Environment & development law & policy. The Hands off the Greenbelt guy. Brown loyalist🍁🗳️. Tweets aren't advice or statements from my client. he/him
Dawes Rd., Toronto, Ontario
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This isn't rocket science. If we want a clean city, we've got to pay enough in taxes to clean & maintain it thoroughly.
From 2010 to 2023, we refused to pay enough, so Toronto got dirtier.
Now we're FINALLY paying for better cleaning, things are finally get a bit cleaner!
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Agree.
It's neck and neck - for the Mayoralty - and in so many key Toronto City Council. Candidates need your pro-housing, pro-environment, pro-greenbelt vote.
Tell them they'll only get it if they continue Toronto's brand new policy path. 👇
environmentaldefence.ca/2026…
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It's neck and neck - for the Mayoralty - and in so many key Toronto City Council. Candidates need your pro-housing, pro-environment, pro-greenbelt vote.
Tell them they'll only get it if they continue Toronto's brand new policy path. 👇
environmentaldefence.ca/2026…
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I don't get why so many on the left and the right point to ideology being at the heart of the BC results, when the evidence points to "BC NDP made a cynical election call and NDP voters stayed home" as the real factor.
Remember! Polls close today at *8 pm*, an hour BEFORE most shops. Don't get confused.
Go NOW & vote for pro-Greenbelt, pro-midrise, pro-4plex candidates who WONT impose parking.
There are so many CLOSE races where you could be the deciding vote in your municipal election.
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If you're inspired by how decent Brazilians managed to save the Amazon rainforest today, GO VOTE tomorrow to save Ontario's Greenbelt.
OFICIAL: el cantante Bad Bunny se encuentra celebrando la victoria de Lula en Brasil ! 🙌🏻⭐️
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El video no es de Bad Bunny celebrando la victoria de Lula en Brasil, sino de un concierto de Residente en Puerto Rico (dic. 2024) donde el artista disfrutaba entre el público como fan.
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Accelerating RapidTO was one of @EnviroDefence's Big 7 #Toronto Mayoral Election Litmus Test policies last year, & one of the key asks in our supporter letter writing campaign for this budget.
It's great to see @MayorOliviaChow and #tocouncil getting started on implementation.
Motion by @MayorOliviaChow to speed up RapidTO passes! 🥳👏
Thank you Mayor Chow and Councillors for listening to transit users about the need for a more reliable #TTC.
This is a win for the climate, a better TTC, and people power. Congrats to all who spoke up + took action!
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Pitch perfect campaign platform @envirodefence.
All the good things are in here: complete communities! stop sprawl by building in Toronto! retrofit streets for people! tackle income segregation through density bonuses!
It's election day in Ontario.
In Toronto, in so many races, "The Choice is Yours", Greenbelt voters:
Do we continue Toronto's brand new, long-overdue pro-Greenbelt, pro-housing transformation, or return to the old status quo?
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Thank you for pledging to protect the Greenbelt for future generations. It is encouraging to see support outside our 62 municipalities and to know the rest of Ontario sees the value in a healthy countryside.
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Thank you for pledging to protect the Greenbelt. A vibrant, safe city helps prevent urban sprawl and combats climate change. 🥕 #FarmersFeedCities
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‼️Thank you Toronto. 🚰🌳 We appreciate the 62 candidates there who made a Greenbelt pledge to support Council decisions and policies that protect and strengthen farmland, water systems, natural heritage, and complete communities. Truly to protect it for future generations it takes us all. ✅🥕🍎🍁 From your Greenbelt Allies.
The most impactful thing Toronto's Mayor & Council can do is to protect the Greenbelt is add more family-sized homes in its existing neighbourhoods.
They're FINALLY reforming Tornto's laws to make it happen.
Here's how to make sure they keep going:
environmentaldefence.ca/2026…🧵👇
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🦋Ask your candidates if they are one of the 450 that have pledged to support Council decisions and policies that protect and strengthen farmland, water systems, natural heritage, and complete communities? You can see who they are and aren't.... on our website map. greenbeltalliance.ca/sign-th… #share #protectfarmland #protectwater #OntarioGreenbelt #muncipalelection2026
Pressure's on, folks! From Toronto, to Hamilton to Pickering to Waterloo, our environmental progress depends on YOUR vote. Elect council's who'll give TRANSIT priority on your streets, add midrise & 4-plex to existing neighbourhoods, & say NO to sprawl!
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Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin has ordered voting extended nationwide by two hours, until 7pm Brasília time, following a request from President Lula's campaign over reported bus shortages preventing voters from reaching polling stations.
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The vast majority of Canadians no longer consider the United States an ally — except Conservatives:
🔴 LPC: 7%
🟠 NDP: 4%
⚜️ BQ: 5%
🔵 CPC: 54% cultmtl.com/2026/09/vast-maj…
If you're inspired by how decent Brazilians managed to save the Amazon rainforest today, GO VOTE Monday to save Ontario's Greenbelt.
🚨🇧🇷🔥 ¡SAN PABLO ESTALLA DE ALEGRÍA! LOS EDIFICIOS RETUMBAN CON GRITOS Y FESTEJOS POR LULA
¡La euforia se apoderó de San Pablo! Desde las ventanas y balcones de los edificios, vecinos celebraron a los gritos, mientras los fuegos artificiales iluminaron el cielo tras la remontada de Lula sobre Flávio Bolsonaro.
La alegría desbordó las calles y llegó hasta los departamentos. ¡Una noche electrizante para el lulismo y un verdadero baldazo de agua fría para el bolsonarismo!
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Wow. Just wow. Lula wins in Brazil.
This is a victory for decency and the rule of law.
He beat all the polls. My friends are celebrating in Sao Paolo tonight!
⭕️ President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has overtaken Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil's runoff count. With 59.77% of polling stations reporting, Lula has 50.52% of valid votes to Bolsonaro's 49.48%, a lead of about 766,000 votes, according to Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). Stations vary in size, so that share is not the same as the share of votes counted.
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We need to Elon-proof Canada, as best we can. thestar.com/opinion/star-col…
