With some 300 co‑ops on our client list, every year at Iler Campbell is a year of co‑operatives. However, the UN’s designation of 2012 as the International Year of Co‑operatives makes this year special. To mark this occasion, we stepping up our efforts to know and serve the housing co‑op sector in particular.
And in fact, we’re stepping out!
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We’ve joined millions of Canadians to speak out in defence of two core Canadian values: Nature and Democracy.
Our land, water and climate are all threatened by the latest federal budget. Proposes changes in the budget bill will weaken environmental laws and silence the voices of those who seek to defend them.
On June 4th, we will black out our website and blog in support of the Black Out Speak Out campaign.
Be sure to visit the campain website to learn about what this bill will mean if it’s passed.
If you’ve been following our blog you’ll already have read about a number of the issues including how changes to the Income Tax Act will restrict charities’ political activities, and how proposed changes to fish habitat provisions of the Fisheries Act will impact fish species.
Please join us in supporting this campaign.
Laura Bowman wrote our Pro Bono column on rabble.ca this month. In it, she discusses access to environmental information:
For citizens and NGOs who want to challenge environmental decisions, the biggest obstacle is usually obtaining information about the potential environmental effects of a decision or project. In the 1990s, the Ontario government passed the Environmental Bill of Rights which was supposed to make access to environmental information easier.
The Toronto Cyclists Union released a legal opinion (pdf) by Laura Bowman today which outlines the case that the City of Toronto must conduct a Schedule C Environmental Assessment in order to remove the Jarvis Street bike lanes and re-install the centre reversible lane. The bike lanes have been slated to be removed this summer.
In an article on spacingtoronto.ca, Mathew Blackett praises the action, writing, “instead of the typical cycling activist action of taking over an intersection and holding bikes high overhead to piss off drivers, the Union is taking the game to the City.”
The Union has given the city ten days to respond after which they will submit their request to the Minister of the Environment.
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve joined forces with rabble.ca to write a new monthly column called Pro Bono.
In our first entry, Paula Boutis writes about the March 8, 2012 NDP motion which expands the investigative powers of Elections Canada in response to the “robocall” scandal. The motion passed unanimously. Paula explains what this will mean.
In the current issue of the Ontario Bar Association’s ENVIRONEWS, Paula Boutis and David McRobert describe their recent application to the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario that advocates for legislation mandating funding for participants and intervenors in various statutory hearing processes. The law would improve on similar legislation that existed in Ontario from 1988 to 1996. We previously wrote about this here and here.
David McRobert is co-author of another article (pdf) in the issue. He and Tyler Edwards consider whether an over-emphasis on recycling – to the detriment of reducing and reusing – has contributed to the waste management and broader societal problems that we are facing today.
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