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Posted: May 01, 2021 12:36 PM ET | Last Updated: May 1 Retired MPP and environment minister in the ‘90’s who voted against the creation of the Greenbelt will now oversee its development. The Ontario government has appointed a former environment minister to chair the Greenbelt Council in a move that has some environmentalists shaking their heads.  Retired MPP Norm Sterling replaces David Crombie, who resigned as chair with six other members of the council in December to protest proposed government rules that they said would gut environmental protections in Ontario. An NDP MPP and...

The new chair of the Ford government’s Greenbelt Council was Ontario’s environment minister leading up to the Walkerton tragedy, an E. coli outbreak that killed seven people two decades ago. Norm Sterling ⁠— who oversaw cuts to the environment ministry’s budget that were later found to have contributed to what happened in Walkerton ⁠— was a Progressive Conservative environment minister under the Mike Harris government. As an MPP in 2005, he voted against the creation of the Greenbelt. Sterling replaces former chair David Crombie, who resigned along with six others late last yea...

Windmills from the White Pines wind farm in Milford, Ont., on July 19, 2018. The partially built project was previously cancelled by the Ford government. File photo by Cole Burston The Ford government is seeking to deprioritize renewable energy, repealing measures that made it easier to build new green power projects. The proposed changes were embedded in Bill 276, which the government introduced earlier this month, saying it would “help businesses rebound” from the economic fallout of COVID-19. In a posting to Ontario’s environmental registry, the province said it’s “no longer ap...

BBC News By Steven Brocklehurst image captionThe classic Bay City Rollers line-up was Derek Longmuir, Eric Faulkner, Alan Longmuir, Les McKeown and Stuart Wood In September 1975, the Bay City Rollers, headed by Les McKeown, whose death was announced on Thursday, were the biggest pop band in the UK and were about to the hit the United States. The Scottish teen sensations were rolling on towards turning the whole world tartan. "They were adorable. Five cute guys at once. That's the story of rock n roll," says US journalist Danny Fields. "The invention of boy bands became an industry thanks to ...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford (left) stands alongside now-Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney and Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell in June 2018. File photo by Alex Tétreault In the outer reaches of the Greater Toronto Area, plans for a new highway are attracting controversy. On one side are Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives, who are seeking to exempt a decades-old idea from the environmental assessment process, arguing that it’s urgently needed to relieve congestion. Critics, meanwhile, are raising concerns about the highway’s environmental impact ⁠— it would slice through the...