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Article content As part of the province’s omnibus budget bill, a proposed law in its Budget Bill 229 called Schedule 6 calls for amendments to the Conservation Authority Act. In response to the changes, about 30 residents of Huron County protested outside of Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson’s Blyth office. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Thompson responds to Bill 229 protests Back to video Schedule 6 strips conservation authorities the right to govern and protect green space and wetlands as originally intended. Local environmentalists, activist...

by Barry Kent MacKay in Canada, Coexisting with Wildlife on December 16, 2020 Oh, the irony! As regular blog readers may recall, in a decision that ignored science-based advice from top experts, as well as government biologists, the government of Ontario declared the double-crested cormorant a “gamebird,” even though cormorants are virtually inedible. Long established tradition and law has decreed that legal hunting must be based on conservation principles and usage. Ethical hunters eat what they kill, and hunt within limits established to prevent endangering the species. That all got t...

Introduction Developers and landowners should review new or existing permit applications that involve conservation authorities' consent or approval, in the wake of new legislative changes that will affect certain permitting powers and related appeals processes. On November 5, 2020, the Ontario government introduced a number of changes to the  Conservation Authorities Act (the " Act") that will significantly impact the role of conservation authorities when it comes to issuing and appealing permits. These changes were introduced as Schedule 6 to the omnibus bill titled  Bill 229, Protect, Su...

By Constance Scarfield There has been a lot of talk about how Covid-19 might change human behaviour. To my mind, one great concern is the effect all the much needed distancing and masks will have on our children. I watch them in the supermarkets, little tots, two and three years old, walking along side their parents or seated in the trolleys wearing masks, keeping a solid distance from strangers and I worry for them. What we live with early on becomes our normal and the masks have been around long enough to have become a definition of “normal.”  When I made a recent visit to the family f...

December 10, 2020   ·   0 Comments By Sam Odrowski Orangeville Council unanimously passed a resolution at Monday night’s meeting, requesting that the provincial government doesn’t repeal legislation that will take power away from conservation authorities to regulate development. The resolution refers to the removal of Schedule 6 of Bill 229, which provides the Province with the power to order dangerous development projects to proceed against the science-based decisions of conservation authorities. Under the new bill, developers ...