Category: Frugal Crowd
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Celebrate Trees: #TreeDayChat and Break Guinness World Record Tree Hug in Montreal Sept.24, 2014
This video presents Tour Canada’s Boreal Forest | Pew. “Spanning 1.2 billion acres, Canada’s boreal forest is the largest intact forest ecosystem on the planet. This unique environment is home to hundreds of species of migratory fish and birds, and contains carbon-rich soil and permafrost critical to the fight against global warming.“ The City of…
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Rouge National Urban Park Management Plan: Meetings-Sept.16 & 18; Online Survey Until Oct.31 2014
This video presents QP Corneliu Chisu Rouge National Urban Park. “We have tabled a bill in the House recently that would create the Rouge national urban park in the Greater Toronto Area. The park is near 20% of Canada’s population, enabling Canadians to connect with nature, culture and agriculture without having to travel far from…
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Please Protect Our Drinking Water: Petition Premier Wynne to Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump
Ontario Power Generation (OPG), a multi-billion dollar power generation company, is planning to build a nuclear waste dump (a Deep Geological Repository or DGR) 1 km from the shores of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada. This video presents Agenda Plus: Opposing OPG’s Nuclear Waste Plan. Beverly Fernandez of the Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump…
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IdeaSpace: Torontonians Can Now Share Online Ideas and Solutions to Help Shape Toronto’s Future
The City of Toronto recently launched a new online engagement platform called IdeaSpace. It’s a year-long pilot project with the following objectives: increase engagement with Toronto residents; enable residents to connect with City staff; Daniel Fusca: Stakeholder Engagement, City Planning. Jason Diceman: Sr. Public Consultation Coordinator. give Toronto residents the opportunity to share online their…
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Toronto Transit Commission: New, Low-floor Streetcar and Service Changes Starting Aug.31, 2014
This video presents Meet Your New Ride, Toronto! TTC unveils its new streetcar. “On August 31, 2014, the next generation streetcar debuts on Toronto’s streets. The accessible, larger, air conditioned, modern, quiet and sleek streetcar takes to the 510 Spadina line, then all 11 streetcar routes over the next five years” in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.…