Youtube:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontario Sucks At Building Homes:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP5R0gTRlnQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP5R0gTRlnQ</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">5) City of Waterloo Official Plan Update Final Approval on Monday, Dec 2nd - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">After years of efforts, the updated City of Waterloo Official Plan is coming to Council on Monday night for final approval of Phase 1 and progression onto Phase 2. This excellent Official Plan should be the model for communities across Canada with a focus on a low carbon and green resilient city. This includes zero boundary expansion with all growth within existing boundaries and growing up not out for thousands of new homes and businesses. There is a strong focus on core growth, public transit, active transportation, and liveability for everyone.</span></div><div><br></div><div>There’s lots to like so please speak up and show your support to a municipality doing so many things right (Councillor contact information at the bottom of this e-mail). Also, please encourage other municipalities to learn from and model this excellent Official Plan that will be more important than ever as the Region of Waterloo loses Planning Authority and these lower-tier Official Plans become the only future plans for our communities.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Download the Official Plan starting on Page 37 of the Council Package:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://events.waterloo.ca/meetings/Detail/2024-12-02-1300-Council-Meeting/250fb681-916e-4002-8038-b236014e6564">https://events.waterloo.ca/meetings/Detail/2024-12-02-1300-Council-Meeting/250fb681-916e-4002-8038-b236014e6564</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b>Action Required -</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Speak up, share, and attend on Monday night support this visionary Official Plan that will determine so much in the years ahead.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><br></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">6) ALO Housing Report Card </b>- The Alliance For A Liveable Ontario (ALO) continues to get significant media coverage on their new Provincial Housing Report Card showing that the provincial government's ongoing actions are making our housing crisis worse not better. Learn more at the following link and please share widely with your networks:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.liveableontario.ca/alliance-resources/new-provincial-housing-report-card">https://www.liveableontario.ca/alliance-resources/new-provincial-housing-report-card</a></div><div><br></div></div><div>Here’s some of the recent media coverage:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Toronto Star - Ford Can Fix Crisis, But He’s Making It Worse:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/to-make-ontario-liveable-again-ford-needs-to-fix-the-housing-crisis-so-why-is/article_09370164-a848-11ef-aa1b-fbbbe4cf67ae.html">https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/to-make-ontario-liveable-again-ford-needs-to-fix-the-housing-crisis-so-why-is/article_09370164-a848-11ef-aa1b-fbbbe4cf67ae.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>TVO Today - How Many Ways Can Ontario Fail To Tackle The Housing Crisis?:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.tvo.org/article/opinion-how-many-ways-can-ontario-fail-to-tackle-the-housing-crisis">https://www.tvo.org/article/opinion-how-many-ways-can-ontario-fail-to-tackle-the-housing-crisis</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>City TV News Coverage - New Housing Report Card Give Ford Government A Failing Grade:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/11/18/new-housing-report-card-gives-ford-government-a-failing-grade/">https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/11/18/new-housing-report-card-gives-ford-government-a-failing-grade/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Listen Live to David Crombie on KW CBC Radio with Craig Norris:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-104-the-morning-edition-k-w/clip/16109920-new-report-gives-ontario-failing-grade-comes-housing">https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-104-the-morning-edition-k-w/clip/16109920-new-report-gives-ontario-failing-grade-comes-housing</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div><div><b>Action Required -</b> Please share widely and work with your local media and elected officials to help them understand the needed housing solutions.</div><div><br></div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">7) Reform Gravel Mining Coalition Success! -</b> It has been fantastic to see the groundbreaking aggregate reforms approved in Caledon last month that shows what is possible when citizens and elected officials work together to protect our communities. Watch the excellent webinar at the link below:</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>How Caledon Reformed Gravel Mining - And Your Municipality Can Too:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50K7zWbGMsA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50K7zWbGMsA</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Download the new fact sheet on aggregate supply and demand that shows there is already a 30+ year supply of aggregates approved:</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://assets.nationbuilder.com/reformgravelmining/pages/297/attachments/original/1732672085/SupplyFactSheet.pdf?1732672085">https://assets.nationbuilder.com/reformgravelmining/pages/297/attachments/original/1732672085/SupplyFactSheet.pdf?1732672085</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">8) Cooperate For Canada Pledge -</b> Cooperate for Canada continues to gain momentum with excellent Town Hall meetings and now a new pledge that you can sign online. Check it out 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://actionnetwork.org/forms/cooperate-for-canada-voting-pledge-for-provinces-and-territories">https://actionnetwork.org/forms/cooperate-for-canada-voting-pledge-for-provinces-and-territories</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Help Cooperate For Canada (C4C) grow support for the newly launched Grand River Chapter. With enough momentum this cooperation strategy will see centre left parties win all of the local seats for the Region of Waterloo, Guelph, and Brantford-Brant.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Check out the new polling and projections to guide cooperation - <a href="https://cooperateforcanada.ca/2024/11/17/using-polling-data-to-guide-cooperation/">https://cooperateforcanada.ca/2024/11/17/using-polling-data-to-guide-cooperation/</a></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">If you have any ideas or wish to help please contact info@cooperateforcanada.ca</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>9) Fergus Battery Storage Concerns - </b></span>Kudos to Donna McCaw and others who have been following issues around battery storage facilities being constructed at a rapid pace with little oversight in Ontario. Despite the need for a cleaner, more resilient power grid this certainly isn’t the best use for prime farmland. Learn more and help find better solutions at:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>GuelphToday.com - Concerns Raised Over Fergus Battery Energy Storage System:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.guelphtoday.com/wellington-county/concerns-raised-over-proposed-fergus-battery-energy-storage-system-9860004">https://www.guelphtoday.com/wellington-county/concerns-raised-over-proposed-fergus-battery-energy-storage-system-9860004</a></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Brantford Expositor - Battery Fire At Off Grid Energy Facility:</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-news/battery-fire-in-container-storing-off-grid-energy">https://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-news/battery-fire-in-container-storing-off-grid-energy</a></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"><br></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>10) </b><b>Nuclear Waste Repository Decision -</b></span><b style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px;"> T</b>he Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) has announced that their preferred site for a nuclear waste repository is a location near Ignace, Ontario. This means that the South Bruce/Teeswater site is out of contention but a fight is brewing in Northern Ontario. Kudos to the local sheep, goat, and dairy farmers who lead the fight in South Bruce for what was supposed to be a “done deal”.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Narwhal - Canada Is One Step Closer To Burying Nuclear Waste in Northwestern Ontario:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-nuclear-waste-ignace-decision/">https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-nuclear-waste-ignace-decision/</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Toronto Star - Norther Ontario Site Selected For Nuclear Waste in Northwestern Ontario:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com/business/northern-ontario-site-selected-for-nuclear-waste-underground-repository/article_583e7adc-e6d6-5388-817a-9342635c3d6d.html">https://www.thestar.com/business/northern-ontario-site-selected-for-nuclear-waste-underground-repository/article_583e7adc-e6d6-5388-817a-9342635c3d6d.html</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><br></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">11) Norfolk County Farmland Protection -</b> It’s fantastic to see an innvoative program being considered by Norfolk County that would reward developers with lower development charges for more sustainable building within existing urban areas where existing infrastructure can be utilized instead of destroying farmland for unsustainable sprawl. Learn more:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Hamilton Spectator - Norfolk Mulls Rewarding Developers Who Build In Urban Areas:</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/to-save-farmland-norfolk-mulls-rewarding-developers-who-build-in-urban-areas/article_dc1ffcd7-6464-5a14-bd62-faf7c03b4cee.html">https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/to-save-farmland-norfolk-mulls-rewarding-developers-who-build-in-urban-areas/article_dc1ffcd7-6464-5a14-bd62-faf7c03b4cee.html</a></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">12) Recent Articles -</b> includes trying to build a new McDonald’s restaurant in a floodplain, how Toronto could be a solar energy powerhouse, the Ford government in discussion with Highway 407 operators about options, and creative activists use a guerilla ad campaign to raise awareness about safe injection site closures:</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CBC - Conservation Authority Rejects Proposal To Build McDonald’s On NorthEast London Flood Plain:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/conservation-authority-rejects-proposal-to-build-mcdonald-s-on-northeast-london-flood-plain-1.7393717">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/conservation-authority-rejects-proposal-to-build-mcdonald-s-on-northeast-london-flood-plain-1.7393717</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Canada’s National Observer - Toronto Could Become A Solar Electricity Powerhouse:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/26/news/toronto-solar-electricity-powerhouse">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/26/news/toronto-solar-electricity-powerhouse</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Global News - Ford Government In Conversation With Highway 407 Owners As Buy Back Calls Grow:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10891720/highway-407-buy-back-calls-conversation-ontario-government/">https://globalnews.ca/news/10891720/highway-407-buy-back-calls-conversation-ontario-government/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Trillium - Guerilla Ad Campaign Targets Safe Injection Site Closures:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/guerilla-ad-campaign-targets-removal-safe-injection-site-removal-9870426">https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/health/guerilla-ad-campaign-targets-removal-safe-injection-site-removal-9870426</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Brilliant work by Toronto community activists!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="image--full-block" width="100%" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; overflow: hidden; table-layout: fixed; min-width: 100%; width: 664px;"><tbody style="font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></tr></tbody></table></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">13) Grand River Conservation Authority Concerns - </b>There continues to be much concern about the potential sale of the Niska lands by the GRCA. Kudos to local activists and citizens who are pursuing Freedom Of Information Requests to get all the relevant details. We will discuss this issue further on Friday at 5:30pm as more details become available. </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;"><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">14) Auditor General Reports To Be Released - </b>This coming week the Auditor General will be releasing reports on Ontario’s opioid strategy, the immigrant nominee program, Ontario Place, MZO’s. and other sensitive topics for Doug Ford’s provincial government. </div><div><br></div><div>We’ll have to see what the Auditor General has to say. We are also still optimistic the AG will agree to undertake the Value-For-The-Money Audit that the NDP has requested for the Wilmot Land Assembly.</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><div><div><b><span style="font-size: 14px;">15) Climate Emergency Vigil This Friday! </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">-</span></b><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;"> </span>This Friday, November 29th, Faith Climate Justice Waterloo Region will be hosting a public climate emergency vigil in Waterloo Public Square, free for all to attend. These vigils build on the power of the 16 vigils hosted last fall, and are designed to create sacred spaces to process complex climate emotions together, to reflect, and to share opportunities for action. Spread the word and we hope you will join us. For more information see the poster attached below or visit:</div><div><h3 style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.faithclimatejustice.ca/climate-vigils.html">https://www.faithclimatejustice.ca/clim</a><a href="https://www.faithclimatejustice.ca/climate-vigils.html">ate-vigils.html</a></h3></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><div><div style="font-style: normal;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">16) Greta At COP29 In Baku - </b> A few days ago, Greta Thunberg said:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><div style="font-style: normal;"><br></div><div><i>As the COP29 climate meeting reaches its end, it should not come as a surprise that yet another COP is failing. The current draft is a complete disaster. But even if our expectations are close to non-existent, we must never find ourselves reacting to these continuous betrayals with anything but rage.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>The people in power are again about to agree to a death sentence to the countless people whose lives have been or will be ruined by the climate crisis. The current text is full of false solutions and empty promises. The money from the Global North countries needed to pay back their climate debt is still nowhere to be seen. The host country, Azerbaijan, is a repressive and authoritarian petrostate that has committed ethnic cleansing and genocidal acts towards Armenians. Civil society present at COP29 are being silenced, yet continue fighting and pushing negotiators towards the bare minimum.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>All of this while oppression, inequalities, wars, and genocides all over the world continue to intensify. Those in power are worsening the destabilization and destruction of our life-supporting ecosystems. We are on track to experience the hottest year ever recorded, with global greenhouse gases reaching an all-time high just last year.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>It is clear that the current systems are not working in our favor. The COP processes aren’t just failing us, they are part of a larger system built on injustice and designed to sacrifice current and future generations for the opportunity of a few to keep making unimaginable profits and to continue exploiting planet and people.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>With every negotiation, with every speech made by a world leader, and with every agreement they sign, it becomes clear that it is up to us as a global collective to take the action we so desperately need, and to show where the leadership truly lies. They are not going to do it for us, as this COP29 yet again proves.</i></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">Lets continue to speak up and demand better.</div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>17) Some Good News! </b><b> MPs Unite In Cross-Party Effort Against Greenwashing By Fossil Fuel Companies:</b></span></div></div></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Narwhal - Three MPs Set Politics Aside For A Cross-Party Effort Against Corporate Greenwashing:</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/mps-greenwashing-competition/">https://thenarwhal.ca/mps-greenwashing-competition/</a></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-style: 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 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="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin: 0cm;"><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="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">18) Reminder - Next Meeting</b><b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> -</span></b> Join us today, <span dir="ltr">Friday, November 29th</span> at 5:30pm online at the Zoom link below:</div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; 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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 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 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 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 <span dir="ltr">Friday at 5:30pm EST</span></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: <span dir="ltr">826 4469 5701</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span dir="ltr">Passcode: 713374</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></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, Mike Marcolongo, and Joan Faux on behalf of all our community groups.</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></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 class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; 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-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto"><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 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><b style="font-size: 14px;">-----------------------------------</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#26282a" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b style="font-size: 14px;">A) </b></font></span><b style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Upcoming Events </b><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- Get out and get involved! And keep us posted on your events so we can share them:</span></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;"><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></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Friday, November 29th - 5:30pm -<font color="#26282a"> Next group update meeting on Zoom -</font><font color="#0056d6"> </font></span><font color="#0056d6" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82644695701?pwd=bnRsUGtWSUcrRnFWR21uYVBISG9jZz09">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82644695701?pwd=bnRsUGtWSUcrRnFWR21uYVBISG9jZz09</a></font></b></div></div><div><br></div><div>Friday, November 29th - 8pm - Climate Emergency Vigils - Waterloo Town Square - <a href="https://www.faithclimatejustice.ca/climate-vigils.html">https://www.faithclimatejustice.ca/climate-vigils.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Saturday, November 30th - 12pm - Baden Santa Claus Parade - <a href="http://www.fightforfarmland.com/">www.fightforfarmland.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Sunday, December 1st - 6:00pm - New Hamburg Santa Claus Parade - <a href="http://www.fightforfarmland.com/">www.fightforfarmland.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Monday, December 2nd - 6:30pm - City of Waterloo Official Plan Public Meeting -<b> </b><a href="https://www.engagewr.ca/waterloo-official-plan">https://www.engagewr.ca/waterloo-official-plan</a></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Tuesday, December 3rd - 7pm to 9pm - Why Highway #413 Is Our Road To Ruin - Ontario At A Crossroads - artBar, 37 Quebec Street, Upper Level, downtown Guelph - see poster below</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div>Wednesday, December 11th - 7pm - Fight For Farmland Delegations at Regional of Waterloo Council - <a href="http://www.fightforfarmland.com/">www.fightforfarmland.com</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Monday, December 16th - 7pm - Fight For Farmland Delegations at Wilmot Township Council - <a href="http://www.fightforfarmland.com/">www.fightforfarmland.com</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>--------------------------</b></span></div></div></div></div></div></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 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 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;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>B) 120 Scientists Urge Federal Impact Assessment: </b></span></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></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>