Tag: jim bradley

  • Community Fund to Protect & Restore Ontario’s Great Lakes: Apply Now, July 24-Oct.12, 2012

    This video presents “Incredible by Any Measure… the Great Lakes”: The Nature Conservancy shows the importance of protecting and restoring the world’s largest freshwater system: Did you know that Ontario’s Great Lakes form the longest freshwater coastline in the world stretching more than 11,000 kilometres? In appreciation of these marvelously vital ecological resources, the provincial…

  • Ontario Gives Green Light to Link Three Cities Via the Waterloo Rapid Transit

    This video gives a detailed explanation of the Waterloo Rapid Transit Plan: On May 17, 2012, Jim Bradley the Minister of the Environment signed the “MINISTER’S NOTICE TO PROCEED WITH TRANSIT PROJECT” (Ontario Regulation 231108; SUBSECTION 12(l)(a)) allowing the Regional Municipality of Waterloo to proceed with the  Rapid Transit Project, in accordance with the applicable…

  • Ontario Returned All Forest Fire Evacuees Back to Their Homes

    This is an update to my previous blog: Forest Fire Evacuees of the Mishkeegogamang First Nation are the First to Come Home. Although on August 3, 2011, there were 135 active forest fires in northwstern Ontario, all communities affected by the recent forest fires have been deemed safe as Ontario returned all displaced residents back…

  • Emergency Medical Assistance Team Aids Forest Fire Evacuation From Northwestern Ontario

    2,730 people were evacuated from communities threatened by more than 100 forest fires in Northwestern Ontario. Yesterday, the evacuees were arriving at Lester B. Pearson International Airport in Toronto from Thunder Bay enroute to host communities across Southern Ontario. A media centre was being set up at the Lester B. Pearson International to provide information…

  • Forest Fires Force First Nations Community of Deer Lake To Evacuate

    Now, unfortunately forest fires are burning 3.5 kilometres from Deer Lake, a remote northwest Ontario community in Canada. The Deer Lake Band Council of the First Nations Community of Deer Lake is requesting help from Ontario to evacuate approximately 480 Deer Lake residents who will be immediately airlifted by Canadian Forces aircraft to Greenstone, Ontario.…

  • BIG BECKY Boring Phase is Now Completed for the Niagara Tunnel Project

    How awesome! The most incredible boring story in the world is the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM)  in the Niagara Tunnel Project which started in 2005 and will be completed in 2013. The hot headline in the news is that the boring (excavation) has stopped in the Niagara Tunnel yesterday, May 13, 2011: “The TBM affectionately…

  • Proposed Earlier Retirement At 60 for Salaried Firefighters of Ontario

    On March 10, 2011, a motion calling on the government to allow mandatory retirement at age 60 be applied only to salaried firefighters who respond to emergency calls. This motion was unanimously passed in the Legislature. What are the implications for Ontario’s salaried firefighters if the legislation is passed, allowing mandatory retirement at age 60?