Lake Ontario Waterkeeper

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Canada’s first successful citizen-led prosecutions under the Fisheries Act centred around leaking landfill sites. From Kingston and Hamilton, Ontario to Moncton, New Brunswick, founding members of the Waterkeeper movement have been instrumental in protecting waterways from toxic leachate. Most of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper’s current landfill research is located in the City of Toronto.

Toronto News: We can pay for Port Lands plan, Waterfront Toronto says – thestar.com

September 8th, 2011

In a challenge to Mayor Rob Ford, Waterfront Toronto’s board chair says the agency will have no problem coming up with the money for flood protection in the Port Lands.Ford cited Waterfront Toronto’s supposed inability to fund the $634 million flood protection project as a main reason council should dismiss its plans for a Port Lands neighbourhood and put the city-owned... (more)

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Doug Ford’s waterfront fantasy meets numbers and facts | Ford Focus | torontolife.com

September 8th, 2011

The buzz-kills over at the Globe and Mail have thrown cold water all over Doug Ford’s plans for the Port Lands. Chief among the paper’s not-so-surprising revelations is that Ford’s plans could very well require “a significantly revised environmental assessment,” which would amount to a major speed bump (read: millions of dollars) for the project. In other words, if... (more)

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New Toronto Port Lands strategy involved private talks with mall operator – The Globe and Mail

September 8th, 2011

Toronto Councillor Doug Ford held private talks with real estate and business leaders and one of the world’s largest mall operators to produce a proposal that will fundamentally change the publicly approved strategy for the eastern Port Lands and put a large retail centre where the mouth of the Don River was supposed to flow. Councillor Ford, the brother of Mayor Rob Ford... (more)

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Doug Ford’s Ferris Wheel idea not so loopy after all – The Globe and Mail

September 8th, 2011

When Doug Ford started talking about a glitzy new project for Toronto’s Port Lands, complete with monorail, mega-mall and giant Ferris Wheel, critics dismissed it as a back-of-the-napkin scheme from a suburban cowboy. It deserves a closer look than that.In the past couple of days, other officials in the administration of Mayor Rob Ford have been fleshing out the... (more)

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Beautiful Toronto Islands offer serenity in the city – The Globe and Mail

September 8th, 2011

The best daily commute I ever had was by row boat on the Toronto Islands. I was about 20 years old and teaching sailing at an island marina. For convenience, I was staying at the Queen City Yacht Club, where my family kept a sailboat. I slept in our equipment locker, which had a cot pushed against one wall. A family friend had lent us a beautiful wooden rowing skiff, of... (more)

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Doug Ford’s tourist-friendly plan for Port Lands faces big challenges – The Globe and Mail

September 8th, 2011

Councillor Doug Ford’s new development scheme for the Port Lands risks a significantly revised environmental assessment, throwing into doubt the promised six-year timeline for his project while potentially adding millions of dollars in additional costs, according to several lawyers familiar with the regulations. Mr. Ford also faces the possibility of an investigation by the... (more)

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A master planner’s vision for Lake Ontario Park – The Globe and Mail

September 8th, 2011

For all the talk that Toronto wants to be New York, the city is sitting on two proposals for public-space projects submitted by Manhattan’s most in-demand design firm: Field Operations. The company behind New York’s hugely successful and transformative High Line project created the master plan for Lake Ontario Park, part of Waterfront Toronto’s redevelopment of the Port... (more)

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Ford vows Port Lands remake within a decade – The Globe and Mail

September 8th, 2011

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is vowing to make his vast makeover of the Port Lands a reality within a decade, saying the city can’t wait a quarter of a century to see redevelopment of the eastern harbour.Lavish conceptual drawings commissioned by a city agency and endorsed by the mayor were made public Tuesday and include the much-anticipated Ferris wheel and mega-mall, as well... (more)

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Opinion: Stick to waterfront plan – thestar.com

September 1st, 2011

Successful redevelopment of an urban waterfront takes a long time. We are now in the tenth year of a 25-year program to revitalize Toronto’s central waterfront — perhaps the largest urban regeneration project in North America. It is a pity that the decade-long federal-provincial-municipal consensus may be shattered just when the project is poised to forge ahead.My... (more)

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Doug Ford’s blurry “backroom vision” – thestar.com

September 1st, 2011

I stopped paying attention to Toronto’s waterfront revitalization a few years ago, but not for the reason you might imagine. I did so because real progress was being made. Finally.I’m paying attention again because a careless city councillor would destroy all the gains, in search of a chintzy, unsustainable, dubious plan conceived behind closed doors:Monorail where... (more)

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