<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 dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Good Day,</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Despite the Ford government starting an extra-long summer recess, there's a lot of news this week as several new campaigns are launched against Bill 5, Bill 17, and other bills rammed through the legislature on June 4th, it appears that Metrolinx has dramatically cut back GO Train expansion plans including cancelling 2 Way, All Day GO Trains to Kitchener, troubling cuts are announced to significantly weaken Blue Box recycling programs, Ontario housing starts continue fall in Doug Ford's housing disaster, and provincial government cuts to firefighting has caused evacuations, widespread destruction, and smoke impacting large swaths of Canada and the US. On a happier note, speak up to support Woolwich's essential Climate Act Plan. Here’s the latest:</span></font></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">1) Multiple New Campaigns Against Bill 5 Announced -</b> It’s fantastic to see organizations across Ontario announcing new campaigns to repeal Bill 5 while First Nations promise protest and ongoing opposition to this draconian Bill that creates lawless Special Economic Zones, cancels the Endangered Species Act, removes Heritage and Archeology protections, and tramples First Nations rights.</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Here’s the latest media:</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CBC - Doug Ford’s Bill 5 Is Now Law In Ontario. Here’s What Happens Next:</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-bill-5-doug-ford-future-1.7553800">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-bill-5-doug-ford-future-1.7553800</a></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Narwhal - First Nations Consultations Aren’t The Roadblock To Unleashing The Ring Of Fire:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-bill-5-indigenous-consultation/">https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-bill-5-indigenous-consultation/</a></div><div><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><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; 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 - Indigenous Protestors Set Up Tent Occupation At Queens Park Over Bill 5:</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/indigenous-rural-and-northern-affairs/indigenous-occupation-queens-park-protest-bill-5-10768482?">https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/indigenous-rural-and-northern-affairs/indigenous-occupation-queens-park-protest-bill-5-10768482?</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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Narwhal - The Premier Is Telling Untruths To First Nations - A Turbulent Week In Ontario Politics:</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://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-roundup-bill-5/">https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-roundup-bill-5/</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>Informative Statements - </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Here’s a good statement from Environmental Defence on the impacts of the Premier now having the power to override any law, any time:</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>Passage Of Bill 5 Deals A Grave Blow To The Rule Of Law 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>ED Media Statement - <a href="https://environmentaldefence.ca/2025/06/05/bill-5-threatens-rule-of-law-and-endangered-species/">https://environmentaldefence.ca/2025/06/05/bill-5-threatens-rule-of-law-and-endangered-species/</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>Wildlands League, Toronto Zoo, CUPE, Ecojustice, Neskantaga First Nation, and Ontario Society of Professional Engineers Statement:</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>Bill 5 Must Be Withdrawn - <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 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>New Campaigns - </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Several organizations have announced new campaigns where you can send letters with one-click:</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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>David Suzuki Foundation - Repeal Bill 5:</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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://davidsuzuki.org/action/repealbill5/">https://davidsuzuki.org/action/repealbill5/</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>NDP Repeal Bill 5 Campaign:</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://ontariondp.ca/repeal-bill-5">https://ontariondp.ca/repeal-bill-5</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>Green Party Campaign To Repeal Bill 5:</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/repeal-bill-5/">https://gpo.ca/action_campaign/repeal-bill-5/</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>Background Info -</b> Mike Schreiner, Green Party Leader has made a great explainer video on Bill 5:</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><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>Resistance and Uprising -</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> We shouldn’t underestimate the opposition to this Bill and the trouble the government is in as most of their own amendments didn’t even make it into this Bill. Here’s some stories of pushback already:</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 Wellington Advertiser - Local Councillor Signs Letter Opposing Province’s Bill 5:</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.wellingtonadvertiser.com/local-councillor-signs-letter-opposing-provinces-bill-5/">https://www.wellingtonadvertiser.com/local-councillor-signs-letter-opposing-provinces-bill-5/</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; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Charlie Angus - The Resistance: Diplomacy Ends Today:</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://charlieangus.substack.com/p/resistance-indigenous-style">https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/resistance-indigenous-style</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;">Repeal Bill 5 Facebook Group - There is also a well moderated Facebook Group on Bill 5 that will keep you apprised on the latest pushback and developments related to Bill 5:</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/groups/4000244733625520">https://www.facebook.com/groups/4000244733625520</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><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 Actions - </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. Keep writing, calling, speaking out, encouraging Council motions, and drafting letters to the editor and Op-Eds. With 41 of the government’s own amendments still missing from this Bill, much work has yet to be done and this is far from over...</span></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;">2) Bill 17 - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">The Building Faster and Smarter Act, was so rushed by the government it skipped all consultation and committee hearings. Most municipalities haven’t even had time to submit comments and Staff Reports are coming forward in Council Chambers across Ontario expressing serious concerns with this Bill that will gut Green Development Standards, expand undemocratic MZO powers, and negatively impacts almost every stage of development, planning, and once again cuts essential development charges municipalities depend on to provision growth.</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;">The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) has issued an excellent statement of concerns about the passing of Bill 17:</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>Bill 17 Gives More Profit To Developers While Risking Higher Bills And Environmental Damage For Homeowners And Communities:</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.torontoenvironment.org/statement_on_passing_of_bill_17_in_the_ontario_legislature">https://www.torontoenvironment.org/statement_on_passing_of_bill_17_in_the_ontario_legislature</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>Recent Coverage:</b></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>TAF - Bill 17 Can’t Stop The Momentum For Green Buildings:</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://taf.ca/bill-17-cant-stop-the-momentum-for-green-buildings/">https://taf.ca/bill-17-cant-stop-the-momentum-for-green-buildings/</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>Midwestern Newspapers - Bruce County Seeks Clarity On Bill 17:</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://midwesternnewspapers.com/county-seeks-clarity-on-bill-17/">https://midwesternnewspapers.com/county-seeks-clarity-on-bill-17/</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>GuelphToday.com - Guelph Council Condemns Ford’s Bill 5 and Bill 17:</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.guelphtoday.com/local-news/guelph-council-condemns-fords-bill-5-and-bill-17-10796602">https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/guelph-council-condemns-fords-bill-5-and-bill-17-10796602</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;"><div><span style="font-weight: 700; 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;">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;">As more Staff Reports on Bill 17 come forward across Ontario e</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;">nsure your local Councillors speak up as well.</span></div><div><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;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap; 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 - ERO - </span><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;">Speak Up On the Environmental Registry of Ontario to ensure concerns are part of the public record by June 26th at:</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><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><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;">Stand.earth has made a fantastic tool to help guide people through easily submitting Bill 17 ERO comments and suggestions on what to say. Check it out and use it at:</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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b7npbV-AwROx9KoiBtOpWqOJOB1G6Wk2sGI54CaBxYw/edit?tab=t.0">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b7npbV-AwROx9KoiBtOpWqOJOB1G6Wk2sGI54CaBxYw/edit?tab=t.0</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; white-space: pre-wrap; 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;">Action Required - </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap; 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;">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><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></p></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="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">3) Yet Again More </b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Greenbelt Scandal -</b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> The provincial transparency watchdog has released troubling findings about the provincial government</span></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">’</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">s inadequate handling of records along with the use of codewords, personal accounts and personal devices regarding the 2022 Greenbelt removals. The Information and Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim stated the governments actions, activities, and approach not only violate legal record-keeping obligations but erode public trust and integrity of government.</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><u><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The IPC Commissioner noted there was a </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">“</span></u><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><u>surprising lack of Greenbelt documentation at all.</u> This near-total absence of decision-making documentation is particularly concerning, especially on a file as high profile and consequential as changes to the Greenbelt.</span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">”</span> </font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The investigations are still continuing and the Commissioner stated that the last time this happened someone went to jail:</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Trillium - Commissioner Finds Officials Broke Legal Record-Keeping Obligations In Planning Greenbelt Removals:</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></font><a href="https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/politics/commissioner-finds-officials-broke-legal-record-keeping-obligations-in-planning-greenbelt-removals-10799883">https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/politics/commissioner-finds-officials-broke-legal-record-keeping-obligations-in-planning-greenbelt-removals-10799883</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: pre; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> </span><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CBC News - Ford Government Used Code Words To Make It </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">“</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Unduly Difficult</span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">” To Search Greenbelt Records:</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></font><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-government-greenbelt-records-code-words-1.7559720">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-government-greenbelt-records-code-words-1.7559720</a></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Toronto Star - Watchdog Slams Ford Government For Using Code Words And Private E-mails To Discuss The Greenbelt:</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></font><a href="https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/watchdog-slams-ford-government-for-using-code-words-and-private-emails-to-discuss-the-greenbelt/article_99dd3eb3-ed48-414a-b301-be3a5525aecf.html">https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/watchdog-slams-ford-government-for-using-code-words-and-private-emails-to-discuss-the-greenbelt/article_99dd3eb3-ed48-414a-b301-be3a5525aecf.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Global News - Ford Government Broke Legal Record Keeping Rules During Greenbelt Scandal:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/11237831/ford-government-greenbelt-ipc-investigation/">https://globalnews.ca/news/11237831/ford-government-greenbelt-ipc-investigation/</a></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; text-wrap-mode: wrap; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2549e61f-7fff-dccb-1b42-c542c8389fcf"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></p></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;"><b>Greenbelt 10-Year Review -</b> In other Greenbelt news, Freedom Of Information Act requests filed by the CBC shows that the provincial government is months behind launching a mandatory 10-year review of the Greenbelt. The last review lead by former Toronto Mayor David Crombie in 2017 was one of the largest public hearings ever held by the province with tens of thousands of people participating showing overwhelming support for the Greenbelt and the Review’s conclusion that the Greenbelt has been very successfully achieving its objectives to protect lands and water while better guiding growth more sustainably.</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;"><div style="font-weight: normal; text-wrap-mode: wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2549e61f-7fff-dccb-1b42-c542c8389fcf"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CBC - Launch Of Mandatory Ontario Greenbelt Review Months Overdue: Internal Docs:</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mandatory-greenbelt-review-overdue-1.7556250">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mandatory-greenbelt-review-overdue-1.7556250</a></p></span></div><div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div><b>Action Required -</b> Continue to support and stand up for the Greenbelt.</div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-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 very unfortunate to learn of the sudden passing this week of Tim Strassburger, one of the Wilmot landowners still holding out against the threats of expropriation and extreme pressures to sell from the Region of Waterloo and provincial government on the 770 acres. He was just 66 years old and it’s sad to think how much of what was his final year and half has been spent fighting the government, trying to protect his community and the home/acreage he loved so much. It was his wife Fran Strassburger who has been responsible for all the neon “Not Willing Hosts” shirts and packing Council Chambers and rallies time and time again.</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">Tim’s Funeral is on Friday, June 13th at 1:00pm in Kitchener at the Henry Walser Funeral Home - details and his obituary can be found at:</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://www.henrywalser.com/obituaries/Tim-Strassburger?obId=42829187">https://www.henrywalser.com/obituaries/Tim-Strassburger?obId=42829187</a></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div><b>Recent Media -</b> It was good to see an article in the Record this week recognizing the huge negative impacts that Bill 5 could have on our communities with regards to creating a massive lawless area for the Wilmot mega-industrial land assembly:</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Record - Wild West Or Meeting The Moment? Bill 5 Arrives:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/wild-west-or-meeting-the-moment-bill-5-arrives/article_0861c5fd-d8bb-5f3b-8814-6060189cf3a7.html">https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/wild-west-or-meeting-the-moment-bill-5-arrives/article_0861c5fd-d8bb-5f3b-8814-6060189cf3a7.html</a></div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><b>WilmotCAN Strategic Planning Meeting - </b>The next WilmotCAN Strategic Planning Meeting has been changed from Friday afternoon to this coming Saturday, June 14th 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 weather forecast is calling for beautiful sunny day on Saturday!</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">This next planning session will be focussed on growth, rural protections, and how to achieve a sustainable future:</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>WilmotCAN Planning Meeting - John Jordan’s Farm - Saturday, June 14th from 1pm to 4pm, 2791 Bleams Road, New Hamburg</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><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; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">5) Very Troubling Rollback Of Blue Box Recycling In Ontario - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">In what was originally billed as a major step forward to improve/expand recycling, reduce costs to consumers, and get industry to pay for better material handling is being significantly downgraded by the Ford government. Already significantly behind schedule and over budget, Doug Ford once again proves his government cannot competently deliver any program as major changes will delay recycling targets by five years, greatly reduce what will be collected, cancel expansions, reduce locations served, and absurdly allow materials incinerated to be counted as recycled:</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>Canada’s National Observer - Ford Government Proposes Major Rollback Of Blue Box Recycling Rules:</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.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/06/news/ford-proposes-rollback-ontario-blue-box-recycling-rules">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/06/news/ford-proposes-rollback-ontario-blue-box-recycling-rules</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">The Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks is proposing to trash more than a decade of progress towards better recycling by allowing producers of packaging waste to walk away from their 2021 commitment to expand recycling to schools, multi-unit residential buildings, and long-term care homes. Learn more in the government backgrounder:</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></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://prod-environmental-registry.s3.amazonaws.com/2025-06/Proposed%20Amendments%20to%20the%20Blue%20Box%20Regulation.pdf">https://prod-environmental-registry.s3.amazonaws.com/2025-06/Proposed%20Amendments%20to%20the%20Blue%20Box%20Regulation.pdf</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b>Speak Up On The ERO -</b> We have until July 4th to submit comments and concerns to the Environmental Registry of Ontario:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0009">https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0009</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><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>Action Required -</b> Don’t let Doug Ford destroy our successful Blue Box Recycling programs that need to be expanded and improved - not cut and reduced. Speak up now for the future you want to see.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><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) GO Trains Not Coming - </b>In yet another Metrolinx and Doug Ford disaster, it seems that the Two-Way, All-Day GO Trains promised for years by the Doug Ford government to be here in 2025 aren’t just in serious jeopardy but have already been cancelled indefinitely for the Kitchener Line along with many required upgrades. That instead a minimum viable product of some upgrades to the Lakeshore GO Train lines for 2038 is about all that is coming after so many wasted years of bungling and millions and millions of dollars fettered away in Doug Ford’s Metrolinx chaos that has already cost CEO Phil Verster his job earlier this year:</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Trillium - How Metrolinx’s Plan To Deliver European-Style Train Service Went Off The Rails:</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.thetrillium.ca/news/the-trillium-investigations/how-metrolinxs-plan-to-deliver-european-style-train-service-went-off-the-rails-10786705">https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-trillium-investigations/how-metrolinxs-plan-to-deliver-european-style-train-service-went-off-the-rails-10786705</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;"><div style="font-weight: normal;">The consequences are far-reaching for the Grand River Watershed with so much massive growth of hundreds of thousands of more people planned, Highway 401 already a disaster with no further planned upgrades, and now the inter-city GO Trains being counted on no longer coming anytime soon. It seems only the awful 2-3 hour long infrequent GO Train service we currently endure is on the table.</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">It didn’t have to be this way. Former Premier Kathleen Wynne had launched an very ambitious GO Train expansion plan including new tracks, new freight bypasses, etc. that would have been completed by 2022 that Doug Ford immediately cancelled when he was first elected in 2018 saying it was too expensive and he could do it better for far less. </div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">Doug Ford also canceled the excellent High Speed Rail that the Wynne government had promised would be running with 8 years (2025) between Kitchener, Pearson Airport and Toronto saying it too was too expensive. Granted there were issues with the High Speed Rail route proposed between Kitchener and London however the Kitchener to Toronto section in less than an hour was broadly embraced and could even be profitable despite significant investment.</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">Now we have nothing but gridlock traffic, more cars and people projected than ever and a bungling Doug Ford provincial government that can’t build anything, at any cost, on any timeline - only break and destroy as the Science Centre, Ontario Place, Eglinton CrossTown LRT, the Greenbelt scandal, the loss of Regional Planning, etc. all demonstrate firsthand. The incompetence and consequences are staggering and the implications for our communities are far-reaching. This will greatly impair our hopes and ability to achieve future success without adequate, sustainable transportation.</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div><b>Action Required -</b> More information should be forthcoming in the weeks ahead as more Freedom Of Information Requests are received and media investigations continue. Be sure to speak up for the high quality, reliable, sustainable transportation we need for the future.</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">7) Ontario Housing Crisis -</b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"> As we have predicted, none of Doug Ford’s plans to destroy vast amounts of irreplaceable farmland, pave over environmental areas, and destroy groundwater recharge areas have worked to address the housing crisis to provide affordable housing, housing choice, and the missing middle in the areas close to services and transit where people want to live. While other provinces succeed in building more housing, Ontario housing starts have hit another record low in the continual chaos and uncertainty created by endless legislation changes, removal of Planning Authority, and so many poorly conceived provincial housing bills.</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;">Not surprising the media is now reporting that the provincial government has been withholding information on just how bad things are in Ontario and how hopeless it is for so many people needing affordable, sustainable housing:</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><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">CBC News - Ontario Housing Starts Are At Lowest Level Since 2009:</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 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/housing-ontario-1.7558645" 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://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/housing-ontario-1.7558645</span></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 id="docs-internal-guid-af32e67d-7fff-37a2-84e3-13be48cf828b"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><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>Global News - Ford Government Sitting On Housing Stats For Months, Internal Docs Suggest:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><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://globalnews.ca/news/11235807/ontario-build-faster-fund-data/" 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://globalnews.ca/news/11235807/ontario-build-faster-fund-data/</span></a></p><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;">Thankfully there are easy solutions to the housing crisis starting with common sense plans to build within our existing communities utilizing infrastructure already in place. Here’s a great article from the Narwhal showing how housing can solve both social and environmental issues while being deeply affordable when the focus is on citizens needs and not pandering to well-connected developers:</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;"><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The Narwhal - From $2,600 to $775: How Social Housing Is Changing Lives - And Fighting Climate Change:</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-affordable-energy-efficient-homes/">https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-affordable-energy-efficient-homes/</a></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;"></div><div><b>Action Required -</b> Demand the Ford government stop destroying our proven planning system, restore Planning Authority, and focus on the public rather than developers.</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">8) Help Support The Woolwich Climate Action Plan - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">On Tuesday June 24th the Woolwich Township Corporate and Community Climate Action Plan will be finalized by Woolwich Council. Local activists need your help to pack Council Chambers and ensure that Council approves a plan that will help Woolwich reduce GHG emissions by ensuring that the Green Levy Fund is used for community projects and innovation - not corporate budget items that should be funded by regular operational budgets. 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>Woolwich Council Meeting, June 24th at 7:00pm</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>Woolwich Council Chambers, 24 Church Street West, Elmira</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;">Kudos also to the City of Waterloo that shows successful climate action is possible with a 40% reduction in corporate GHG emissions:</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><a href="https://www.waterloo.ca//modules/news/index.aspx?newsId=0198d82e-5c14-4047-9b65-d0e98e4b24cd&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email">https://www.waterloo.ca//modules/news/index.aspx?newsId=0198d82e-5c14-4047-9b65-d0e98e4b24cd&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><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;">Also showing firsthand how it can be done, Energy Neighbour is a fantastic program in Toronto providing no-cost one-on-one expert advice on clean energy retrofits such as heat pumps and solar panels. Check it out firsthand 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-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><a href="https://energyneighbour.ca/">https://energyneighbour.ca/</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b>Action Required -</b> Attend the Woolwich Township Council meeting to show your support for essential climate action and write Woolwich Councillors and Clerk at jsmith@woolwich.ca. Help to promote success stories happening in our communities.</div><div style="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;">9) Recent Articles -</b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"> Include plans for modular housing and Waterloo Regional Environmental Fund winners announced:</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 Globe and Mail - Mattamy Homes Founder Peter Gilgan To Start Prefab Housing Factory In Ontario:</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/business/article-mattamy-homes-peter-gilgan-prefab-housing-factory-ontario/">https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-mattamy-homes-peter-gilgan-prefab-housing-factory-ontario/</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>CambridgeToday.com - $90k Awarded To Community-Led Environmental Initiatives Across Waterloo Region:</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.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/90k-awarded-to-community-led-environmental-initiatives-across-waterloo-region-10782853">https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/90k-awarded-to-community-led-environmental-initiatives-across-waterloo-region-10782853</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;">10) Huron Natural Area - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">A new grassroots group has formed to respond to the recent approval by Kitchener City Council to allow development next to the Huron Natural Area and in the amazing natural Hidden Valley area. Join the thousands of people who have signed their online petition 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.change.org/p/stop-the-development-surrounding-the-huron-natural-area-in-kitchener">https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-development-surrounding-the-huron-natural-area-in-kitchener</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;">And learn more about the group Protect Huron Natural Area, check out their 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/share/16D2yYTqAD/?mibextid=wwXIfr">https://www.facebook.com/share/16D2yYTqAD/?mibextid=wwXIfr</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 and help to protect these amazing natural areas in Kitchener.</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><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">11) New OGA Webinar - </b>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Details are as follows:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Date/Time: Thursday, June 19th, 2025 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Register Online In Advance At: <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Q30FiflQLmmoUQKe9h7bw#/registration">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Q30FiflQLmmoUQKe9h7bw#/registration</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Action Required - </b>Sign up, share, and learn what we need to do in the months ahead. More details below in the poster in Appendix H).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">12) Osprey Valley Pit - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Caledon residents are facing another massive blasting quarry near the Forks of the Credit Provincial Park that includes the horrific proposal to pump 500 million litres of water per year for at least 50 years. This water would drain into the Credit River endangering local drinking water and some of the last remaining brook trout populations.</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;">Sign an online petition from The Forks of the Credit Preservation Group 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.fcpreservation.ca/osprey_petition">https://www.fcpreservation.ca/osprey_petition</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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b>Action Required -</b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"> Please sign the petition and speak up to protect this amazing natural area.</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;">13) Wildland Firefighting Cuts -</b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"> It seems absurd when the sun has been blocked for days by massive amounts of wildfire smoke and people cannot even safely venture outdoors for all the massive forest fires raging in Canada that Doug Ford and the provincial government would cut $42 million from the Wildland Firefighting Budget and a further $4 million from Emergency Preparedness. The NDP has launched a campaign to raise awareness and pushback. Send a letter the Premier and provincial government with one-click 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://ontariondp.ca/reverse-the-cuts">https://ontariondp.ca/reverse-the-cuts</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;"> Demand more government action - not less to address our climate crisis and resilience.</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;"><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;"><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) Water Watchers Coffee Break -</b> Recent weeks have been exhausting and depressing. It’s a challenging time and we need to support each other. Join the Water Watchers for a virtual mid-day coffee break to support each other and take time to be seen and heard. Details are as follows:</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; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Date/Time: Wednesday, June 18th from 12:15pm to 1:15pm</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 class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>RSVP at: <a href="https://www.waterwatchers.ca/coffee_break_june_18_2025">https://www.waterwatchers.ca/coffee_break_june_18_2025</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; 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>Take a break and enjoy good company.</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><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;">15) Great Lakes Protection - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">The Great Lakes Executive Committee is raising awareness about the need for radionuclides to be designated as a Chemical of Mutual Concern under the Great Lakes Water Quality Act. You can learn more in the following report:</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.greatlakesecoregion.org/_files/ugd/d7ed69_ce7300b9e29c49a4bac79348d901b142.pdf">https://www.greatlakesecoregion.org/_files/ugd/d7ed69_ce7300b9e29c49a4bac79348d901b142.pdf</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">There will be important meetings coming up on June 18th at 1pm and July 14th at 10am. To learn more or attend please contact: jjackson@web.ca</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) Hamilton Forced Boundary Expansion - </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Once again Hamilton is fighting attempts from the provincial government to change rules for developers and opening the door for private urban boundary expansions anytime, anywhere. On Wednesday, June 25th Hamilton City Council will decide on two private-owner attempts to convert over 3,800 acres of farmland and natural areas to subdivisions.</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;">Hamilton350.org is holding a webinar on how to fight back and help block these development attempts. Details are as follows:</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: Thursday, June 19th at 7:00pm</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>RSVP at: <a href="https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrceyrpzMiHNaXB7jVwRCnlCykveD1iH_V#/registration">https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrceyrpzMiHNaXB7jVwRCnlCykveD1iH_V#/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;">Attend the webinar and show your opposition to any boundary expansions to Hamilton elected officials.</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;"><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">17) We Organize With Busy Lives - How To Build Community - </b>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:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Date/Time: Wednesday, June 18th from 6:30pm to 8:00pm</div><div><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><br></div><div>More details in poster below in Appendix G).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">18) No Free Ride For Fossil Fuels Act - </b>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:</div><div><br></div><div><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><b>Action Required - </b>Speak up, support this bill, make Enbridge pay their fair share, and help to reduce fossil fuels in our communities.</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;"><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">19) 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;">20) 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><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-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">21) Additional Articles -</b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"> Includes concerns about the federal government’s Bill C-2 going too far, and the City of Ottawa learning first hand the unsustainable cost of sprawl by having to take on debt to cover billions of dollars of outstanding infrastructure repairs:</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; text-wrap-mode: wrap; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-wrap-mode: wrap; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bill C-2 -</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap; 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;">Podcast is Broken - commentary about Bill C2:</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; text-wrap-mode: wrap; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap; 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;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline; 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-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/brittlestar/p/building-fortress-canada-bill-c-2" style="text-decoration: none;">https://open.substack.com/pub/brittlestar/p/building-fortress-canada-bill-c-2</a></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;"><div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-af32e67d-7fff-37a2-84e3-13be48cf828b"><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>CBC - Ottawa To Take On Debt To Cover Billions Of Dollars Of Infrastructure Repairs:</div><div><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></span></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ottawa learning the true costs of sprawl and it points to an even more unsustainable future….</div><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;"><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;">22) Some Positivity </b><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">- Listen and learn first-hand from globally famous University of Waterloo Economics Professor Larry Smith - now Engineering Professor in this excellent lecture on Canada In A World Without Rules. See firsthand why Larry has been continually rated the UW students favourite professor for decades:</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.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve8OnsfAwws">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve8OnsfAwws</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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text-indent: 0px;"><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; 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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 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; 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-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></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; -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 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 style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">Friday, June 13th - 2:30pm - Waterloo Region All-Council Meeting - Regional Council Chambers</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;"><br></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">Saturday, June 14th - 1:00pm - WilmotCAN Strategic Planning Meeting - <a href="http://www.wilmotcan.com/">www.wilmotcan.com</a></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 - 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;"><br></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Friday, June 20th - 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 style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><br></div><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;">Thursday, June 26th - 11:59pm - Deadline to respond to Bill 17 ERO - <a href="https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0462">https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0462</a></div><a href="https://wildlandsleague.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2aa22d40e540243dac540b4a0&id=d9c6f0d184&e=d038e4690f" target="_blank" data-block-id="4" style="word-break: break-word; display: block;"></a><div style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><br></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><b style="font-size: 14px;">Appendix B) Bill 5 </b></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="https://wildlandsleague.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2aa22d40e540243dac540b4a0&id=d9c6f0d184&e=d038e4690f" target="_blank" data-block-id="4" style="word-break: break-word; display: block;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" data-testid="image-4" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; max-width: 100%; width: 660px; height: auto;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="word-break: break-word; border: 0px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px;"><img alt="7b12eb03-16ad-6b9f-caff-d1779c1820a3.png" height="auto" class="imageDropZone mceImage" src="cid:C462ABA9-0DFC-48F5-BB04-FEA8ED148745" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: currentcolor; display: block; max-width: 100%; border-radius: 0px;"><br><div style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/4000244733625520">https://www.facebook.com/groups/4000244733625520</a></div><div><br></div><br><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 12px; 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><b style="font-size: 14px;">-----------------------------------</b></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">Appendix C) Bill 17 ERO</b> - Speak up by June 26th:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0462">https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0462</a></div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div><img id="<3ED8750B-F3B2-4A0D-A0C7-912B3A7078C2>" src="cid:8503184B-8A17-4DE2-B89C-63BC4D45A598" alt="Screenshot 2025-06-04 at 9.04.54 AM.png" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment" class="Apple-web-attachment Singleton Apple-edge-to-edge-visual-media" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px -10.5px; opacity: 1;"><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div> <a href="https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0462">https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0462</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;"><br></b></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------</b></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">D) Signed, Seared, and Delivered Postcard Campaign - Climate Emergency Unit:</b></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.signedseareddelivered.com/">https://www.signedseareddelivered.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div><img id="<AB595C13-7608-4B70-B7DE-AEE1A3F962AA>" src="cid:CA560CD6-B976-456A-A5DE-513C118398DC" alt="Screenshot 2025-06-05 at 9.47.11 PM.png" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment" class="Apple-web-attachment Singleton" style="font-size: 12px; opacity: 1;"><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">-------------------------------------</b></div><div><b style="font-size: 14px;">E) Basic Income Waterloo Region - Youth Engagement Webinar - Wednesday, June 19th at 6:30pm:</b></div></div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div><img id="<EA695788-6410-4618-B9C8-5E0B0DC607DE>" src="cid:C9CE0E3B-79BD-466A-9B03-F01CB90C02EA" alt="Screenshot 2025-06-03 at 9.34.31 AM.png" width="557" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment" class="Apple-web-attachment Singleton" style="font-size: 12px; opacity: 1;"><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div></div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div><img id="<06016596-36F5-4043-A202-D6FED4FDC003>" src="cid:5682A246-2E22-4DB3-A8B7-E87E367C9338" alt="Screenshot 2025-06-03 at 9.34.39 AM.png" width="554" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment" class="Apple-web-attachment Singleton" style="font-size: 12px; opacity: 1;"><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>-------------------------------------</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>F) OGA Webinar - June 19th at 4:00pm</b></span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Q30FiflQLmmoUQKe9h7bw#/registration">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Q30FiflQLmmoUQKe9h7bw#/registration</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div><img id="<240B351D-CD6F-4917-BE76-D492E76E1246>" src="cid:8C024CB8-7616-456E-A97E-CB7A8A16B9A8" alt="Screenshot 2025-06-04 at 12.48.41 PM.png" type="application/x-apple-msg-attachment" class="Apple-web-attachment Singleton Apple-edge-to-edge-visual-media" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px -10.5px; opacity: 1;"><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Q30FiflQLmmoUQKe9h7bw#/registration">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_Q30FiflQLmmoUQKe9h7bw#/registration</a></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>-------------------------------</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Appendix G) Speak Up On The Blue Box ERO:</b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 12px; 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 style="line-height: inherit; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><div align="center" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><a href="https://ocaa.cmail19.com/t/y-l-qluiukl-ijfukiijr-y/" style="line-height: inherit; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in; color: rgb(87, 166, 7);"></a></div></div></div><div><a href="https://wildlandsleague.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2aa22d40e540243dac540b4a0&id=d9c6f0d184&e=d038e4690f" target="_blank" data-block-id="4" style="word-break: break-word; display: block;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" data-testid="image-4" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top; max-width: 100%; width: 660px; height: auto;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="word-break: break-word; border: 0px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0009">https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0009</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img alt="Screenshot 2025-06-10 at 11.18.57 PM.png" src="cid:D8BF7709-06AF-415C-9FA5-94F3569D1E07"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; position: relative;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; 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vertical-align: middle; width: 40px; height: 40px; min-width: 40px; min-height: 40px; object-fit: cover; margin: 0px; display: inline;" alt="https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F422c100b-996a-4543-a03c-04835c50496c_1441x1441.jpeg" src="cid:06E9E282-5219-4AF0-9D9F-D3CE44BD1E7C"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; padding: 32px 0px 0px; line-height: 26px;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: initial; line-height: 26px; width: 550px; word-break: break-word; margin-bottom: 16px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Our nation is on fire.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">We went from the coldest and wettest spring I can remember straight into fire season. Summer didn’t even get a chance. The latest fire map shows Canada’s north, from the Atlantic to British Columbia, under an extreme fire threat.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Mass evacuations are underway in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The army has been sent into Northwestern Ontario. Folks in major cities are coughing from the smoke of fires thousands of kilometres away.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Toronto had some of the worst air quality on the planet. People are being told to stay in doors. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">And the hot months are still on their way.</p><div style="line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td align="left" width="1456" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/302c7f4b-d479-4ca9-9f03-d65ad0e74ee3?j=eyJ1IjoiMmhpNWp4In0.mYtoKrthzDDBipfWK-mIOODaVrH2OJQbO2ZRSGW9P8A" rel="" target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; width: auto; height: auto; border: medium; text-decoration: none; display: block; margin: 0px;"><img alt="https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F06775d1c-4cb9-4c1e-ae7a-035371c99dc8_1634x1404.heic" height="472.5618131868132" style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; border: medium !important; width: auto !important;" src="cid:F73846D3-653B-4DF3-8968-78B984968399"></a></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">In the 2023 mass climate fires, Canada released more carbon into the atmosphere than the entire industrial economies of major nations. Soot from the fires covered the ice shields, which hastened their melting.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">It's called the <em>feedback effect</em>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">As the fires erupted across our northern landscape, an important story emerged that barely received notice. It was a new report on the accelerated collapse of the ice fields.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">The report notes that even if we could limit global temperatures to a 1.5-degree Celsius increase, the world's ice fields will continue to melt, resulting in a massive rise in ocean levels. This will plunge the world into environmental and potential social chaos.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">That story only made it to a few science blogs.</p><div style="line-height: 26px;"><hr style="margin: 32px 0px; padding: 0px; height: 1px; background: rgb(230, 230, 230); border: medium;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">As Canada burns there is a massive disconnect in the coverage of the crisis. Weather reports talk about smoky the way they used to talk about rain. They advise whether it is dangerous to go outdoors. There is no talk about what is causing this.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">The national news is focused on negotiations between Prime Minister Mark Carney and the premiers about speeding up massive projects that are in the "national interest."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">In Canada, "national interest" always means oil pipelines.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">With the Trump threat to break up our country, Canada's oil industry has seen a huge opportunity to play hardball. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Witness the sudden emergence of a militant separatist movement in Alberta trying to play havoc with the new Prime Minister. The threat is clear - unless Canadians are nicer to the oil industry, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will break up our country.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Spoiling for a fight, Premier Danielle Smith has put forward a list of "non-negotiables." One of them is to trash the standards that would improve fuel efficiency in cars. That is like threatening to break up the country to keep lead in gasoline.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Top of her list is building more pipelines.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">It's the "if you want to save the country, you have to let us burn the planet" pitch.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">The <em>National Post</em> pundits and Astro-turf Alberta separatists present us with a sense of outraged grievance that the dastardly Liberals have tried to destroy Alberta's energy sector. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">They are lying.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Under the Trudeau government, oil production in Canada hit record levels. In fact, over the last ten years, Canada led the world in increased oil production.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">While other countries in the G7 moved ahead with clean energy to meet their Net Zero commitments, Canada doubled down on expanding production in the tar sands.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">This heavy commitment to oil expansion has meant that Canada has missed every single greenhouse gas emissions target it has set. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Environment Commissioner Gerry DeMarco says that Canada is an outlier among the G7, allowing increased emissions while other countries have dramatically reduced theirs.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Even as Canada's oil giants made record profits, the Trudeau government spent $34 billion in public money to build the TMX pipeline. This is because there wasn’t a company on the planet willing to take the risk. There was no business case.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">So the taxpayers got stuck with the boondoggle to the tune of $1200 per household. And that still wasn't good enough for the oil execs.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">They are pissed about the toll rates they have to pay to ship unrefined bitumen down the pipe. Toll rates are how a pipeline pays for itself over the long run.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Right now, every barrel is being subsidized over 50 cents on the dollar, and the oil giants are complaining that they deserve a better deal.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">But in the interest of “national unity” better not talk about the sinkhole that is TMX because we’re being called upon to spend much, much more. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Prime Minister Carney has promised to fast track projects that are deemed in the national interest. He also states that Canada will promote "non-carbonized" oil to the world.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Non-carbonized oil is the ultimate industry lie.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">It is based on the premise that the public (not the companies) should invest billions in unproven carbon capture technology, so that the oil giants can massively increase oil production and this will somehow diminish emissions.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">There are two huge problems with this claim.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">First, Canada's tar sands are the dirtiest source of fuel on the planet. There is simply no way the fields can be developed without massive impacts on the atmosphere.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">And the second part of the lie is that oil being produced will be burned. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Hence emissions. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Duh.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Climate scientist James Hansen, writing in the <em>New York Times</em>, says that if Canada goes in big on the tar sands, it is "game over" for the planet. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">What is most striking is that under Canada's "Net Zero" global promises, big oil was never factored to take a hit. The Liberal government accepted the premise that Big Oil could continue increasing production while bureaucrats fiddled with the numbers to somehow meet our international commitments. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">I know this from hearings in Ottawa where I asked straightforward questions to regulators about how we planned to meet Net Zero.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">It was an endless array of people promising that they could drink their way to sobriety.</p><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/e4ed9a71-dec4-47da-9929-dad39a0ddd13?j=eyJ1IjoiMmhpNWp4In0.mYtoKrthzDDBipfWK-mIOODaVrH2OJQbO2ZRSGW9P8A" target="_blank" style="display: block; margin: 32px 0px;"><img style="vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; display: block; width: 550px; border: medium !important;" alt="th3H5r-p0Dk.jpeg" src="cid:18178DE8-B051-40FA-8361-966D6DEF3342"></a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;"><strong>The Real National Interest</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">It has been said that Canada is three giant monopolies in a trench coat. And so Big Oil just might get their way.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">As thousands are being evacuated from their homes, no one asked the obvious question about what increased fuel burning means for Canada or our fragile planet.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Isn’t saving our country from climate disaster a nation-building project? </p><div style="line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td align="left" width="786" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/154cbb8e-3170-493c-bde6-4e48981c1e53?j=eyJ1IjoiMmhpNWp4In0.mYtoKrthzDDBipfWK-mIOODaVrH2OJQbO2ZRSGW9P8A" rel="" target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; width: auto; height: auto; border: medium; text-decoration: none; display: block; margin: 0px;"><img alt="https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F14ceab5d-25b9-41cb-8876-80153f4a556a_786x967.heic" height="676.6539440203562" style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; border: medium !important; width: auto !important;" src="cid:82D62F05-C9BE-4CF6-806A-61D30DF4DC8D"></a></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Every year, 34,000 people die prematurely in Canada from fossil fuel pollution. Around the world, the deaths from air pollution are 8.7 million people – more than deaths from smoking.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Canada has the third highest childhood asthma rates linked to pollution in the world. We are just behind fellow oil giants Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in this category. And we are dramatically changing the planet for those who will live with the disastrous consequences of today's decisions.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">In <em>Fire Weather</em>, John Vaillant writes:</p><blockquote style="border-left-width: 4px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(0, 124, 137); margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">"By almost any measure, anyone born after 1990 is finding themselves in a new geological era, navigating a world fundamentally different from the one Baby Boomers and Gen Xers inherited. The chances of anyone alive today experiencing a year as relatively cool as 1996 are effectively nil." </p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">The eight years leading up to 2021 were the eight hottest ever recorded. Then, 2023 blew all those previous records away. And by 2024, climate scientists were warning that global temperatures were "off the charts." </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">In 2025 we blew past the 1.5 degree red line.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Canada still has a chance to slow the rate of the coming disaster. But it will mean standing up to the MAGA/Big Oil disinformation scheme.</p><div style="line-height: 26px;"><hr style="margin: 32px 0px; padding: 0px; height: 1px; background: rgb(230, 230, 230); border: medium;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;"><strong>Could Alberta Hold the Solution?</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">The world is moving rapidly in the direction of clean energy. The technology on battery storage and improved solar is improving by leaps and bounds. One has only to look at states like California and Texas, which have transformed their grid into clean energy powerhouses.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">There isn't a location in the world with better opportunities for clean energy than Alberta. They have the energy know-how, skilled workforce and geography, that could transform them into the clean energy capital of North America.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">I worked with many labour unions in Alberta on the push to create clean energy investments to diversify the economy. A study by Calgary Economic Development determined that clean energy investments in Alberta could create 170,000 jobs and generate $61 billion annually for the provincial economy by 2050.</p><div style="line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td align="left" width="1456" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/cbdc0cfa-8744-42b7-a625-698f0a021d4e?j=eyJ1IjoiMmhpNWp4In0.mYtoKrthzDDBipfWK-mIOODaVrH2OJQbO2ZRSGW9P8A" rel="" target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; width: auto; height: auto; border: medium; text-decoration: none; display: block; margin: 0px;"><img alt="https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ac9d0bf-9db5-4bc4-9b1e-7146e8436c14_4032x3024.heic" height="412.5" style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; border: medium !important; width: auto !important;" src="cid:4E8CF9DC-6F57-4991-B98D-D20D7CB6F082"></a></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table>Charlie Angus with workers at the IBEW clean energy training centre in Edmonton</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">But all that was stopped dead in its tracks by Premier Smith, who put a moratorium on clean energy projects and chased out $33 billion in planned clean energy investments because of ideological opposition to non-fossil fuel energy.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">And we would let this woman break up our country?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">Prime Minister Carney needs to put a plan on the table that is more credible than trying to keep the oil lobby happy. We need to bring in the skills of the energy workers and make the most of our abundant natural advantages. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">But to do so means taking on the ideology of MAGA Alberta. The window for action on a planetary crisis is rapidly closing.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 26px;">When I was a kid, I lived for summer. I didn't live in fear of fire season. Our grandchildren deserve the same right.</p><div style="line-height: 26px;"><hr style="margin: 32px 0px; padding: 0px; height: 1px; background: rgb(230, 230, 230); border: medium;"></div><h5 style="font-family: "SF Pro Display", -apple-system-headline, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); line-height: 1.16em;">Some of the research for this essay came from my recent book, <em><a href="https://substack.com/redirect/d25e35a1-4c87-4ea9-9a63-633797b1ea62?j=eyJ1IjoiMmhpNWp4In0.mYtoKrthzDDBipfWK-mIOODaVrH2OJQbO2ZRSGW9P8A" rel="" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55);">Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed</a></em>.</h5></div></div><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; 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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><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><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 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 dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></b></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;">Wilmot Township Council</font></b></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></b></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><div style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><div style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;">Natasha Salonen, Mayor, Wilmot, <u><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:natasha.salonen@wilmot.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">natasha.salonen@wilmot.ca</a></span></u> or 519-634-8519 x 9351</div><div style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;">Stewart Cressman, Councillor Ward 1, Wilmot, <u><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:stewart.cressman@wilmot.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">stewart.cressman@wilmot.ca</a></span></u><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in; display: inline !important;"> or 519-807-1496<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div></font></b></div><div style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in; display: inline !important;">Kris Wilkinson, Councillor Ward 2, Wilmot, <u><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:kris.wilkinson@wilmot.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">kris.wilkinson@wilmot.ca</a></span></u></div></font></b> or 519-807-4173</div><div style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;">Harvir Sidhu, Councillor Ward 3, Wilmot, <u><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:harvir.sidhu@wilmot.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">harvir.sidhu@wilmot.ca</a></span></u><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in; display: inline !important;"> or 519-807-2521</div></font></b></div><div style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in; display: inline !important;">Lillianne Dunstall, Councillor Ward 4, Wilmot, <u><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:lillianne.dunstall@wilmot.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">lillianne.dunstall@wilmot.ca</a></span></u></div></font></b><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in; display: inline !important;"> or 519-807-4975</div></font></b></div><div style="font-weight: 400; margin: 0in;"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in; display: inline !important;">Steven Martin, Councillor Ward 4, Wilmot, <u><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:steven.martin@wilmot.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">steven.martin@wilmot.ca</a></span></u></div></font></b> <b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px; margin: 0in; display: inline !important;">or 519-807-5214</div></font></b></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;">All Wilmot Councillors can be reached at a single simple address: <a href="mailto:council@wilmot.ca">council@wilmot.ca</a> </div><div><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;">Letters should also be sent to: <a href="mailto:clerks@wilmot.ca">clerks@wilmot.ca</a> to be included as part of the public record.</div></div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div></font></b></div></div></div></font></b></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;">Region of Waterloo Council</font></b></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><br></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 12px;"><div style="margin: 0in;">Karen Redman, Regional Chair, <a href="mailto:kredman@regionofwaterloo.ca">kredman@regionofwaterloo.ca</a></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Berry Vrbanovic, Mayor, Kitchener, <a href="mailto:berryv@kitchener.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">berryv@kitchener.ca</a></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Dorothy McCabe, Mayor, City of Waterloo, <a href="mailto:dorothy.mccabe@waterloo.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">dorothy.mccabe@waterloo.ca</a></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Jan Liggett, Cambridge Mayor, Cambridge, <a href="mailto:liggettj@cambridge.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">liggettj@cambridge.ca</a></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Sue Foxton, Mayor, North Dumfries, <u><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:sfoxton@northdumfries.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">sfoxton@northdumfries.ca</a></span></u></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Natasha Salonen, Mayor, Wilmot, <u><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:natasha.salonen@wilmot.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">natasha.salonen@wilmot.ca</a></span></u></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Joe Nowak, Mayor, Wellesley, <u><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:jnowak@wellesley.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">jnowak@wellesley.ca</a></span></u></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Sandy Shantz, Mayor, Woolwich, <a href="mailto:sshantz@woolwich.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">sshantz@woolwich.ca</a></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Doug Craig, Regional Councillor, Cambridge, <u><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:dougcraig@regionofwaterloo.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">dougcraig@regionofwaterloo.ca</a></span></u></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Pam Wolf, Regional Councillor, Cambridge, <a href="mailto:pwolf@regionofwaterloo.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">pwolf@regionofwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Colleen James, Regional Councillor, Kitchener, <a href="mailto:CJames@regionofwaterloo.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">CJames@regionofwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Michael Harris, Regional Councillor, Kitchener, <a href="mailto:MHarris@regionofwaterloo.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">MHarris@regionofwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Kari Williams, Regional Councillor, Kitchener, <a href="mailto:KariWilliams@regionofwaterloo.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">KariWilliams@regionofwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Rob Deutschmann, Regional Councillor, Kitchener, <a href="mailto:RDeutschmann@regionofwaterloo.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">RDeutschmann@regionofwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Jim Erb, Regional Councillor, Waterloo, <a href="mailto:JErb@regionofwaterloo.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">JErb@regionofwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;">Chantal Huinink, Regional Councillor, Waterloo, <a href="mailto:CHuinink@regionofwaterloo.ca" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">CHuinink@regionofwaterloo.ca</a></div></div></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 class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></b></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><span class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><div>All Regional Councillors and Mayors can be reached at a single simple address: <a href="mailto:regionalcouncillors@regionofwaterloo.ca">regionalcouncillors@regionofwaterloo.ca</a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;"><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>Letters should also be sent to: <a href="mailto:regionalclerk@regionofwaterloo.ca">regionalclerk@regionofwaterloo.ca</a> to be included as part of the public record.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><br></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><font class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: 14px;">County of Brant Contact list:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;">Mayor David Bailey <a href="mailto:david.bailey@brant.ca" target="_blank">david.bailey@brant.ca</a> 226-387-2490</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;">Councillor Ward 1 Jennifer Kyle <a href="mailto:jennifer.kyle@brant.ca" target="_blank">jennifer.kyle@brant.ca</a> 519-242-0898</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;">Councillor Ward 1 John MacAlpine <a href="mailto:john.macalpine@brant.ca">john.macalpine@brant.ca</a> 519-757-9359</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;">Councillor Ward 2 Steve Howes <a href="mailto:steve.howes@brant.ca">steve.howes@brant.ca</a> 519-442-4955</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;">Councillor Ward 2 Lukas Oakley <a href="mailto:lukas.oakley@brant.ca">lukas.oakley@brant.ca</a> 226-216-3037</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;">Councillor Ward 3 John Bell <a href="mailto:john.bell@brant.ca">john.bell@brant.ca</a> 519-209-2277</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;">Councillor Ward 3 John Peirce <a href="mailto:john.peirce@brant.ca">john.peirce@brant.ca</a> 519-442-7134</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;">Councillor Ward 4 Robert Chambers <a href="mailto:robert.chambers@brant.ca">robert.chambers@brant.ca</a> 519-449-2633</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;">Councillor Ward 4 David Miller <a href="mailto:jedamiller@sympatico.ca">jedamiller@sympatico.ca</a> 519-449-1240</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;">Councillor Ward 5 Brian Coleman <a href="mailto:brianatbridgeview@gmail.com">brianatbridgeview@gmail.com</a> 519-753-2798</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;">Councillor Ward 5 Christine Garneau <a href="mailto:christinegarneau@brant.ca">christinegarneau@brant.ca</a> 226-802-1217</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-weight: 400;"><br></div></font></b></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Province of Ontario</b></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div 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 class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Premier Doug Ford - <a shape="rect" href="mailto:doug.fordco@pc.ola.org" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">doug.fordco@pc.ola.org</a> or <span dir="ltr">416-325-1941 - available 24/7 - all calls confidential</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><span dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Or cal or text Doug Ford’s Personal Cell Phone - </span>647-612-3673</div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Paul Calandra - Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing - <a shape="rect" href="mailto:steve.clark@pc.ola.org" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paul.calandra@pc.ola.org</a> or <span dir="ltr">416-585-7000</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Andrea Khanjin - Minster of Environment, Conservation and Parks - <a href="mailto:andrea.khanjin@pc.ola.org">andrea.khanjin@pc.ola.org</a> or <span dir="ltr">705-722-0575</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><span dir="ltr">Vic Fedeli - Minister of Economic Development- <a href="mailto:vic.fedeli@pc.ola.org">vic.fedeli@pc.ola.org</a> or 416-326-8475</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><span dir="ltr">Rob Flack - Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing- <a href="mailto:rob.flack@pc.ola.org">rob.flack@pc.ola.org</a> or 416-326-3074</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Michael Parsa - Associate Minister of Housing - <a shape="rect" href="mailto:michael.parsaco@pc.ola.org" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">michael.parsaco@pc.ola.org</a></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><br clear="none" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Local Conservative MPPs:</div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Mike Harris Jr - Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, MPP Kitchener-Conestoga - <a shape="rect" href="mailto:mike.harris@pc.ola.org" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mike.harris@pc.ola.org</a> or <span dir="ltr">519-669-2090</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Brian Riddell - MPP Cambridge - <a shape="rect" href="mailto:brian.riddell@pc.ola.org" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">brian.riddell@pc.ola.org</a> or <span dir="ltr">519-650-2770</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Jess Dixon - MPP Kitchener South - <a shape="rect" href="mailto:jess.dixon@pc.ola.org" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jess.dixon@pc.ola.org</a> or <span dir="ltr">519-650-9413</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Will Bouma - MPP Brantford-Brant - <a href="mailto:will.bouma@pc.ola.org">will.bouma@pc.ola.org</a> or <span dir="ltr">(519) 759-0361</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Joseph Racinsky- MPP Wellington-Halton Hills - <a href="mailto:ted.arnott@pc.ola.org">joseph.racinsky@pc.ola.org</a> or <span dir="ltr">(519) 787-5247</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Ernie Hardeman - MPP Oxford - <a href="mailto:ernie.hardeman@pc.ola.org">ernie.hardeman@pc.ola.org</a> or <span dir="ltr">(519) 537-5222</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Matthew Rae - MPP Perth-Wellington - <a href="mailto:matthew.rae@pc.ola.org">matthew.rae@pc.ola.org</a> or <span dir="ltr">(519) 272-0660</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><br clear="none" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Local NDP MPPs:</div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Catherine Fife - MPP Waterloo - <a shape="rect" href="mailto:cfife-qp@ndp.on.ca" class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cfife-qp@ndp.on.ca</a> or <span dir="ltr">519-725-3477</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><br></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Local Green Party MPPs:</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Mike Schreiner - MPP Guelph - <a href="mailto:mschreiner@ola.org" style="text-decoration: none;">mschreiner@ola.or</a>g or <span dir="ltr">(519) 836-4190</span></div><div>Aislinn Clancy - MPP Kitchener Centre - <a href="mailto:aclancy-co@ola.org">aclancy-co@ola.org</a> or 519-579-5460</div><div><br></div><div>Independent MPPs:</div><div>Bobbi Ann Brady - MPP Haldimand-Norfolk - <a href="mailto:babrady-co@ola.org">babrady-co@ola.org</a> or <span dir="ltr">(519) 428-0446</span></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div 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><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700; white-space: nowrap;">Federal Members of Parliament</span></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div 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 class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Local Liberal MPs:</div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Bryan May - MP Cambridge - <span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:bryan.may@parl.gc.ca">bryan.may@parl.gc.ca</a> or (519) 624-7440</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Tim Louis - MP Kitchener-Conestoga - </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:tim.louis@parl.gc.ca">tim.louis@parl.gc.ca</a> or (519) 578-3777</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Valerie Bradford - MP Kitchener-South Hespeler - </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:valerie.bradford@parl.gc.ca">valerie.bradford@parl.gc.ca</a> or (519) 571-5509</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Bardish Chagger - MP Waterloo - <span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:bardish.chagger@parl.gc.ca">bardish.chagger@parl.gc.ca</a> or (519) 746-1573</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Lloyd Longfield - MP Guelph - </span><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:lloyd.longfield@parl.gc.ca">lloyd.longfield@parl.gc.ca</a> or (519) 837-8276</span></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><br></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Local Conservative MPs:</div><div>Michael Chong - MP Wellington-Halton Hills - <a href="mailto:michael.chong@parl.gc.ca">michael.chong@parl.gc.ca</a> or (519) 843-7344</div><div>Larry Brock - MP Brantford-Brant - <a href="mailto:larry.brock@parl.gc.ca">larry.brock@parl.gc.ca</a> or (519) 754-4300</div></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">John Nater - MP Perth-Wellington - <a href="mailto:john.nater@parl.gc.ca">john.nater@parl.gc.ca</a> or (519) 273-1400</div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000"><br></div><div class="ydp9fa07544yiv0892781770ydp8bacb94dyiv1865983000">Local Green Party MPs:</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Mike Morrice - MP Kitchener - <a href="mailto:mike.morrice@parl.gc.ca">mike.morrice@parl.gc.ca</a> or (519) 741-2001</div><div><br></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: 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Network</div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><a href="http://www.gren.ca/">www.gren.ca</a><br></div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div>Phone: <span dir="ltr">(519) 888-0519</span></div></div></div></div></div></font></b></div></div></div></div></div></div><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font size="4"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;"><div><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;">Mobile Phone/WhatsApp: <span dir="ltr">(519) 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