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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 7d

Ontario's proposed criteria for Special Economic Zones leave powers dangerously unchecked environmentaldefence.ca/2025/10/03/o... #onpoli

ON’s Proposed Criteria for Special Economic Zones Leave Powers Dangerously Unchecked - Environmental Defence

Statement By Phil Pothen, Counsel & Ontario Environment Program Manager Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Ontario’s Premier and Cabinet are proposing to keep the...

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 7d

Mid-rise housing makes sense: www.instagram.com/reel/DPWXEMf... #cdnpoli #HomesinCities

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 7d

More data on how the oil and gas industry funds culture wars to keep your eyes off the climate crisis: Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement heated.world/p/fossil-fue... #cdnpoli #grifters

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 8d

Doug Ford’s ‘common-sense conservation’ is a fast track to extinction, experts warn: ricochet.media/climate/doug... #onpoli #species

Doug Ford’s 'common-sense conservation' is a fast track to extinction, experts warn

With Bill 5, the Ontario government has gutted protections for endangered species and wetlands, dismantling decades of work to pave the way for a ‘wild west’ of unchecked development

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 10d

"Chummy corporate socialism": Ontario’s botched Blue Box reform is a showcase for everything wrong with Doug Ford’s Ontario www.thestar.com/opinion/edit... via @torontostar #ONpoli #Plasticpollution

Star Editorial Board: Ontario’s botched Blue Box reform is a showcase for everything wrong with Doug Ford’s Ontario

Ontario's revamped curbside recycling regime has been so watered down it can no longer reasonably be expected to achieve the policy goals for which it was originally designed.

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 14d

Removal of speed cameras is another example of reckless, car-centric attacks on the public: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/26/s... #ONpoli #CarUberAlles

Statement: Removal of Speed Cameras Another Example of Reckless, Car-Centric Policies - Environmental Defence

Statement from Tim Gray, Executive Director Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 15d

Want less garbage on your street and along the highways? Then stop the destruction of the booze deposit-return program and fix Ontario’s Blue Box rules. environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/25/o... #onpoli #plastic

Ontario’s watered-down Blue Box rules won't stop drink container litter, pollution - Environmental Defence

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, WASTE WATCH OTTAWA, ZERO WASTE 4 ZERO BURNING, ONTARIO ZERO WASTE COALITION, CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 15d

Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n... #cdnpoli #cashgrab #grift

Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain

In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the launch of her memoir, former climate minister Catherine McKenna warns consequences are coming for the fossil fuel industry, even as the federal government purs...

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 16d

Because the colour is coming and I love these old pictures from my cousin who travelled around Canada in the 60s and 70s with her camera capturing its beauty. Good go Muriel Dawson. #fall

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 16d

Are provincial parks the next target for Doug Ford's developer friends? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/o... #onpoli #ProtectourParks

Are provincial parks the next target for Doug Ford's developer friends?

The Ford government has introduced changes to the Ontario laws that protect provincial parks, but refuses to disclose what the changes will be.

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 22d

Want something that is protected to be bulldozed? Just hire a lobbyist: Ontario made a protected area smaller. Neighbours have questions: thenarwhal.ca/garden-hill-... #ONpoli #StopSprawl

Ontario opened a protected area in Port Hope to development | The Narwhal

The Doug Ford government shifted the boundaries of a protected area in Port Hope, opening the way for a subdivision to be built there instead

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · 24d

Build Canada Homes Could Help Tackle Affordability - and the Housing Shortage environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/16/s... #cdnpoli #HomesinCities

Build Canada Homes Could Help Tackle Affordability - and the Housing Shortage - Environmental Defence

Environmental Defence is pleased to see the government's "Build Canada Homes" plan, particularly with the plan to acquire and protect existing apartment buildings at risk of demolition of concerted ef...

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Sep 9

Why Highway 413 is NOT Under Construction environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/04/w... #Stopthe413 #onpoli

Why Highway 413 is NOT Under Construction - Environmental Defence

Premier Ford has made yet another non-announcement concerning the start of the proposed Highway 413. In their August 27th press release, the province

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ford’s 407 East bet is a congestion bust www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/05/a... #onpoli #Stopthe413

Ford’s 407 East bet is a congestion bust

Traffic on major highways around Toronto isn’t improving despite promises of gridlock relief from Ontario Premier Doug Ford — and some are questioning the province’s heavy investment in road extension...

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Sep 3

Learn more about the @Fordnation plan to sell of the beaches in Wasaga Beach Provincial Park and to weaken the protection of parks across the province. act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/177179/... #ONpoli #HandsOffWasagaBeach

Webinar: Hands off Wasaga!

Premier Ford is proposing to sell key parts of Ontario's second most-visited Provincial Park for a development scheme. There will be massive, irreversible ecological impact and changes made to the PPC...

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Sep 2

Doug Ford says he's fighting gridlock -- but he won't say how much Highway 413 will cost www.thestar.com/politics/pro... via @torontostar #Stopthe413 #onpoli

Doug Ford says he’s fighting gridlock — but he won’t say how much Highway 413 will cost

The government's silence has raised plenty of questions about the freeway that will cut through farms, environmentally sensitive wetlands and the Greenbelt on a 52-kilometre route from Highway 401 in

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Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health @shiftaction.bsky.social · Aug 25

Amidst another summer of heatwaves, droughts & wildfires, CPPIB made a bizarre decision to profile its investment in an oil & gas company whose business model is fundamentally incompatible with the long-term retirement security of Canadians. #cdnpoli #fossilfuels www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/8/...

As climate-fueled wildfires rage, CPPIB spotlights Canada's largest oil & gas producer — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet

Amidst another summer of heatwaves, droughts and wildfires forcing Canadians to flee their homes, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) made a bizarre decision to profile its investment in ...

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Jul 30

Want to tell @Fordnation and your MPP that Wasaga Beach Provincial Park (and all our parks) belong to us? act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/175349/... #onpoli #HandsOffWasagaBeach

Hands off Wasaga Beach!

Hundreds of thousands of people enjoy these beaches all year round, because these lands belong to the people of Ontario, not wealthy developers. Send a letter to your MPP and the Wasaga Beach City Cou...

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Jul 30

if you dig around a bit online you will not have far to search :)

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Jul 30

We're in our nation building era — let's get it right www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/30/o... #cdnpoli

We're in our nation building era — let's get it right

We must prioritize economic transformation to maintain competitiveness, a high quality of life and environmental integrity in an era dominated by the clean energy revolution.

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ontario’s forest management is falling short on key sustainability test theconversation.com/ontarios-for... #onpoli #forests

Ontario’s forest management is falling short on key sustainability test

A recent study indicates that forest management in Northern Ontario is placing timber harvesting above safeguarding natural environments and compromising animal habitat.

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Jul 28

Your park, your province. Let's stop @Fordnation Plans to Sell 60% of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park Beachfront for Development environmentaldefence.ca/2025/07/28/o... #onpoli #HandsOffWasaga

Ontario Plans to Sell 60% of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park Beachfront for Development - Environmental Defence

The Government of Ontario plans to sell parts of the park worth tens of millions of dollars to developers. This represents almost one third of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park.

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Jul 26

We need this to be stopped by the time it reaches the Legislature in late October: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli #OntarioParks

Ontario plans to sell parts of Wasaga Beach. Environmentalists decry 'awful precedent' | CBC News

The Ontario government’s plan to hand parts of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park over to the local town for tourism development could set an “awful precedent” for other provincially owned parks, environmen...

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Ford government has previously introduced dozens of legislative changes to fast-track resource development and enable the transfer of environmentally protected public land to private interests. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/24/n... #onpoli

Ford to change parks law for Wasaga Beach redevelopment

The Ford government is proposing legislative changes to the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act to remove nearly one-third of the provincial park from protection and transfer the land to th...

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Timothy Gray @canadagray.bsky.social · Jul 24

We need to do the same thing to save Wasaga

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