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Ontario Premier Doug Ford has acknowledged mistakes were made in deciding to remove 7,400 acres of protected land from the Greenbelt, in the wake of a blistering report from the province’s auditor general investigating his government’s handling of the whole affair. Speaking after the report — which said developers with …
Read More »Leeds Township man discovers contamination after purchasing land – Kingston
Descrease article font size Increase article font size When Greg Hayes bought a property in Leeds Township, Ont., he had every intention of injecting some time and money into it “Well, I figured I’d put another hundred thousand in the house to fix it up,” Hayes said. What he wasn’t …
Read More »Ontario judge grants another permanent injunction in 2 year land dispute
More than two years after a group of Indigenous demonstrators started occupying a proposed development site in southwestern Ontario, a provincial court has again granted an injunction permanently barring them from the land. In a written decision released this week, Justice Paul Sweeny of the Ontario Superior Court said Skyler …
Read More »Sask. farmers, researchers worry investor-bought land ’empties out the countryside’
As Terry Boehm sits on a tractor-powered snowblower on a cold winter day and clears a path to his shop, the grain and seed producer thinks about a more important path: the one his town and its young farmers will travel moving forward. Boehm comes from a long line of farmers near Colonsay, …
Read More »Ontario just got 14,000 hectares of land to develop — so why does Doug Ford want the Greenbelt too?
On the same day the government of Premier Doug Ford said it wants to open up parts of Ontario’s Greenbelt for housing construction, it also approved more than 14,000 hectares of land for urban development in municipalities in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Put together, the newly approved urban land …
Read More »Who are the GTA developers set to benefit from Ford government’s Greenbelt land swap?
Several well-established developers are among the owners of the 15 parcels of land the Ford government is proposing to open up for housing in the protected Greenbelt in the Greater Toronto Area, a CBC Toronto analysis of dozens of land registry and corporate records has found. The Ontario government announced …
Read More »City pays $3.1M for additional land near WinSport for future park
A recently released document shows the City of Calgary has paid two people $3.1 million for land that will be added to its planned Paskapoo Slopes park. That park is to be just east of WinSport and south of the new Trinity Hills residential/commercial development along the Trans-Canada Highway. When city …
Read More »No new equipment or land for a few years, say farmers hit by interest rate hike
Farmers are used to keeping an eye on the weather and their fields, but now they’re also watching the Bank of Canada after it raised its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point in an attempt to fight runaway inflation. “It’s made for a challenging year, especially with paying off …
Read More »No land? No loan. Why it can be hard to borrow money from a bank if you live on reserve
LouAnn Solway’s love of ranching runs deep. She grew up on Siksika First Nation, about 100 kilometres east of Calgary, and learned how to care for cattle from her father and grandfather. “I was always supposed to be around cattle, feeding them, watering them and fixin’ fences and, you know, making …
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