<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 dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Good Day,</div><div><br></div><div>Despite the best efforts of so many, democracy in Ontario is being dismantled before our eyes. Unfortunately, Bill 5 with its lawless Special Economic Zones and removal of the Endangered Species Act, Bill 6 targeting homelessness, Bill 17 preventing essential Green Development Standards, Bill 30 overriding local municipalities and numerous other troubling acts were all rammed through the Legislature on Wednesday without any of the proper hearings, and in many cases illegally before the ERO postings even closed. New webinars have been announced, communities are pushing back, and great climate events have been announced. </div><div><br></div><div>Join us this Friday, June 6th at 5:30pm to discuss the latest:</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="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; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand River Watershed Bill 23 Bi-Weekly Zoom Meeting,</span> Friday June 6th at 5:30pm:</div><div><span style="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; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82644695701?pwd=bnRsUGtWSUcrRnFWR21uYVBISG9jZz09" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; 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://us06web.zoom.us/j/82644695701?pwd=bnRsUGtWSUcrRnFWR21uYVBISG9jZz09</span></a>,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">1) Bill 5 Approved Against Unprecedented Pushback - </b>Despite protests outside Queen’s Park, inside the Legislature, and across Ontario late on Wednesday afternoon the Conservative Government forced Bill 5 through its 3rd Reading in the Legislature with every single opposition MPP from every party voting against it and the Premier not even present for the vote:</div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Record - Doug Ford Pushes Through Rapid Development Law Despite Objections Of First Nations:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <a href="https://www.therecord.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-pushes-through-rapid-development-law-despite-objections-of-first-nations/article_4ec6bb07-0715-5096-bb17-421aae9c6431.html">https://www.therecord.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-pushes-through-rapid-development-law-despite-objections-of-first-nations/article_4ec6bb07-0715-5096-bb17-421aae9c6431.html</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Hamilton Spectator - Doug Ford Pushes Through Rapid Development Law Despite Objections Of First Nations:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thespec.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-pushes-through-rapid-development-law-despite-objections-of-first-nations/article_5a675315-c8ad-5ea8-a28d-95d205a95c21.html">https://www.thespec.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-pushes-through-rapid-development-law-despite-objections-of-first-nations/article_5a675315-c8ad-5ea8-a28d-95d205a95c21.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CBC - Ontario Passes Controversial Mining Law As Doug Ford Warns Against Blockades:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ford-mining-law-1.7552148">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ford-mining-law-1.7552148</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Trillium - Ford Government Passes Contentious “Special Economic Zones” Law:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/energy-and-the-environment/ford-government-passes-contentious-special-economic-zones-law-10761251">https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/energy-and-the-environment/ford-government-passes-contentious-special-economic-zones-law-10761251</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Toronto Star - "Diplomacy Ends Today”: First Nations Warn Of Protests Over Ontario Mining Law:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/diplomacy-ends-today-first-nations-warn-of-protests-over-ontario-mining-law/article_b67a6038-edfd-5457-9f5d-749dd84ef9c2.html">https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/diplomacy-ends-today-first-nations-warn-of-protests-over-ontario-mining-law/article_b67a6038-edfd-5457-9f5d-749dd84ef9c2.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Status -</b> You can check the status of Bills (first, second, third reading, Royal Assent, etc.) and see everything the Ford government rammed through this week so they can start a four month summer break here: <a href="https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/current">https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/current</a></div><div><br></div><div>In fact, after only a six weeks in the Legislature, voting themselves a 35% raise, awarding themselves a very generous new pension, ramming through these bills with no proper process or consultation, the Doug Ford government has now left for a special extended 12 week summer break - not resuming in the Legislature until October 20th. So much for all hands on deck and working around the clock on the tariff threat that was so much bluster and bravado….</div><div><br></div><div>Premier Doug Ford even seems to be taunting First Nations who have strongly opposed Bill 5:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Global News - Ontario Voted “In Favour Of Idle No More 2” By Passing Mining Law, First Nations Say:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/11212505/bill-5-final-stages-blockade-ford-warning/">https://globalnews.ca/news/11212505/bill-5-final-stages-blockade-ford-warning/</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ford says blockades wouldn’t be very wise as government moves to pass Bill 5.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Trillium - I’d Be Very Disappointed If Bill 5 Leads To Blockades: Premier Ford:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/indigenous-rural-and-northern-affairs/id-be-very-disappointed-if-bill-5-leads-to-blockades-premier-ford-10753695">https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/indigenous-rural-and-northern-affairs/id-be-very-disappointed-if-bill-5-leads-to-blockades-premier-ford-10753695</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>First Nations are promising blockades, protests, and are refusing to meet with elected officials, suggesting action will be taken to shut down the Ring of Fire and prevent mining companies from accessing key lands - the exact opposite of speeding up approvals and providing certainty.</div></div><div><br></div><div>There is also a campaign to force Minister Greg Rickford to resign - <a href="https://win.newmode.net/ontarionewdemocraticparty/resign">https://win.newmode.net/ontarionewdemocraticparty/resign</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Recent Media Coverage - </b>There has been excellent media coverage of all of the efforts to block this Bill that will <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">fast track development, bypass environmental protections, create law-free economic zones, ignore archeology, and violate Indigenous rights:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Excellent overview from the Narwhal:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Narwhal - Broken Trust And Bill 5: First Nations Rally Against Doug Ford’s Controversial Mining Bill:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill-5-indigenous-backlash/">https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill-5-indigenous-backlash/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CBC TV - Liberals Table 4,000 Amendments To Stall Controversial Bill 5:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6784230">https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6784230</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CityNews - Ontario To Limit Debate On Controversial Bill 5 Among Other Legislation:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/06/02/ontario-bill-5-legislation-doug-ford/?">https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/06/02/ontario-bill-5-legislation-doug-ford/?</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Trillium - Unleashing A Reckoning: Ford Government Set To Pass Bill 5:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/indigenous-rural-and-northern-affairs/unleashing-a-reckoning-ford-government-set-to-pass-bill-5-10748400">https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/indigenous-rural-and-northern-affairs/unleashing-a-reckoning-ford-government-set-to-pass-bill-5-10748400</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CHCH Television News - Hundreds Of First Nations Members Protest Bill At Queens Park:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.chch.com/chch-news/hundreds-of-first-nations-members-protest-ontario-mining-bill-at-queens-park/">https://www.chch.com/chch-news/hundreds-of-first-nations-members-protest-ontario-mining-bill-at-queens-park/</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Global News - First Nations Threaten Highway Blockages Over Ford Government’s Bill 5:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/11208156/first-nations-threaten-highway-blockages-over-ford-governments-bill-5/">https://globalnews.ca/news/11208156/first-nations-threaten-highway-blockages-over-ford-governments-bill-5/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Earlier this week NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa was escorted out of Legislature for stating that Bill 5 does not respect First Nation rights: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DKZzdnIuzAX/">https://www.instagram.com/p/DKZzdnIuzAX/</a></div><div><div><br></div><div>Here’s his media interviews and comments: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKZ-TOkoypN/">https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKZ-TOkoypN/</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Under The Northern Sky - And It Burns, Burns, Burns That Ring Of Fire:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.netnewsledger.com/2025/06/03/under-the-northern-sky-and-it-burns-burns-burns-that-ring-of-fire/">https://www.netnewsledger.com/2025/06/03/under-the-northern-sky-and-it-burns-burns-burns-that-ring-of-fire/</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><b>Impressive Joint Statement -</b> In an impressive partnership it is fantastic to see unions, legal organizations, First Nations, Engineers and even Zoologists all working together. Here’s a joint statement from CUPE (Ontario), Ecojustice, Friends of Attawapiskat River, Neskantaga First Nation, Ontario Nature, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, the Toronto Zoo, and the Wildlands League:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/media-statement-bill-5-must-be-withdrawn-811388229.html">https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/media-statement-bill-5-must-be-withdrawn-811388229.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Here’s also a great media statement from Ontario Nature regarding the passing of Bill 5 and how the work to overturn it begins today:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://ontarionature.org/news-release/the-hard-work-to-overturn-bill-5-starts-today/">https://ontarionature.org/news-release/the-hard-work-to-overturn-bill-5-starts-today/</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Background Info -</b> Mike Schreiner, Green Party Leader did a great explainer video on Bill 5 this week:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAAk0bJT3xY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAAk0bJT3xY</a></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><b>Analysis -</b> There’s been some great Op-Ed articles including this one from Mark Winfield that ran in numerous newspapers:</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Hamilton Spectator - Is Ford Mirroring Trump To "Protect" Ontario?:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://thespec.pressreader.com/article/281719800522219">https://thespec.pressreader.com/article/281719800522219</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Record - Ontario’s Bill 5: Has Authoritarian Populism Come To Canada?:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/opinion/contributors/ontarios-bill-5-has-authoritarian-populism-come-to-canada/article_8c51eb04-8191-5754-96a2-7ab7a4d2a51c.html">https://www.therecord.com/opinion/contributors/ontarios-bill-5-has-authoritarian-populism-come-to-canada/article_8c51eb04-8191-5754-96a2-7ab7a4d2a51c.html</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“Bill 5’s implicit message is that there is no limit to how low the province might go in terms of health, safety, and environmental standards to attract investment.”</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>“a government that seems to have no real idea on how to deal with the challenges posed by Trump and a rapidly changing world…”</div><div><br></div></div><div>Doug Ford committed on Thursday to make Ontario the most cost effective and compelling place for business in the entire G7. Here’s a first hand example of the impunity industrial companies have come to expect and will demand from Doug Ford in a Special Economic Zone -<b> the issues that the citizens of Memphis, Tennessee are facing from another Elon Musk company are horrifying:</b></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bluesky Post and YouTube Video by John Bowker:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/johnbowker.bsky.social/post/3lqub2gztjs2q">https://bsky.app/profile/johnbowker.bsky.social/post/3lqub2gztjs2q</a></div><div><br></div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Protests/Rally’s - </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There have been large protests including hundreds of people at Kitchener City Hall this past weekend. Kudos to everyone who attended with so many great signs. Please plan to join rallies still planned for the days ahead. Saturday’s Georgetown Rally will have Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner and our own Mike Marcolongo speaking at it and hundreds of people are anticipated:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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>Georgetown - Saturday, June 7th 1:00pm - Halton Hills Climate Action - Dominion Gardens Park, 118 Guelph Street, Georgetown - </span><a href="https://app.gvote.ca/rsvp/eve_bf38783b0">https://app.gvote.ca/rsvp/eve_bf38783b0</a></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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>Newmarket - Monday, June 9th - MPP Dawn Gallagher’s Office - </span><a href="https://environmentaldefence.ca/stop-bill-5/">https://environmentaldefence.ca/stop-bill-5/</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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>Toronto - Thursday, June 12th - Ontario Nature Bill 5 Explained - Talks & Insights - </span><a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/ontarionature/1704020" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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.tickettailor.com/events/ontarionature/1704020</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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></a></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Learn more about these all of these events and new events posted daily at: </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1q1L-4wcwReSOgSefgk5ci5J_35RMEg0&usp=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1q1L-4wcwReSOgSefgk5ci5J_35RMEg0&usp=sharing</span></a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><b>Keep Calling and Writing -</b> Environmental Defence has a new one-click letter:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>New Environmental Defence Letter- Stop the Bill 5 Power Grab:</div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/172395/action/1">https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/172395/action/1</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Also in Appendix B) below is the letter regarding the insufficient amendments the government attempted signed by groups across Ontario. Read to learn more.</div></div><div><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or text Premier Ford’s cell phone directly to tell him how wrong Bill 5 is - please be polite, he has been returning calls including several this past week - (647) 612-3673</span></div><div><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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;"><br></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Or use Environmental Defence’s automatic phone calling tool to reach your local elected officials -</span><a href="https://win.newmode.net/environmentaldefencecanada/stopbill5" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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://win.newmode.net/environmentaldefencecanada/stopbill5</span></a></div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 9pt; 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;">What You Can Do - Council Motions - </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">More municipal councils have passed Motions against Bill 5 with several additional communities joining Orangeville, Caledon, Shelburne, Mono, Kingston, City of Toronto, Chatham-Kent, Grey Highlands, Lambton, and numerous other Ontario communities. Get your local Councillors to speak up as well. A copy of the Orangeville motion that was approved unanimously is attached in Appendix C) along with an updated version from Guelph in Appendix D) that includes some great amendments from other communities. Ensure your Council speaks up as well!.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 9pt; 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;">Required Action - </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The fight against Bill 5 will continue as we need to continue to speak up against this horrifying omnibus bill and ensure our democracy, environment, clean energy, agriculture, and communities aren’t destroyed by the misguided development efforts of the provincial government under the guise of responding to Trump tariffs. </span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-06f58459-7fff-f39d-29fd-a56afe6644e0"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; 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;">2) Bill 17 Protect Ontario By Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 - </span><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"> The Ford government did time allocation with this Bill, so it skipped Committee hearings and any opportunity for comment or consultation. Third reading and vote took place on June 4 (and passed along with many other Bills rammed through before the summer recess on Wednesday). However, the ERO postings for comments does not close until June 26th and it is important that we get comments and concerns posted to be part of the public record on this gift to developers that will set climate efforts back at least 15 years. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Bill 17 was so rushed and poorly written that most municipalities haven’t even been able to submit comments. First Nations, most municipalities, ERO comments, and public concerns have been ignored and this is particularly troubling for places like Toronto who’s very strong Green Development Standards that have been in place for years and could see a significant rollback when we need more climate action and resiliency with better buildings - not less and worse.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">This Bill is the exact opposite for what we need to address climate change and </span></font><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">will gut the protections that municipalities can include in their Official Plans, limit the studies they can request for development applications, as well as impose new limits on development charges, prohibit Green Development Standards, expand MMAH powers - enabling new MZO’s that allow provincial laws to be broken, allow risky rural water and wastewater systems, and opens the door to the privatization of water and wastewater utilities.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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;">This bill could have far-reaching impacts in Waterloo Region where so many unique protections, features, and concepts were integral to Official Plans regionally and throughout our municipalities. It could also pose a huge threat to the groundwater and water protections we rely on and the elimination of many Green Development Standards could severely impact the Waterloo High Performance Development Standards that have been under development for years and heading for approval later this year.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Backgrounders on Bill 17 - </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Here are good overviews of Bill 17 from Environmental Defence, Canadian Architect, BLG, and Aird Berlis:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Environmental Defence Press Release - Bill 17 Ignores The Real Barriers To Housing While Scapegoating Green Standards:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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><a href="https://environmentaldefence.ca/2025/05/13/bill-17-ignores-the-real-barriers-to-housing-while-scapegoating-green-standards/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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://environmentaldefence.ca/2025/05/13/bill-17-ignores-the-real-barriers-to-housing-while-scapegoating-green-standards/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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="font-size: 9pt; 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;">BLG - Ontario Introduces Bill 17 To Build Homes, Communities and Transit Faster:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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><a href="https://www.blg.com/en/insights/2025/05/ontario-introduces-bill-17-to-build-faster-homes-communities-and-transit-infrastructure" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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.blg.com/en/insights/2025/05/ontario-introduces-bill-17-to-build-faster-homes-communities-and-transit-infrastructure</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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="font-size: 9pt; 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><span style="font-size: 9pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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;">If passed, Bill 17 will impact virtually every stage of the land development process – from the submission of planning applications to calculation of development charges and implementation of construction standards. It also proposes to expand the powers of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Minister of Infrastructure and Minister of Transportation in various land development matters, including major transit projects funded by the Province.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Canadian Architect - New Ontario Bills Gut Environmental Protections, Eliminate Green Building Bylaws:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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><a href="https://www.canadianarchitect.com/new-ontario-bills-gut-environmental-protections-eliminate-green-building-bylaws/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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.canadianarchitect.com/new-ontario-bills-gut-environmental-protections-eliminate-green-building-bylaws/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Aird Berlis - Bill 17 And The Push To Build: How Ontario Plans To Speed Up Development:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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><a href="https://www.airdberlis.com/insights/publications/publication/bill-17-and-the-push-to-build--how-ontario-plans-to-speed-up-development" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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.airdberlis.com/insights/publications/publication/bill-17-and-the-push-to-build--how-ontario-plans-to-speed-up-development</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Recent Media Reports:</span></p><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>The Record - Ford Government Moves To Override Cities On Green Building Standards:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/news/canada/ford-government-moves-to-override-cities-on-green-building-standards/article_0150da10-108c-59c3-aa93-dd2990e85f2d.html">https://www.therecord.com/news/canada/ford-government-moves-to-override-cities-on-green-building-standards/article_0150da10-108c-59c3-aa93-dd2990e85f2d.html</a></div><div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Canada’s National Observer - Ford Government Bulldozes Green Building Standards With New Legislation:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/04/news/ontario-bill-17-green-building-standards-cities">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/04/news/ontario-bill-17-green-building-standards-cities</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Energy Mix - Ontario Legislation Could Override Local Green Standards, Stall Climate Progress:</span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><a href="https://www.theenergymix.com/ontario-legislation-could-override-local-green-standards-stall-climate-progress/">https://www.theenergymix.com/ontario-legislation-could-override-local-green-standards-stall-climate-progress/</a></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Toronto Environmental Alliance - Premier Ford Is Fast-Tracking Another Gift For Developers: Bill 17:</span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><a href="https://www.torontoenvironment.org/premier_ford_is_fast_tracking_another_gift_for_developers_bill_17">https://www.torontoenvironment.org/premier_ford_is_fast_tracking_another_gift_for_developers_bill_17</a></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Stand.earth - Ontario’s Bill 17: “A Giant Gift To Big Developers And Enbridge Gas”:</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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><a href="https://stand.earth/press-releases/ontario-green-building-legislation-2025/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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://stand.earth/press-releases/ontario-green-building-legislation-2025/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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="font-size: 9pt; 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;">The Pointer - Environmental Standards Gutted As Housing Starts Stall: Critics Warn New Housing Bill Opens Door To Greenbelt Development:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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><a href="https://thepointer.com/article/2025-05-15/environmental-standards-gutted-as-housing-starts-stall-critics-warn-ford-s-new-housing-bill-opens-door-to-greenbelt-development" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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://thepointer.com/article/2025-05-15/environmental-standards-gutted-as-housing-starts-stall-critics-warn-ford-s-new-housing-bill-opens-door-to-greenbelt-development</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Canada’s National Observer - Building Clean Does Not Need To Break The Bank:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/27/opinion/building-homes-emissions-clean-construction" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/27/opinion/building-homes-emissions-clean-construction</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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;">What You Can Do - Write -</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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;"> Send a one-click letter:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Stand.earth - 1 Click Letter to Leave Our Cities Alone:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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><a href="https://act.stand.earth/page/83437/action/1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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://act.stand.earth/page/83437/action/1</span></a></p><div><span><br></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Atmospheric Fund (TAF) - Bill 17 Sign-On Letter:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://taf.ca/save-green-development-standards/">https://taf.ca/save-green-development-standards/</a></div></div><div><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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;">What You Can Do - ERO - </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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;">Speak Up On the Environmental Registry of Ontario to ensure concerns are part of the public record by June 26th at:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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="font-size: 9pt; 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;">ERO Posting - Regulate Complete Application Requirements </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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><a href="https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0462" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0462</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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="font-size: 9pt; 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;">ERO Posting- Planning Act and City of Toronto Act Changes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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><a href="https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0461" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; 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://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0461</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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;">Action Required - </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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;">Speak up to preserve essential Official Plans, environmental protection concepts such as the Countryside Line, and help ensure Development Charges actually cover the costs of new development. Ensure that municipalities can implement the Green Development Standards and the better buildings we need to combat Climate Change.</span></p></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">3) Bill 30, Working For Workers Seven Act, 2025 & Bill 5, 17. 30 Concerns </b><b>- </b>The Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) is raising concerns about the Ford government using tariff threats to repeatedly change laws so that Ministers can override laws and acts at will with little notice or recourse. This is very much against democracy, the greater public good, and the best public interest.</div><div><br></div><div>AMO is expressing concern about exemptions from municipal planning processes, shifting authority from local governments to private entities without robust accountability or proper frameworks, giving exemptions from local bylaws, taxes, development charges and other local requirements with no clear purpose or rationale.</div><div><br></div><div>The provincial government has now made it so that four separate Ministers can override municipal land use planning and other authorities raises significant concerns. Specifically:</div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Bill 5 allows Special Economic Zones (SEZ’s) to create lawless areas overriding the Planning Act, the Municipal Act, and much more,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Bill 17 allows MZO’s to override the Planning Act,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Bill 30 allows the Minister of Labour, Immigration, Skills, and Training to override the Planning Act and the Municipal Act.</div><div><br></div><div>The government needs to be accountable, with proper process and the threat of tariffs cannot be used to justify any and all proposals to override municipal and provincial laws. Learn more at:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.amo.on.ca/policy/finance-infrastructure-and-economy/province-introduces-bill-30">https://www.amo.on.ca/policy/finance-infrastructure-and-economy/province-introduces-bill-30</a> </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div><br></div></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-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 14px;">4) Wilmot Mega-Industrial Land Assembly </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">-</span></b> It was fantastic to see Susan Koswan’s article in The Record this week speaking to the importance of local food, calling out the Wilmot mega-industrial land assembly, and advocating for a Foodbelt:</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Record - We Need To Build A Sustainable Canadian Food System:</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/opinion/columnists/we-need-to-build-a-sustainable-canadian-food-system/article_3852bddb-1f22-5f01-b706-3e49b2df49b1.html">https://www.therecord.com/opinion/columnists/we-need-to-build-a-sustainable-canadian-food-system/article_3852bddb-1f22-5f01-b706-3e49b2df49b1.html</a></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">Kudos to the Green Party for proposing the Food Belt. Here’s a one-click letter you can sign to help support it and protect Ontario farms as we lose more than 319 acres of farmland to development every day in Ontario:</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://gpo.ca/action_campaign/protect-ontario-farms/">https://gpo.ca/action_campaign/protect-ontario-farms/</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>WilmotCAN Strategic Planning Meeting - </b>The next WilmotCAN Strategic Planning Meeting will be this coming Friday, June 13th at 1:00pm on John Jordan’s farm. Help plan, develop, and implement our next steps and efforts to stop this absurd mega-industrial development in a beautiful rural Wilmot setting - the long term forecast is calling for beautiful summer weather on Friday!</div><div><br></div><div>This next planning session will be focussed on growth, rural protections, and how to achieve a sustainable future:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>WilmotCAN Planning Meeting - John Jordan’s Farm - Friday June 13th from 1pm to 4pm, 2791 Bleams Road, New Hamburg</div><div><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">Area landowners remain resolute in their commitment to preserve farmland and groups across the region are speaking up to show that our communities are more unwilling than ever. Council delegations, community events, online communications, a legal challenge, investigations, and protests will continue with increased vigour as the additional threats to Wilmot from Bill 5 and Bill 17 become apparent.</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Upcoming Council Meetings -</b> Please reach out to <a href="mailto:info@wilmotcan.com">info@wilmotcan.com</a> if you might be able to delegate at the next Wilmot and Regional Council meetings later in June. We need people to tell Councillors about their concerns and the need for a better future plan.</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><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;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Action Required -</b> Continue to speak up to d</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">emand the Region of Waterloo give up its farm destroying mega-industrial fiasco that is already costing taxpayers dearly. It’s more important than ever to dust off and to keep up the Fight For Farmland signs and voice your concerns to elected officials.</span></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; 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;">5) New OGA Webinar - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">The Ontario Greenbelt Alliance and Municipal Leaders for Stronger Communities have announced a new webinar on how to protect food and water security in the midst of so many major legislative changes in Ontario and growing federal concern about Canadian sovereignty. Learn from housing & planning expert Victor Doyle, Ontario Nature Campaign Co-ordinator Sarah Hasenack, and OFA Director Mark Reusser.</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;">Please share this opportunity with local elected officials and municipal staff as we need leadership that understands how to support resilient, thriving communities and this is a great opportunity for them to get questions answered by experts.</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;">Details are as follows:</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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Date/Time: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm</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>Register Online In Advance At: </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Q30FiflQLmmoUQKe9h7bw#/registration">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Q30FiflQLmmoUQKe9h7bw#/registration</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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b>Action Required - </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sign up, share, and learn what we need to do in the months ahead. More details below in the poster in Appendix H).</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-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) Strong Mayor Powers Pushback - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">It has been great to see more communities push back and reject undemocratic Strong Mayor Powers handed out to 169 additional municipalities recently by Premier Doug Ford. Encourage your municipality to reject Strong Mayor Powers too:</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-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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Record - Ontario Councillors Push Back As Strong Mayor Powers Reach Small Towns:</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://www.therecord.com/business/crazy-idea-ontario-councillors-push-back-as-strong-mayor-powers-reach-small-towns/article_828e93d9-6813-5e91-bedf-5dba1c153c90.html">https://www.therecord.com/business/crazy-idea-ontario-councillors-push-back-as-strong-mayor-powers-reach-small-towns/article_828e93d9-6813-5e91-bedf-5dba1c153c90.html</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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CityNews - <a href="https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/06/01/ontario-councillors-push-back-strong-mayor-powers/?">https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/06/01/ontario-councillors-push-back-strong-mayor-powers/?</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;"><div><b>Action Required - </b>Speak up and take action for the better governance we need.</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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">7) Recent Articles - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Include Energy Star impacts in Canada, new battery storage resilience, the need to address plastic pollution, and how the City of Ottawa is already struggling with the unsustainable costs of urban sprawl:</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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>CBC - The US Plans To Cut Energy Star. Could That Raise Costs For Canadians?:</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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/energy-star-canada-1.7540205">https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/energy-star-canada-1.7540205</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;"><div><br></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ontario IESO - Considerable Amount Of Battery Storage Will Help Meet Canadian Province’s Rising Energy Demands:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.energy-storage.news/ontario-ieso-considerable-amount-of-battery-storage-will-help-meet-canadian-provinces-rising-energy-demand/">https://www.energy-storage.news/ontario-ieso-considerable-amount-of-battery-storage-will-help-meet-canadian-provinces-rising-energy-demand/</a></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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Record - Tackling Plastic Pollution Is Good For The Environment And The Economy:</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://www.therecord.com/opinion/contributors/tackling-plastic-pollution-is-good-for-the-environment-and-the-economy/article_332ded5e-4a5f-586d-a68e-2151226117ea.html">https://www.therecord.com/opinion/contributors/tackling-plastic-pollution-is-good-for-the-environment-and-the-economy/article_332ded5e-4a5f-586d-a68e-2151226117ea.html</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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CBC - City Of Ottawa To Take On Debt To Cover Billions Of Dollars Of Infrastructure Repairs:</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://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-debt-water-1.7551444">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-debt-water-1.7551444</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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">8) More Trumpian Tactics From The Ford Government - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Bill 6 and Bill 33 which were also rammed through the Legislature without proper hearings or consultations this week are also causing concerns:</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-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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Trillium - Ford Government Passes Anti-Encampment Bill 6 With Some Liberal Support:</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://www.thetrillium.ca/news/housing/ford-government-passes-anti-encampment-bill-with-some-liberal-support-10760272">https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/housing/ford-government-passes-anti-encampment-bill-with-some-liberal-support-10760272</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;"><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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Globe and Mail - Ontario Bill 33 Undermines University Autonomy And Access To Education:</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://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/education/article-ontario-bill-33-merit-university-admission-students/">https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/education/article-ontario-bill-33-merit-university-admission-students/</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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </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-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;">9) We Organize With Busy Lives - How To Build Community - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Basic Income Waterloo Region’s Youth Engagement Committee invites you to rethink how political action can fit into a busy lifestyle. Join former Green Party MP Mike Morrice as he moderates a panel of socially and politically engaged young adults (18 to 40 years old). Reject cynicism, embrace empowerment, and help create a more hopeful future:</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-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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Date/Time: Wednesday, June 18th from 6:30pm to 8:00pm</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>Register Online: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/we-organize-with-busy-lives-a-political-panel-for-young-adults-tickets-1311575199729">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/we-organize-with-busy-lives-a-political-panel-for-young-adults-tickets-1311575199729</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;">More details in poster below in Appendix G).</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;">10) No Free Ride For Fossil Fuels Act - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Speak up and support this provincial Green Party Act to ensure that Enbridge pays the same municipal rents and fees that other utilities pay and that they aren’t using public lands for free while other utilities pay. Send a letter using this easy form:</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-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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://gpo.ca/action_campaign/make-enbridge-pay/">https://gpo.ca/action_campaign/make-enbridge-pay/</a></div><div><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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b>Action Required - </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Speak up, support this bill, make Enbridge pay their fair share, and help to reduce fossil fuels in our communities.</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-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;">11) Demand Canada Take Bold Climate Leadership - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Stand.earth has launched a new campaign to encourage Prime Minister Mark Carney to:</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-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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- build a resilient, renewable-powered grid from coast to coast,</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>- expand public transit and clean transportation,</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>- end all fossil fuel subsidies,</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>- hold Big Oil accountable with a strong emissions cap,</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>- invest in millions of affordable green homes,</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>- protect old-growth forests and endangered species,</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>- center indigenous rights and leadership every step of the way.</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;">Sign their petition and add your name at: <a href="https://act.stand.earth/page/83920/petition/1">https://act.stand.earth/page/83920/petition/1</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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">12) Signed, Seared, and Delivered Postcard Campaign -</b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"> It’s very timely as our communities are blanketed in wildfire smoke so thick that it is blocking out the sun that the brilliant folks at the Climate Emergency Unit have created a series of very creative and alarming postcards of favourite places on fire based on traditional tourist destination designs. Check it out and send some elected officials postcards to demand a better future at:</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-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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.signedseareddelivered.com/">https://www.signedseareddelivered.com/</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;">You can also see examples and learn more in Appendix G) 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-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;">LeadNow has also launched an advertising fundraising campaign to target Big Oil - learn more at: <a href="https://leadnow.donorsupport.co/page/bigoil-fr-june">https://leadnow.donorsupport.co/page/bigoil-fr-june</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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">13) Greenbelt Scandal Goes Local - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Save The Oak Ridges Moraine (STORM) is raising alarm about Strong Mayor Powers and new legislation changes being used to override Greenbelt protections to allow development and additional residential units on Greenbelt protected lands - in particular in places such as Stoufville where the Mayor and Council has repeatedly sought Greenbelt development.</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-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;">Bill 17 will help to fast-track this sort of concerning development while eliminating public notice, consultation, and environmental review.</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;">Learn more at: <a href="https://www.stormcoalition.com/post/the-greenbelt-scandal-was-never-over-it-just-went-local">https://www.stormcoalition.com/post/the-greenbelt-scandal-was-never-over-it-just-went-local</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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">14) Mount Nemo Quarry OLT Hearing - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">The Reform Gravel Coalition is asking for people to help fight and show support against the Mount Nemo mega-quarry expansion that threatens the Greenbelt and Niagara Escarpment by helping to pack the virtual hearing room in the upcoming Ontario Land Tribunal Hearings. Join anytime you can to show your presence and let them know citizens are watching:</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-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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dates: Air Quality <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Thursday, June 5th anytime from 10am to 4:30pm</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>- Friday, June 6th anytime from 10am to 4:30pm</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>- Monday, June 8th anytime from 10am to 4:30pm</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>- Tuesday, June 9th anytime from 10am to 4:30pm</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>Blasting Dates <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Wednesday, June 10th anytime from 10am to 4:30pm</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>- Thursday, June 11th anytime from 10am to 4:30pm</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></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>Website Address: <a href="https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/692665589">https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/692665589</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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>15) Sebringville Development Concerns -</b></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"> It’s fantastic to see the ongoing media attention and incredible efforts of the citizens of the small hamlet of Sebringville just West of Stratford as they fight to prevent their community from being overwhelmed by totally inappropriate large-scale urban development far from needed infrastructure and urban services. Read the latest at:</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-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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>StratfordToday.ca - Get Concerned Perth County Questions Township Over EA Process:</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://www.stratfordtoday.ca/local-news/get-concerned-perth-county-questions-perth-south-over-ea-process-10730536">https://www.stratfordtoday.ca/local-news/get-concerned-perth-county-questions-perth-south-over-ea-process-10730536</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;">Join their upcoming Community BBQ on Wednesday, June 11th from 5pm to 7pm at the Sebringville Community Centre and check out their excellent Facebook page at:</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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560878871843">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560878871843</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;">Informed communities are the foundation of democracy. Keep speaking up!</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;">16) One Million Neighbours Results - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">After more than a year of planning, research, discussions, and community meetings the One Million Neighbours Vision Document is now released! Check it out and help to see how Waterloo Region can sustainably and successfully grow to over 1 million residents in the decades ahead:</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-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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://onemillionneighbours.ca/vision/">https://onemillionneighbours.ca/vision/</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;">Next steps include building a dashboard to track measurable outcomes, meeting with governments/school boards/neighbourhood associations to help align budgets and priorities, as well as creating opportunities for non-profit organizations to collaborate.</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;">17) Renewables Not Nuclear - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">The Ontario Clean Air Alliance has launched a great campaign to encourage Doug Ford to install low-cost wind and solar energy rather than build the world’s largest nuclear plant on the shores of Lake Ontario. Their latest report finds that clean, renewable sources would provide the same amount of electricity while saving a staggering $6.2 to $19.3 billion dollars per year.</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-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;">Ask Doug Ford and Energy Minister Stephen Lecce to get work on wind and solar rather than waste time and massive amounts of money on another expensive, risky, giant nuclear plant that will take decades to build and keep us tied to fossil gas plants in the meantime:</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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.cleanairalliance.org/no-nuclear-yes-solar-wind/">https://www.cleanairalliance.org/no-nuclear-yes-solar-wind/</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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b>Action Required -</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Speak up now for the immediate, affordable clean energy we need now and avoid future nuclear fiascos.</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-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;"><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">18) REEP 25th Anniversary Event - </b>Join the great folks at Residential Energy Efficiency Program (REEP) 25th Anniversary Celebration for an inspiring evening of connection, reflection, and vision. Enjoy live music, great food and celebrate successes:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Date/Time: Thursday, July 17th from 5pm to 7pm</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Location: Victoria Park Pavilion, Kitchener</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Purchase Tickets At: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/reep-green-solutions-25th-anniversary-celebration-tickets-1329969166579">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/reep-green-solutions-25th-anniversary-celebration-tickets-1329969166579</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">19) Ken Seiling Museum Hosts Climate Quest For Kids -</b> A new exhibition to engage youth in climate action will be at the Waterloo Region Ken Seiling Museum this summer. There will be a special event day on July 5th from 10:30am to 4pm if your group would like to get involved. Reach out to Hadeel Biram to learn more: <a href="mailto:hbiram@regionalofwaterloo.ca">hbiram@regionalofwaterloo.ca</a> or check out:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://climate.sciencenorth.ca/en/take-tour">https://climate.sciencenorth.ca/en/take-tour</a></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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">20) Other Articles - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Includes the need for better national building code energy requirements, what Canada must do to become an energy superpower, Schwartzenegger tells environmentalists to stop whining and get to work, Niagara Falls prepares to take in thousands of fire evacuees, and building trust with First Nations:</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-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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>SaskToday.ca - Sustainable Buildings Canada Promotes National Energy Codes:</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://www.sasktoday.ca/provincial-news/sustainable-buildings-canada-promotes-national-energy-codes-10701428">https://www.sasktoday.ca/provincial-news/sustainable-buildings-canada-promotes-national-energy-codes-10701428</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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Toronto Star - Four Lessons Canada Must Learn To Become An Energy Superpower:</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://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/four-lessons-canada-must-learn-to-become-an-energy-superpower/article_61f1b7f1-36ac-44a7-8179-a96f4ed067e3.html">https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/four-lessons-canada-must-learn-to-become-an-energy-superpower/article_61f1b7f1-36ac-44a7-8179-a96f4ed067e3.html</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 class="Apple-interchange-newline"></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>Canada’s National Observer - Schwarzenegger Urges Environmentalists Dismayed By Trump To Stop Whining And Get To Work:</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://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/03/news/schwarzenegger-urges-environmentalists-dismayed-trump-stop-whining-get-work">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/03/news/schwarzenegger-urges-environmentalists-dismayed-trump-stop-whining-get-work</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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CBC News - Fleeing Wildfires, Hundreds From Manitoba First Nations Settle Into Niagara Falls Hotels:</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://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/wildfire-evacuees-come-to-niagara-falls-1.7550324">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/wildfire-evacuees-come-to-niagara-falls-1.7550324</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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Global News - Federal Minister Says His Comments On Indigenous Consultation Eroded Trust:</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://globalnews.ca/news/11212479/indigenous-consultation-major-projects-minister-apologizes/">https://globalnews.ca/news/11212479/indigenous-consultation-major-projects-minister-apologizes/</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; 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font-weight: normal;"> The Atmospheric Fund (TAF) shows how better Canadian Appliance efficiency will save Canadians billions of dollars while creating a cleaner, more efficient nation:</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-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="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-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>TAF - Canada Sprints Past The US On Appliance Efficiency:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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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 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-width: 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-width: 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-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Join Zoom Meeting</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: 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-width: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: 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-width: 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><div><br></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 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><font color="#26282a" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b style="font-size: 14px;">A) </b></font><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;">- Get out and get involved! And keep us posted on your events so we can share them: </span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Ongoing and continually announced - new rallies and protests for Bill 5 - </span><a href="https://environmentaldefence.ca/stop-bill-5/">https://environmentaldefence.ca/stop-bill-5/</a> </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 style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><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 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="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 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; 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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 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="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Friday, June 6th - 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></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></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="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Saturday, June 7th - 1:00pm - Georgetown Bill 5 Protest - Halton Hills Climate Action - </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 9pt; 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><a href="https://app.gvote.ca/rsvp/eve_bf38783b0">https://app.gvote.ca/rsvp/eve_bf38783b0</a></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Wednesday, June 11th - 5:00pm to 7:00pm - Get Concerned Perth County Sebringville Community BBQ - Sebringville Community Centre - </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560878871843">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560878871843</a></div><div><br></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday, June 12th - Ontario Nature Bill 5 Explained - Talks & Insights - </span><a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/ontarionature/1704020" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 9pt; 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-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.tickettailor.com/events/ontarionature/1704020</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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></a></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><br></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">Friday, June 13th - 2:30pm - Waterloo Region All-Council Meeting - Regional Council Chambers</div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><br></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">Friday, June 13th - 1:00pm - WilmotCAN Strategic Planning Meeting - www.wilmotcan.com</div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><br></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">Wednesday, June 18th - 6:30pm to 8:00pm - Basic Income Youth Empowerment Webinar - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/we-organize-with-busy-lives-a-political-panel-for-young-adults-tickets-1311575199729?">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/we-organize-with-busy-lives-a-political-panel-for-young-adults-tickets-1311575199729?</a></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><br></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">Thursday, June 19th, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm - Ontario Greenbelt Alliance Webinar - <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Q30FiflQLmmoUQKe9h7bw#/registration">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Q30FiflQLmmoUQKe9h7bw#/registration</a></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><div><br></div></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">Thursday, July 17th from 5pm to 7pm, REEP 25th Anniversary - Victoria Park Pavilion, Kitchener - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/reep-green-solutions-25th-anniversary-celebration-tickets-1329969166579">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/reep-green-solutions-25th-anniversary-celebration-tickets-1329969166579</a></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><br></div></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">-----------------------------------</b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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