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8 Apr 2023
#protectHighPark #biodiversity
Five years ago, Passover Full Moon would be only light spilling over Grenadier Pond in High Park. Those, calling now Provincially Significant Wetland home, could live less disturbed lives. So could we, people.
Keep city out of TO's remaining nature!
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Strong longitudinal empirical evidence says no.
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How about #overshoot @PikettyWIL?
An #equal #habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Can the “plan for equality and prosperity within planetary boundaries” stop #polycrisis driven #climatebreakdown #collapse?
tinyurl.com/ykxmbp8d
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Jun 12
On Sunday Switzerland votes on a referendum to end mass immigration by capping the population at 10 million.
Would you vote yes to put a cap on Canada's population?
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This 1994 Waterfront Plan so far presented the overall superior vision found on ecosystem approach when the green places are the foundation to be accommodated as opposed the growth.
trcaca.s3.ca-central-1.amazo…
Metropolitan Waterfront Plan, Metropolitan Planning Department,Feb 1994
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Jun 12
The CBC writes a lengthy story about Toronto's Muslim terrorist without using the words Muslim or terrorist.
It takes skill to be that deceptive.
Never forget: the CBC isn't a public broadcaster, it's a state broadcaster.
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/t…
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Jun 12
Yes, this unique habitat was restored from the industrial debris. Nevertheless, it is critical for birds migration together with TI and High Park. Everybody should learn about critical role TO's waterfront plays for N/A bird migration before passing any opinion on BB expansion.
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Jun 12
Calgary completes city wide rezoning pull back. Option chosen is lane houses, secondary suites, medium density on corridors, nodes, and brownfields. This was a result of a political clean sweep of city council.
calgary.ca/planning/projects…
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Jun 10
This might be from the UK but it describes exactly what’s happening in Canada as well.
It’s no coincidence that Canada, the UK & Australia are all undergoing the exact same problems, and the citizens of those countries are being belittled & called names for raising their concerns.
When 3 Governments thousands of km’s away from each other all manage to implement the same destructive mass immigration plan, democracy & sovereignty doesn’t exist.
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#overdevelopment
Does anybody, additionally to developers, believe that this is something good for city future, sustainable under worsening climate/biodiversity crises, liveable and needed? Poor those who end up living in these ghost towers in the middle of urban Sahara.
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Canada just hit a record 120,640 emigrants in 2025 — more people fleeing than ever before. Ontario alone accounted for nearly half.
This is what happens when you import the Third World, tax your citizens into oblivion, destroy housing affordability, and lecture everyone about how ‘diverse’ and ‘progressive’ and ‘gay’ you are.
The post modern liberal experiment is collapsing.
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Jun 11
“A developer who builds the wrong homes, for the wrong price, should bear the financial consequences.
Not only is that fair, it’s the foundation of competition in the housing market”
Great piece in the FP
Jun 11
Opinion: Ontario shouldn't bail out condo developers financialpost.com/opinion/on…
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Jun 9
The desolation of foundational, life-supporting ecosystems has resulted in our planet now operating at roughly half its biological productive capacity.
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2/3 Disturbingly for residents of Canada’s fast-growing big cities, @ubcVSE's John Helliwell and Hugh Shiplett found Vancouver and Toronto were the least happiest places in the country.
Despite the urban benefits.
@CityofVancouver @Toronto #onpoli #bcpoli
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Jun 10
Is higher density making Metro Vancouver residents happier?
Nope!
And not just here.
"Average levels of subjective well-being have been shown to fall as population size and population density increase,” says one UN Happiness study, out of many.
#vanpoli #vanre #bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Could #Switzerland Become the #First Country to #Cap Its #Population?
The Swiss will soon go to the polls for a novel initiative that could upend the nation’s economy and rupture ties with the EU.
newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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"Skipping the avoidance stage and moving directly to minimization/mitigation suggests the federal governmen". It seems you are still confused about the Feds and #CenturyInitiative growth goals @CanadaGray?
Jun 10
The federal government released a Toronto Island Airport replacement survey - The questions aren't what they seem environmentaldefence.ca/2026… #NoJetsTO #cdnpoli
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Prominent Torontonians, as @MargaretAtwood, should be shaken by the big plans of #CenturyInitiative. Consultations do not stop #recklessgrowth plans for TO, ON: centuryinitiative.ca/news/pr…
Press release: New report outlines 10 key actions to ensure long-term prosperity for Canada
Jun 10
28 prominent Torontonians, including Margaret Atwood, David Mirvish and Hayley Wickenheiser, signed a letter demanding the federal government halt any changes to #BillyBishop airport until the city's residents are properly consulted.
Read it here: trib.al/LAorT5Q
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Jun 5
#Study warns #biodiversityloss could trigger wave of #debtcrises
LONDON, June 5 Financial markets are underestimating the economic risks of biodiversity loss, potentially exposing countries to sovereign debt crises and sharply higher borrowing costs.
reuters.com/legal/litigation…,
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"The considerable cost of extra infrastructure to support population growth outweighs the small extent to which this could lessen pension, health-care & aged care burdens. And that is not even including ignored cost of continuing environmental deterioration caused by pop growth"
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SPA's Peter Cook responds to an article on #ageing in the Australian 26/12/2020
"Your newspaper is to be commended for the series of features on population this week. I disagree that we need more fertility incentives to boost the youth of our population. A gradually ageing population is not a cause for panic.
Concerns raised about the dependency ratio are a furphy. In Australia today, there are more people of working age who are not working than there are people over 65.
A recent study by Sustainable Population Australia shows that a reduction in the proportion of people of working age is likely to reduce unemployment & underemployment because the labour market will adjust to the forces of supply & demand & more people will be attracted into the workforce. This is surely beneficial.
The considerable cost of extra infrastructure to support population growth outweighs the small extent to which that same population growth could lessen pension, health-care & aged care burdens.
And that is not even including the often-ignored cost of continuing environmental deterioration caused by population growth."
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Peter has a BA, MA and PhD in communication studies, and was awarded two Canadian Commonwealth Scholarships for post-graduate study at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
He has worked variously as a beekeeper, university lecturer, public policy researcher, digital media project manager and senior executive in the non-profit sector. He's also been involved over many years in environment-related campaigns including uranium mining, nuclear weapons, forests, energy and climate.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested that the reduction in immigration may have been a factor in creating a “technical recession” (two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction) and this was part of a “settling-in” period during a broader economic transformation. Indeed, the GDP was growing as population growth ran amok when Trudeau brought in over one million people in each of 2022 and 2023, exacerbating a housing crisis, homeless crisis, and foodbank crisis, from all of which Canada is still suffering. This only shows what a totally inadequate measure of actual well-being the GDP is when used as a stand-alone metric. Boosting immigration to “grow the economy” is not what Canada needs. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ca…
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