@CanadaGray

Executive Director at Environmental Defence. Views posted are my own.

 Toronto
environmentaldefence.ca
Joined May 2011
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Will Canada’s Race Towards US-Style Environmental Laws Threaten the Pivot to the EU? linkedin.com/pulse/canadas-r… #cdnpoli #Toxic

Will Canada’s Race Towards US-Style Environmental Laws Threaten the Pivot to the EU?

By Tim Gray, Executive Director, Environmental Defence As the EU-Canada Summit in Montreal on October 29, 30 approaches Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to forge a new “Alliance for the Future” by...

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EXCLUSIVE: The day Premier Doug Ford’s cabinet approved the government’s ill-fated Greenbelt changes, several key figures rubbed shoulders in a private box at a Toronto Maple Leafs game. It's detailed in a previously confidential Integrity Commissioner report on John Mutton.
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@ThetrilliumcaOct 22
Inside the Greenbelt scandal’s lost Leafs game thetrillium.ca:443/news/the-…

Inside the Greenbelt scandal’s lost Leafs game

The day Ford’s cabinet approved the controversial proposal, several key figures mingled in a Leafs ‘box’: previously secret ethics watchdog report

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Fast-tracking projects under Bill C-39 risks ‘irreversible harm,’ top scientists warn /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/politics… #cdnpoli

Fast-tracking projects under Bill C-39 risks ‘irreversible harm,’ top scientists warn

More than 50 Royal Society of Canada fellows urge Ottawa to rethink provisions they say would weaken environmental protections

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Cyclists staged a die-in on Bloor St W at Islington tonight, lying in the road with their bikes in front of a Toronto police line. One sign: "It's not about politics, it's about life or death." October 21 2026 #Toronto #Canada #News
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#NEW: A tense standoff unfolded in Etobicoke Tuesday night, as roughly 100 protesters gathered around construction equipment being used to remove the protected bike lanes along Bloor Street West. bit.ly/4z5Y3GE

Bike lane standoff sends construction crews packing

A tense standoff unfolded in Etobicoke Tuesday night, as roughly 100 protesters gathered around construction equipment.

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David Rider@dmriderOct 20
Important story from Star's @BKennedyStar: The provincial agency responsible for online gambling secretly shelved a research study showing higher-than-expected problem gambling, and schemed how to ensure Ontarians never saw it thestar.com/news/investigati…

Ontario government hid study on rates of problem gambling, internal documents reveal

Records obtained by the Star through Freedom of Information legislation reveal that iGaming Ontario executives were concerned when researchers reported problem gambling rates significantly higher...

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David Piccini’s assistant sent developer’s request to housing minister’s office before land was removed from Greenbelt thetrillium.ca/news/the-tril… via @Thetrilliumca #HandsOfftheGreenbelt #onpoli

David Piccini’s assistant sent developer’s request to housing minister’s office before land was...

Piccini denies having any role in the Ford government’s controversial and short-lived Greenbelt removals

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Mark Carney's Building Canada Strong Act guts environmental laws...and takes us back to the bad old days thestar.com/opinion/contribu… via @torontostar #cdnpoli

Mark Carney’s Building Canada Strong Act puts speed over safety, profits over people and economy...

Bill C-39 will be highly consequential, but not in the way the prime minister has said.

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Don't worry @OilGasCanada you can still hold the country hostage through fact free claims, disinformation and grift. #cdnpoli
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Anthony Smith@SafeStreetsTOOct 19
These 32 #BloodBikes commemorate the 32 people killed on Bloor, Yonge & University in 20-years before bike lanes were built. After bike lanes were installed only one tragic loss of life has occurred in 6-years since 2020. Bike lanes keep EVERYONE save, not only people cycling.
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Cara Stern@carasternOct 14
Is it too much to ask for publishers of articles advocating for cycling routes on secondary roads in Toronto to require their authors to submit a proposed alternative? @RDiManno, is this the sort of secondary route you're thinking as an alternative to the Yonge Street lanes?
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$66 billion of your tax dollars to build a pipeline for the profitable oil industry and to be completed when Asia no longer wants the oil: thehub.ca/podcast/audio/scal… #cdnpoli #grift

‘Scaling the expenditure wall’: Can Canada build its next oil pipeline for less than $66 billion?

Scotia Growth Institute models three possible outcomes for the proposed Pacific Link project

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Construction trucks leaving Bloor and Islington area after being successfully deterred from starting work on removing bike lanes in Toronto by a large protest.
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em@rawdeal7777777Oct 7
Doug’s mess: (That we know about😂) Staples Loblaws Ontario Science Ctr. LCBO Beer store Hospitals Schools LTC Autism Home healthcare Osap Addiction services Ontario place Island airport Private jet Ads Scarborough LRT Licence plates What am i missing? #FordSoldOntario
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Robert Benzie@robertbenzieOct 8
NEW: It’s been three years since the RCMP launched a criminal investigation into Premier Doug Ford’s Greenbelt land swap. A former Ontario attorney general says the Mounties should properly update the public on the status of the probe. thestar.com/politics/provinc…

Three years later, RCMP says investigation into Doug Ford’s Greenbelt scandal is still ‘ongoing’

It has been more than 1,100 days since the Mounties launched their probe into Ford's $8.28-billion land swap on Oct. 10, 2023.

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These are the goons helping @MarkCarney craft and deliver his attack on human health, wildllife and communities: thenarwhal.ca/fossil-fuel-in… #cdnpoli

Inside the web of pro-oil and gas groups shaping Canada’s climate change narrative | The Narwhal

New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out connections between pro-fossil fuel groups working together to influence public opinion

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This attack on health, water, wildlife and communities needs to change: cbc.ca/news/politics/buildin… #cdnpoli

Liberal MP calls for more safeguards in new bill to fast-track development projects | CBC News

A Liberal MP is calling for more guardrails as the Carney government moves to fast-track construction of projects like pipelines, mines and ports with a major piece of legislation currently before...

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TDot Resident@TDotResidentOct 6
GUESS WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF CAREER COLLEGES ONTARIO WHEN THE OSAP SCANDAL HAPPENED?
TDot Resident@TDotResident29 Sep 2025
#ONpoli And McNaughton's wife Kate Bartz also co-founded Ana Poilievre's "Pretty and Smart" company... and she became the Executive Director of Career Colleges Ontario???
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TDot Resident@TDotResidentOct 4
Doug Ford destroyed OSAP by letting “career colleges” blow up the program for their international student immigration scams
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@ThetrilliumcaMay 21
40% of OSAP grants went to private career college students in 2024-25: data thetrillium.ca:443/news/educ…

40% of OSAP grants went to private career college students in 2024-25: data

Data obtained by FOI request shows private career college OSAP recipients received on average over $15K in grants in 2024-25.

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Arrest them: The elephant in the room /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/canada/a… #cdnpoli

The elephant in the room

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province

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