4,000 more oil and gas wells were just added to Alberta’s orphan well list | The Narwhal Even before the addition, the estimated total costs to properly seal and reclaim orphan oil and gas sites in Alberta was more than $1B

Oil and gas corporations extract all the wealth out of a community, pollute people, the air, and the water while doing it… and then leave the cleanup to taxpayers.

Corporations pushing oil and gas and buying politicians, ‘experts’ and fake grassroots campaigns to do so are literally trying to lock us into a more expensive life.

Energy is everywhere around us. Gathering, storing, and using sunlight should be cheap. They’re making it as expensive as possible.

It would also bring service back to the monuments in the middle of University Avenue that have been stranded away from viewers, because most of them were erected before University was essentially turned into a highway after WWII.

If we pedestrianize half of what is now University Avenue, pedestrianize the space around both old and new City Hall… AND turn Old City Hall into museum?

That would turn part of downtown into something closer to Amsterdam’s Museumplein or even DC’s National Mall.

In 2023, City Council approved a plan to move forward in doing the design and related studies on the park.

It would be good to know how far that has gone.

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Proposals for University Park

In 2022-2023, various organizations around the City presented the idea of University Park. It would convert one of the parallel streets of University Avenue into parkland.

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1860 map of York County

Detail from previous map.

In fact, the green-lined street is so unique that you can see it in detail in this 1860 map.

Detail of 1857 map of Toronto.

In this detail from an 1857 map of the city, you can see that what is now University Avenue is a tree-lined street, running parallel to “Park Lane”

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The History of College Street and University Avenue University Avenue and College Street have obvious scholarly connotations. Although the main landmark where these two streets intersect is a political institution, what once stood at the site gives …

University Avenue used to be called The College Avenue, and was a tree-lined park with hundred year-old trees.

In the 1940s, the trees were ripped out using money from gas taxes. The avenue was widened to prioritize the cars over people.

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A reminder that that majority of people living with disabilities do not own a car.

How do I know this?

Because I did a project on Barn Owls when I was in Grade 3.

Ontario’s Endangered Species Act is dead | The Narwhal Proposed under Bill 5, Ontario’s Species Conservation Act is officially in force, leaving many at-risk plants and animals, like redside dace and barn owls, unprotected

Doug Ford has gutted the Ontario Endangered Species Act.

Among the species now threatened by Doug Ford’s government is the Barn Owl, which as a society we’ve been trying to protect since I was literally in primary school.

For some time now the social sciences have shown that climate denialism goes down when people actually experience weird weather they’ve never had before.

The challenge is how to harness that into action.

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Digital-first services pretend that they’re unable to do some very, very basic things to protect users and consumers. But they’re already doing it. We just need governments to act with morality and ethics, not with bogus corporate talking points.

I’m fully supportive of allowing smaller lots and higher density. If that’s all Bill 98 did, no big whoop.

But this bill eliminates existing green building standards… some of which have been in place for decades… with no replacement.

Great! So you agree!

No offence, but most builders don’t live in buildings they build. They are incentivized to do the bare minimum — even if it means higher costs and greater climate risk for the residents of that building.

Eliminating all green standards doesn’t do that.

The cheapest time to green a building is when it’s built. Anyone who’s ever tried to do a renovation can tell you that.

MLI select is voluntary. The industry’s argument wasn’t against green standards. It was that there’s too many different ones across municipalities.

Ford’s going ahead and eliminating them all. Homeowners will be locked in to higher bills for decades, including on flood and heat issues.

Is there a place to synthesize several local green building standards? Of course! GTHA municipalities face similar issues around heat and flooding and have a similar climate.

But that’s not what this bill does. This bill attempts to eliminate all local green building standards with no replacement.

I’d agree with you if they specifically targeted certain green building requirements.

But the legislation is clear that they want to get rid of *all* of them. Even ones designed to help buildings adapt to a changing climate.

The cheapest time to build green is when you’re actually constructing the building and they more than pay for themselves over time.

Ford has explicitly said he wants to eliminate all of them. That’s bad policy. Bad for future residents. But great for developers who profit from cutting corners.

The province shouldn’t be eliminating local green building standards, period. Not without locally appropriate standards to replace them.

A province-wide building standard is a bad idea for the simple fact that the present (and future) climate of Thunder Bay is different than Brampton’s.

Having a single building code for the entire province is a really, really bad idea.

Why? Because Ontario is huge, and the climate between the various parts of Ontario vary greatly.

We need local environmental standards because the climate of Thunder Bay is VERY different than Brampton’s.

New provincial bill attacks local climate-safe building rules A Greener City for All

Doug Ford’s ‘housing’ bill — Bill 98 — slashes green building standards that ensure that homes are built well.

Slashing green building standards will lock new residents and homeowners into higher bills for decades, not to mention increase the danger they face from more extreme weather.

Triple glazing and green roof requirements both provide insulation to the building. Green roofs also significantly reduce the heat load of buildings.

Also, Bill 98 eliminates the ability to set environmental standards at all, including for reducing emissions and adopting to climate change.

The point of green building standards is to build a structure that lasts. Developers aren't incentivized to do that when they're just going to sell the building afterwards.

Many of the larger builders who are shifting to being rental providers are still building with stronger green standards.

For comparison’s sake, if you are driving in a car 40km/h over the limit, the fine is $280

New Report Shows Fossil Fuel Lobby and Federal Ministers Are Closer Than Ever - Environmental Defence Environmental Defence’s latest report finds fossil fuel lobbyists met with federal officials 986 times in 2025, despite a three-month lull during the

For over a decade, well-meaning policy-makers have insisted that oil and gas corporations be allowed in the decision-making room.

Well, right here in Canada, oil and gas lobbyists have met with federal ministers the equivalent of four times EVERY WORKDAY.

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Today, they make so much money that they only need a fraction of it to buy off politicians and to fund ‘think tanks’ and communications firms that create fake grassroots campaigns.

BP Pulse Chief Leaves as BP Slashes EV Investment and Pivots Back to Oil and Gas BP's Head of EV Charging Has Left the Company — and the Numbers Explain Exactly Why

Fossil fuel companies will never transition away from oil and gas.

Their entire business model relies on the world to be locked into an economy where the only way to get energy is to buy fuel that only they can extract, ship and sell.