Archive for June, 2010

Policing at the G20: Brian’s Letter to the Mayor

June 30th, 2010 by Brian Iler

David, I want to let you know my concerns regarding the police actions last weekend.

While the police have a difficult job to do, there were clearly decisions as to how policing would be handled at the highest level that demand answers: This is not about individual officers’ misdeeds, although there was ample evidence of those.

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Citizens and the Ontario Municipal Board

June 10th, 2010 by Paula Boutis

Last night I had the pleasure of attending the Sierra Club Peel’s annual celebration, where the Club highlighted the 5th anniversary of the creation of the Greenbelt, and efforts underway to expand the Greenbelt.  As always, planning issues around the Greenbelt, and planning more generally, were a hot button issue.

As part of the provincial government’s raft of important planning initiatives around the time the Greenbelt was introduced, the government also headed the comments and concerns of citizens  and municipalities that the battle to protect spaces and places was being lost by municipalities and their citizens at the Ontario Municipal Board.

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Proposed New Ontario Non-profit Corporations Act

June 9th, 2010 by Brian Iler

On May 12, the Ontario Government released its first draft of legislation to replace the existing Corporations Act, for non-profit corporations. This will affect most non-profits (some are incorporated federally), but will not affect co-operatives (whether non-profit or not).

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