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PPS 2024

New updated content: 2024-11-21 11:07:37 The latest version of the PPS has been published, incorporating changes and revisions based on the several changes to legislation and policies made by the provincial government over the last few years to boost housing supply, often to the detriment of environmental and natural heritage. An analysis of the new PPS will need to be made to identify and assess these impacts locally.

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Paul Johanis November 21, 2024 November 21, 2024

Ontario Bill 185

New updated content: 2024-04-15 08:20:13 Ontario Bill 185 Just this week, the Province has announced yet another omnibus bill to spur more rapid residential construction, walking back some provisions of previous housing bills, bringing back provisions previously dropped in similar earlier bills and other general flailing around to address housing supply. There has been no time to analyze the new Bill more carefully but one provision that stands out is

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Paul Johanis April 15, 2024 September 30, 2024

Ontario Bill 97

New updated content: 2023-04-17 12:18:14 The GA participated in a workshop on the Transportation Master Plan sponsored by POP and led by the FCA. It was held on April 15 at the Jack Purcell Community Centre and was attended by about 40 people. The meeting of the Transportation Committee at which the TMP was to be considered was pushed forward to April 17 from April 20, leaving very little time

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Paul Johanis April 17, 2023 August 30, 2024

A plethora of unsavory bills

With their new majority, the Conservatives unleashed a barrage of new legislation chipping away at representative municipal government and laying siege to the province’s natural heritage, under the subterfuge of more housing, quicker. Bill 109, the More Homes for Everyone Act, 2022 was introduced on March 30, 2022 and received Royal Assent on April 14, 2022. It mostly imposed fixed deadlines for city approvals of planning applications, with fines for

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Erwin Dreessen January 14, 2023 June 24, 2024

Ontario Bill 23

New updated content: 2022-11-21 10:30:13 Bill 23 protest On November 15, the AG participated in a rally organized by the POP group outside City Hall. It was held immediately after the inauguration event of the new City Council and a number of returning and new councillors attended. Overall a good crowd showed up on short notice, with effective speakers and good media coverage. The opposition to this Bill is widespread

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Paul Johanis November 21, 2022 August 30, 2024

Ontario Provincial Elections 2022

From the Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital, April 24 2022 The Ontario provincial election is only 40 days away (June 2, 2022). In Ottawa, it is hardly being talked about, flying under the radar as it were. This likely benefits the incumbent government, a prospect that should deeply concern anyone committed to climate and other environmental action in Ontario. The Ford government has gutted greenspace, weakened environmental oversight and failed

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Erwin Dreessen April 23, 2022 June 24, 2024

Bill 66, Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act

The Ontario government tabled a Bill on December 6, 2018 that would make dozens of amendments to many provincial acts “to stimulate business investment, create good jobs, and make Ontario more competitive by cutting unnecessary regulations”. Included are changes to the Planning Act (Schedule 10) that would enable municipalities to pass “open for business” bylaws that would suspend the application of environmental protection and normal due process (advance notice, right

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Erwin Dreessen January 20, 2019 June 24, 2024

Bill 139 – final stages and implementation

First regulations (December 7, 2017) On December 7, the government posted two proposed regulations under Bill 139 on the EBR registry: EBR 013-1788 — transition provisions EBR 013-1790 — provisions about minimum information requirements for material sent to the tribunal The Ministry’s press release The Hon. Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi’s notice to the community The comment period for these regulations is until January 21, 2018. Proclamation date announced On

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DevAdmin February 27, 2018 June 24, 2024

Reform of the Ontario Municipal Board

First round – June 2016 Discussion paper and Response (Oct – Dec 2016) Province announces its plans for reform (16 May 2017) Bill 139 : Submissions, Committee discussion, passage (10 Aug / 17 Oct / Dec 2017) Bill 139 – final stages and implementation (Dec 2017 – June 2018)

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DevAdmin December 8, 2017 October 7, 2024

Endangered Species regulations

Way back in April 2012, the Ontario government included in its Omnibus Budget Bill (Bill 55) a proposal to amend the Endangered Species Act.  That caused quite a furor and these particular amendments were withdrawn at the end of June. But before the year was out, the Ministry of Natural Resources came out with its alternative strategy:  A thorough re-write of the regulations, part of a wide-ranging initiative to “Modernize

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DevAdmin November 14, 2017 October 7, 2024

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