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&

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• Flowers with Wings are Butterflies • Photo Gallery • Sound Chip Gallery •

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This page has issues about the struggle to save the
Cawthra Bush.
Dealing with issues relating to forest ecology, group activities, Freedom of Information requests, how the City treats
The Friends of the Cawthra Bush
&
Greater Mississauga Area (FCB)
and the
Cawthra Ratepayers and Residents Association (CRRA)
and our efforts, as well as those who have helped us.

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!!!! ATTENTION !!!!
Due to the on going legal assaults against my person

&
the likelihood that Hazel McCallion supporters
(including her bullies with guns Peel police),
will do everything in their power to destroy me, my reputation and my work since 1994 for the community - it is recommended that you make a copy of this web-site before it is destroyed by Law & Order.

I am sorry to inform you of this but when you take on the Queen of Sprawl
(Hazel McCallion), even if it is at the request the community, she will do all she can to hurt you and no act of evil is out-of-bounds.


Main Table of  Contents

Your Financial Donations are Greatly Appreciated
and Very Much Needed to
Ensure the Survival of the
Friends of the Cawthra Bush
  Important notice!!!!!
If you want to receive notice of both changes to this web-site and events relating to the efforts to save the Cawthra Bush and Mississauga's natural areas,
please send me an e-mail
asking to be put on the notification list or just paste this text to the e-mail.
Since, Hazel McCallion, the Mayor of Mississauga has publicly expressed her concerns about my efforts to inform the public in regards to what is really going on in Mississauga,  bad things have been coming my way.


Up-date on the Transcanada 683 megawatt natural gas-fired power plant
in the town of Halton Hills.

News papers out side of the GTA really get into reporting local events far more than the GTA does.

 



A visit to Toronto's Kensington Market reveals a new use for old cars.


 
 



Beautiful Creatures

Media coverage of my efforts to Rescue Monarch Butterflies,
This time by the Toronto Sun - full page of colour & great pictures!


All hail the flying Monarch



Media coverage of my efforts to Rescue Monarch Butterflies
&
there are pictures from 2006 and 2007 for each day,
so you can see how they develop, as well as the details of their life.
Hope to add video soon.

For
Flowers with Wings
are
Butterflies

 


Due to Bail conditions I am not allowed in Mississauga City hall, but currently
I  am  HUNG  in  City  hall
by local artist - Lauire Kallis but she did not frame me!

Apr.  6 - 2007

The greatest irony is what this show is called!
 


Save Mississauga's Forests
By Therese Gain Taylor - Citizens for Ethical Civic Engagement

An Internet Petition - To the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The hard copy petition has gathered about 2000 signatures including: Dr. Riina Bray, co-author of Report on Public Heath & Urban Sprawl, Marty Collier, Linda Pim, Jeff Laidlaw, authors Trent, Jill and Jesse Frayne, Clayton Ruby and June Callwood.
 


What Will the Next Generation Eat?
Concrete?

Dec.  8 - 2006

What's for dinner when we choose to build houses on our best GTA food lands?
What will the next generation eat?
That was the question repeatedly posed by members of Citizens for Ethical Civic Engagement (CECE) at an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing recently held in Brampton. To dramatize their appeal, a plate, fork, knife and a cement brick was submitted as evidence by environmental justice activist Steven Kaasgaard. ...

What - will - the next generation eat?
 


Voting for Fennell/McCallion Means
Voting for More Sprawl, Less Farmland

Gain Taylor was given party status for the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing, which starts November 14th in Brampton Court on Ray Lawson Boulevard.  Of six parties, she is the only one who has not settled with Peel Region. She hasn’t given up on curbing sprawl and preserving precious farmland, including apple orchards and pumpkin patches enjoyed by so many city dwellers throughout the fall.
 


Excessive Logging - 1/4 Billion Monarchs Die
 In A Single Night

On Jan. 12, 2002, an estimated 250 million monarchs died - an
astounding quarter-billion insects perished in a single night.
Their bodies and wings fluttered to the forest floor,
piling up 2 feet or more in some places.
 


Best Election Sign Ever!
&
it used one of my Monarch butterfly pictures,
{you have to look really close to see that even the butterflies and flowers are singing her praise}.

Nov.  15 - 2006


Her election web-site is here.


Sierra Club Settles For More GTA Sprawl

{
and why McCallion & Fennell should be handed their walking papers}

    Sierra Club of Canada, Peel Region Group, is ignoring gridlock, food security issues, as well as dire predictions about climate change and has settled their appeal to save 6,000 acres of prime farmland in North West Brampton.  "This decision will wreak havoc with the daily lives of GTA residents," charges the group's past conservation chair.

    "With scientists and even economists now raising the alarm bells on our climate crisis how can we afford to ignore this exploitive expansion of the GTA?  Regional councilors approved this amendment unanimously.  For ignoring the daily news, they should all get their walking papers in the upcoming election, especially Susan Fennell and Hazel McCallion," charges Therese Gain Taylor, who was also the past co-chair of the Challenge to Sprawl Campaign for Sierra Club's Ontario Chapter.

    "If the settlement agreement is approved by the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), more of the GTA's precious farmland will be buried under houses.  More victims suffering from respiratory problems will fill the GTA's overburdened hospitals.  More carbon emissions, which Canadians are legally committed by Kyoto to curtail, will be added to our overburdened atmosphere."

    Gain Taylor was given party status for the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) hearing starting November 14th in Brampton.  Of five parties, she is the only one with outstanding issues.  She hasn't given up on the dream of curbing urban sprawl and preserving precious farmland, including apple orchards and pumpkin patches enjoyed by so many city dwellers throughout the fall. 

    "It is vital that we act now to protect our remaining precious farmland.  It is vital now more than ever with the climate crisis that we feed ourselves from local sources.  If our country's largest metropolis cannot feed itself from local sources, we will be a third world country," predicts Taylor.

    Taylor as well as several other founding members of the Peel Region Group was one of the original signatories to the OMB appeal.  Six of seven of those executive committee members also quit the club.

    Taylor resigned in the spring because she questioned the leadership of the regional group, especially how the interim chair was handling the farmland appeal.

    On behalf of the group, Peter Orphanos, along with developers, the City of Brampton, Brampton Brick and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing settled the appeal with the Regional Municipality last Friday.  Full details of the settlement agreement with Sierra Club have not been disclosed.

    While it seems surprising that Sierra Club would settle for more sprawl, "it is not surprising to me," says Taylor.  "This chair doesn't understand the issues, especially the multi-edged, sprawl sword --- air pollution and its affect on our health, gridlock, food security and climate change."

    Taylor, like many American Sierra Club members, including Paul Watson, questioned Sierra Club's policy on massive immigration.  Sierra Club of Canada won't properly address the politically sensitive immigration policy because of a huge donation granted to its American counterpart.

    "In terms of climate change, how much sense does it make to welcome massive numbers of people from more temperate climates to the GTA each year.  Our climate is often very inhospitable.  If we are going to wrestle our carbon emissions to the ground, we've got to become more efficient about keeping bodies comfortable, warm during winter, cool during the dog days of summer, before we welcome the world to our doorstep.  Transportation is also a key carbon problem since Brampton doesn't have a decent public transit system."

- 30 -

Contact: Therese Gain Taylor, Citizens for Ethical Civic Engagement
tmtaylor@idirect.ca

Oct. 31 - 2006.


SPECIAL  ANNOUNCEMENT
Oct. 11  -  2006
This is about something that all amateur naturalists' or those who struggling to save a forest or wetlands, etc., wish for.
To discover something so new it deserves to be
mentioned in a scientific journal or written up in a report.

Click here to view.

In the past I have found the
Jefferson Salamanders, the Fairy shrimp
and the Chimney Building Crayfish, in the Cawthra Bush.
Important, yes but now there is recognition of something more important as it deals with the habitat requirements of Jefferson Salamanders, necessary for designing proper conservation plans.

Natalie Helferty is an amphibian biologist & natural heritage ecologist with expertise regarding the Jefferson Salamander and actively involved in protecting the habitat of this endangered species within the Jefferson forest in Richmond Hill on the Oak Ridges Moraine.  She has written a report for Save the Rouge System Inc. and the City of Toronto, called

Natural Heritage Planning for Amphibians and their Habitats
at
http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/moraine/reports.htm

It is a 71 page report, on page 18 & 19 is reference to what I have both observed and supplied two pictures of, Jefferson Salamanders nesting/denning communally.  On page 60, References, it states;
"Barber, Don. 2000. Friends of the Cawthra Bush. Personal Communication."

It is very rare for a grassroots group to be honoured so but we earned it.
 


Kenneth L. Easton - DVM
Veterinarian Extraordinary - Obituary

Sept. 21 - 2006.

Ken Easton was one of the main Vets who help in the effort and spoke a number of times but no one could stop the grinding effort from City hall to put a end to the Cat shelter, not even the local Ward Councillor David Culham, could find reason in the Mayor's chair.  Ken even diagnosed "Flipper" of the 60's fame problem - Mississauga soot!

Lois Stevens (the "Cat Lady"), writes about Ken;

I first met Ken in the late 80's. He was a quiet spoken gentleman, with great compassion for all animals.

He had many dreams regarding animal welfare and with tenacity he followed them. He spoke with elegance on behalf of animals and he wrote superb letters to politicians to change Bill C-50 in Parliament.

The Veterinarian world will miss you Ken.


Gave a tour of the Cawthra Bush to Cawthra Parks S.S. teachers.


Natalie Helferty
Renowned 
Naturalist
is running for public office in
Richmond Hill.
She has been of great help us on the Cawthra Bush issue.
Below is her message to environmental voters.


To all my friends and supporters of the environment, Yes indeed, I am running for Town Council in Richmond Hill! 

After many years of fighting to protect the Oak Ridges Moraine, forming a consensus to develop a plan for the Greenbelt, and providing many volunteer hours toward improving transportation, infrastructure and planning in Richmond Hill, it's time for me to move from 'advocate' to 'decision-maker'. 

This is a golden opportunity for both myself, and you, as supporters of all my work over the years to 'become the change we want to see', as Ghandi aptly said. 

I've presented The NOAH Project tying biodiversity to climate change with a message of a Vision for Renewal at many conferences over the years. The time is ripe to bring this message into action. Climate change adaptation in the face of rising oil costs is the 'Think Globally' part; now it's time for me to 'Act Locally' as a Councillor! 

I recently presented at The Natural City conference at UofT on the need for 'localization' to support our communities and local business to ensure we have the support system in place to become self-sufficient and economical with our resources as well as to save energy, time and effort for all residents. Life is too short to spend it sitting in gridlock traffic--we need to enjoy our communities and the natural bounty that we've managed to protect here in Richmond Hill. 

Planning for our aging population is imperative, as well as ensuring hope for our youth that we will leave them a better place to live. The past decisions of Council has brought us to where we are today. But, we can do better...we must do better. This is our opportunity to do so! 

It's time to plan for the future, honour the past, while living fully in the present. All life depends on good decisions...and I'm hoping to be the one to help make those future choices to better our world. 

I am stepping out to take the chance to run and make a positive change...but it's a very long interview process to do so. Every resident will be rightly evaluating my ability to lead and respond.

But I can't do it alone...it takes a team. I hope you will join my team and assist in this very fruitful effort to bring a breath of fresh air onto Town Council and to the broader world. Because you know I'll be continuing to educate other leaders, who in turn will make their own decisions in their towns. That is how democracy improves conditions.

So if you can spare some time or some funds toward my campaign, it will be the best investment you can make this year toward our future.

Flyers, signs and displays at town hall meetings cost money. Developers are the main contributors to campaigns and they tend not to be a fan of my activities to protect nature unfortunately. So, it will be up to me and you together as residents and supporters of conservation to make this happen, the way true democracy and accountable leadership should operate .

As Margaret Mead said "Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed citizens to change the world, in fact it is the only thing that ever has." Wise words from a wise woman. We will do it!

Thank you all for your support over the years and your donations.

I look forward to leading this Town and this planet into a wonderful new future for 'all creatures great and small', including us as a part of nature.

Natalie Helferty

The Natural Choice

416-460-2460 Cell if you wish to help out door-knocking and flyers!

natalie@nataliehelferty.ca

Voting day is Monday, November 13, 2006. Don't forget!

For donations: cheques can be made in my name and sent to:

27A - 81 Northern Heights Drive, Richmond Hill, ON L4B 4C9

A separate account has been set up. Receipts over $25 will be issued.

Unfortunately, since this is a municipal election, donation receipts can not be used on your federal income tax. My blessing & knowing you helped nature will be your reward. Bless you & Thank you!

See http://www.nataliehelferty.ca for more information.


The media shows up
Rogers Cable 10 News - First Local.

Aug. 23 - 2006.

To cover the
Monarch Butterfly Rescue
!


Monarch Butterfly
Rescue!

Aug. 7 - 2006.

With their numbers dropping dramatically in the world due to mans destruction of their habitat - all efforts by those who can, are important to save this beautiful butterfly that migrates thousands of miles each year.  A very hard and dangerous trip for a bird incredibly more for such a small insect.

In an effort to aid their survival, I am trying to raise as many as I can to set free in the fall and hope for best - that they make their way south and return to breed in the following year.  Doing what I can.


Will be up-dated almost daily - watch them grow!


Over the years I have become known and respected
as the local expert regarding the Cawthra Bush and City hall.

July 25 - 2006.

As one of goals of the Friends of the Cawthra Bush is to educate the public as to the facts
I have over the years taught classes about the Cawthra Bush in the local schools, gave tours of the forest and set-up our display & made many presentations at both our public meetings as well as others.
Here are just a few examples - with pictures.


My Efforts Rescuing Canada Geese
&
A Certificate of Appreciation
From the Canadian Wildlife Service
.

July 21 - 2006

A Risky & Oily Rescue.

Up Dates to the
Therese Taylor's
Web-page.

July 3 - 2006

Gore's message strikes home - An Inconvenient Truth
As well as other items.


IMPORTANT
Discovery During a
 School Outing.

Jan.  15  -  2006

Students find the snakes and salamanders
that the high paid government consultants
could NOT!


Therese Taylor

Dec.  3  -  2005

A Mississauga environmentalist activist
has become the Conservation Chair for the Peel Region Group - Sierra Club of Canada.

   
There is more about her efforts to - Save Mississauga Forests - and stop the - Highway 401 Expansion In Mississauga.
Her Mississauga News  - Guest Column - May 18, 2005

Preserving nature benefits all of us
 


PRESS RELEASE ­   -   November 30, 2005
Dec. 1  -  2005
List of Scientists and Citizens Calling for a
Steady State Economy
Reaches 1,000 !

                       •       List maintained by the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, Arlington, VA
•       Signatories include renowned scientists and economists
•       Signatures supplemented by endorsements and professional society position statements

    Arlington, VA (November 30, 2005) ­ The one thousandth signature was obtained today on an internet petition maintained by the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, or “CASSE.”  The CASSE petition explains what economic growth is, identifies the major threats posed by economic growth, and calls for the establishment of a steady state economy before the American and global economies exceed the capacity of the environment to support them.  A steady state economy, the petition explains, is achieved when population and consumption are stabilized.  Eventually, the petition states, the American government should lead other nations to develop their own steady state economies.

    The signature list includes prominent scientists such as Wes Jackson, James Karr, and Reed Noss, as well as leading resource economists such as John Loomis, Tom Power, and John Ikerd.  William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel, developers of the “ecological footprint” concept, have signed.  Several conservation organization presidents and past presidents have signed as well, including Brent Blackwelder (Friends of the Earth), Rod Heitschmidt (Society for Range Management), and John Proops (International Society for Ecological Economics).  Doug LaFollette, Wisconsin Secretary of State, is one of several politicians who have signed. Herman Daly - one of the founders of ecological economics - serves on the CASSE Board of Advisors, helped craft the CASSE position, and was one of the first signatories.

    Brian Czech, President of CASSE, says CASSE’s “number one goal is to educate citizens and policy makers of the fundamental conflict between economic growth and environmental protection, economic sustainability, national security and international stability.”  The petition, found at www.steadystate.org, is one of CASSE’s primary educational tools.

    In addition to its signature list, CASSE has a list of endorsements from conservation organizations, and works with professional natural resources societies, such as the Ecological Society of America, to develop their own positions on economic growth.  According to Shannon Pederson, CASSE Public Relations Director, “natural resources professionals will have to take a stance on economic growth.  Otherwise, economic policy is left entirely to economists, corporations, and politicians, all of whom seek to maximize economic growth without understanding the perils.”

The

End  of  Cheap  Oil,
                     June 17  -  2005
means  the  end  of  our  current  economy
&
the  life  style  it  supports,
specifically  the

end  of  the  suburbia  life  style


The  Canadian  documentary
** The  End  of  Suburbia **

Will  be  shown  - Free  Admission
June  29  -  Wed.  -  7 pm
at  the 
Unitarian  Congregation  of  South  Peel
84  South  Service  Rd.  (just  east  of  Hurontario  Str.)


and  presenting  the  model  for  a   New  Urban  Development  Economy   and  Continuous  Communities,
that  can  deal  with  many  of  the  problems  coming  our  way.

A  must  see  for  anyone  under  30!

To  discover  the  more  please  visit
 www.cawthra-bush.org/End_of_Suburbia_&_Mississauga.html

If you or (hopefully) a group would like to view the documentary
                     June 10  -  2005
The End  of  Suburbia
and discover how the Canadian,
if not the world, economy that is geared to the
suburbia life style, that will soon be coming to an end
,
then please contact us .


Does it mean the end to places like Mississauga?

Another victory !
                     June 10  -  2005
The proposed  Natural Gas Power Plant in the Cawthra area
will not go ahead!
BUT one very close by is still planed - what is it (or who) about Mississauga that said dump on us?


Even the
Globe and Mail is warning us that using
Natural gas to generate our electricity is unwise

                     May 29  -  2005
"Imagine the premier of Ontario explaining to voters that the province can't build a Kyoto friendly gas plant to replace the doomed coal burners because Alberta needs the clean fuel to make oil for American SUVs."

French draining of a wetlands by an underground large pipe
                     May 19  -  2005
Draining the Cawthra wetlands & surrounding community towards
the C.N. Rail road tracks
as noted in the Culham Brief


The Bob Hunter Tribute Book

&
Memorial to Community Heroes & Eco-Warriors

                     May 17  -  2005

This section of web-pages is set-up to HONOUR those who stood while most sat down,
they spoke reason while most were silent,

in defense of all our human rights & the environment.


Click here to open this book of remembrance.


"The End  of  Suburbia" and the economy that supports it
&
The Solution to it
A  New  Urban  Development Economy

                     May 17  -  2005

**** CONTINUOUS COMMUNITIES ****
 
Tired of hearing about all the environmental doom and gloom (Click here), with little to nothing you can do about it? 
Now there is a plan to solve most of the problems.

!!!!!!! It is also about JOBS FOR LIFE !!!!!!!

Main stream media is now loudly warning us that this is to be taken VERY seriously!


The Applewood Ratepayers
                     May 17  -  2005

are fighting the planned EPCOR Natural gas power plant
that puts the Cawthra Bush right in the environmental study area.
Visit their web-site and help out if you can.

Citizens against EPCOR in Mississauga
http://www.againstEPCOR.com

More about what the Friends of the Cawthra Bush are doing to help.


Will Ontario government plans to use it for power generation
endanger supplies
, create shortages & drive  prices  up?

                     May 17  -  2005
???? Will it lead to drilling in the Arctic ????

The letter to Tim Peterson MPP about Natural gas supplies.


Secret  Security  Program  Memo

                     Oct.  31  -  2004
Canadians say this does not happen in Canada
well, here is proof that even Canadian Cities do it.
YES,
Canadian politicians can be secretly out to get you
or a group that opposes them.

SABRINA
the Northern Flying-Squirrel
Fights to Stay in Canada.
                     Oct. 15  -  2004

Ontario Municipal Board
&
The Culham Brief
                     Oct. 8  -  2004
Questions of Conflict of Interest & Bias in an
  Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) precedent - setting Hearing.

      Do you want to legalize Scandalous or Corrupt conduct
                  in the government of Ontario?

  Or are you SICK of Scandal and Injustice at taxpayers expense?
NOW you can help taxpayers
To hold bureaucrats accountable
Before they do the same Injustice to YOU.

         We need you to judge, those who would judge us!
If you do not stand up for the rights of others - then you will surely lose yours!


Other Ontarian's letters about OMB members.
SHOCKING  -  SHAMEFUL

!!!! NEW DEVELOPMENT !!!!!
July 5  -  2004
What could be Therese's last E-mail and when you read it, can you feel the Despair & Broken Heartiness she feels, while making what could be her finial attempt at finding support for this just cause?

As Canadians we own it to her and our Democracy, to carry on and E-mail all those we could help and contact the media, to encourage them to report this.  This that should not be allowed!

It was communicated to Therese that it is the Mayor - Hazel McCallion - that is telling the developer to unleash the legal dogs upon those who exercise their Democratic rights and express their feeling about how a developer is conducting their business in Mississauga.
"Longo told me that they (I assumed he meant the landowner, Fitzwood) had received a call from the Mayor's office to say that the emails had to stop."
If nothing else it proves that the E-mail campaign is having the desired effect and
should be increased.


When is a deal to save rare trees - not a deal?
June 20  -  2004
When it is made in the Mississauga, ruled by the Queen of Urban sprawl!
You should read this and be shocked how honest people
who try and work within the system,
for the good of the community can get so

badly deceived and screwed, while trying to do the right thing.

Legal Loophole Drives Sewer Through Tree Preservation Area
[ Another story first made public on this Web-site! ]


The Draining of the
Cawthra (Bush) Wetlands
by a Very Large
Watermain Trench
June 20  -  2004

The
Culham Trail becomes the Culham Creek
and a fine place to canoe!
June 20  -  2004
For years the Culham Trail would has sections of it wash out and have to be replaced, a great taxpayers expense.  The City took no notice from those who brought this to their attention, so in 1997 we observe that the Culham Trail had washed out and decided to do something about it.
The Mississauga City Council - Mar. 31-04 - Meeting
The re-Zoning from HELL!
Apr. 26  -  2004
I addressed this Council meeting as the City wished to approve zoning for the
Cawthra Bush that was very wrong indeed.  It included;
*   Allowing for a commercial school or academy for the performing arts, within 200 feet of the only breeding pond for Jefferson Salamanders,
a threaten species
(for both Ontario and Canada)  likley left in Mississauga and maybe the Region of Peel.
*  Not providing all the documents to the Credit Valley Conservation involved in this matter.
*   Not involving the Ministry of Natural Resources MNR, as there was a threatened species on site.
*   Stating the City's intends to fill-in the wells in the Cawthra Bush that have been used to measure water table levels.
*   The City Planner refuses to provide the documents regarding this zoning even I stood right in front of her at the Planning counter,
contrary to the City posted notice.

*****************************
Just to note a few things wrong with this zoning process.
The meeting itself was even worse!

In fact the Mayor even told the Ward Councillor not to speak!
&
More here.

Lists of Elected Officals - over the years for;
Apr. 24  -  2004
  Streetsville                 Township  of  Toronto

Town of Mississauga         City Of Mississauga


The Ontario Vernal Pool Association

Apr. 14  -  2004
The purpose of this website is to raise awareness about the significance of vernal pool ecosystems and their associated wildlife to the people of Ontario.  Vernal pools are important because of their contribution to groundwater recharge, flood attenuation, maintenance of water quality, as habitat for species at risk, and to the preservation of biological diversity and ecological integrity.
The Positive Benefits of Urban and Forest

in General to the Surrounding
Human Community
Apr. 14  -  2004
Including; Medical Benefits (just looking at a forest can improve your health and help heal you!), Real Estate Values & Trees or Forests, Urban Hydrology,  Local Economic Development, Trees as Religious Symbols, Psychological, The Sensory Dimensions of Trees
and other interesting effects.


DEATH'S BOUNTIFUL BANQUET
Apr. 14  -  2004

The Negative Impacts on the Environment by

Human and Urban Development
Apr. 12  -  2004
A listing of material sent regarding the request for studies, documents etc., that in some way referred to the negative impacts of human urban development on the natural environment. 
The City is again trying to  inappropriately Rezone the Cawthra Bush

&
decommission or destroy Cawthra's wells
Mar. 25  -  2004
Which are a important tool for measuring
the local water table or studying the hydrology.
Also proof the City is deceving us
when it says it will do a
"detailed inventory of herptile population and continued seasonal monitoring of population levels,"


Ontario Municipal Board - OMB
Feb. 29  -  2004
Code of Conduct, Public Complaints Policy
And Member Position Description

D.J. Culham  the  OMB  Member
(Ex-City of Mississauga Councillor)
who heard the Northmount case
is in a Conflict of Interest or has a Bias as the judge for this matter.
Feb. 21  -  2004
This my letter to the Ontario Municipal Board
about this issue and it will be followed up with a far more detailed one.
Of all the people who could have heard this matter
he was the absolutely the worse choice
AND
when you read the full list of reasons, you will likely agree.
But then the Mayor was acting like the fix was already in and when it come to her getting her way, the law is not a barrier.
For more on the McCallion methods, here & here.

Mississauga News - Letter to Editor  -  Feb. 11-04
Feb. 21  -  2004
It notes two old friends meeting again - Paul Szabo and David Culham
and poses the question it is a good business decision on the part of the City to eliminate "mature" communities, as it will profit greatly
but should the City be treating our homes and communities as its assets?

Moldenhauer Development's plans show
Feb. 21  -  2004
THE  CHILDREN  ARE  TO  PLAY
BESIDE  THE  GARBAGE!

We are being told that these townhouses will be high class and quality
but how could that be, given the facts?


Jan. 12th,  City Planning Meeting Minutes

Feb. 21  -  2004
READ - How the Mayor plays Silly Bugger
and claims the City's environmental committee all resigned because of me!

Does our Mayor know the Fix Is In at the Ontario Municipal Broad (OMB)?
An important sound clip!!

So speaks the Queen of Urban Sprawl, another sound clip there.

The Mayor lets the cat out of the bag as to how the City is going to get rid of established "mature" communities' ( here  &  here ), that are not earning the City enough money and have no one important, to the City, in them.
It called - RUNNING THE CITY LIKE A BUSINESS -
and what the Mayor is all about.


The Great Irony in all this is, the Friends of the Cawthra Bush got started as the City wanted to cut down the
"mature"
Trees in the Cawthra Bush (then the rest of the City),

to make money for the City coffers.
Now we are trying to save peoples homes & property in
"mature" Communities,  from being treated the same way,
by the City's axe lady!
Is there no end the Queen of Urban Sprawl's mad lust for money?


Feb. 4th,  Public meeting
Feb. 18  -  2004
told by way of pictures.
The Mayor comes out and tells us how it is going to be.
Developers matter more to the City then taxpayers, the community they work so hard to create or the Cawthra Bush.
Homeowners & Taxpayers shout back you are not listening to us!!!

Paul Szabo
Jan. 29  - 2004
The Member of Parliament for Mississauga South,
has written 2 letters in our support
and
that noted how unjustly we have been treated.
His Jan. 12th letter    -    His Jan. 27th letter
Read on to find out the full extent of his assistance!

The January Newsletter
Jan. 29  - 2004
about how the City is still out to ELIMINATED
both the Northmount community & the Cawthra Bush.

Notice of meetings
&
Petition


Is the City's latest notice of a public meeting

Jan. 29  - 2004
sounding a bit like a thinly veiled THREAT?

Your community is to be
ELIMINATED
by order of City Council, says developer.
Dec. 1  - 2003
****   IMPORTANT MEETING   ****
DEC. 9  -  TUESDAY  -  7:00 pm
CITY  HALL  -  2TH FLOOR  -  OMB HEARING ROOM

CANCELLED AT THE LAST MINUTE BY THE CITY
&
NOW - THERE WILL BE A CITY MEETING JAN. 12-04
&
OMB MEETING FEB. 9-04  -  DETAILS TO FOLLOW......

Call the OMB planner Katherine Kirzati 416 326-6796 for more details.
and get a-load of these quotes!


Unlawful methods
Dec. 1  - 2003
being used by the City of Mississauga
to endanger a Provincially Significant Wetland Complex, habitat for the Jefferson Salamander and eliminate the community that has protected it.
INDEX OF THE
Nov.  23  - 2003
NORTHMOUNT COMMUNITY
ELIMINATION - DEVELOPMENT
&
Northmount Rezoning Maps

This section will detail items relating to the Northmount Ave., rezoning, zoning in that area, in general and how it will, in time, eliminate the existing existing human community and the Cawthra Bush.


Official Plan Amendment and Rezoning Applications
&
Ontario Municipal Board Appeal

Nov.  17  - 2003
Two meetings are coming up Nov. 20 & Dec. 8/03
Your help in attending and speaking up, that the developer plans are far too much for the Cawthra community and will lead to more and more
townhouse subdivisions bombs being dropped.
This will destroy the Cawthra Bush!!!
Please contact me if you can help, in any way.

The City claims to be against this but without public out-cry little will change, we can make a difference.


Sound Chip Gallery
for the
Cawthra Bush Web-site

Nov.  17  - 2003
Now all the sound clicks are one page and links to documents
but not all that explain them.
You still have surf around a bit.

A-R-I-S
Nov.  8  - 2003
One of the most closely guarded secrets in Mississauga City Hall.
The City's computerized file management system.
The key to all the City's files and its politicians & staff's dirty secrets.
What's more - This method can be used at almost any government office to access its file!

ORDER
Nov.  7  - 2003
M-716  -  M-870  - M-947MO-1497  - MO-1519

Important or key IPC Orders.  That have been posted for a while but due to a space in their file names some were showing as a broken link - that no one told me about.


SPECIAL  ANNOUNCEMENT
Nov. 6  - 2003
This is about something that all amateur naturalists' or those who struggling to save a forest or wetlands, etc., wish for.
To discover something so new it deserves to be
mentioned in a scientific journal or written up in a report.
In the past I have found the
Jefferson Salamanders, the Fairy shrimp
and the Chimney Building Crayfish, in the Cawthra Bush.
Important, yes but now there is recognition of something more important as it deals with the habitat requirements of Jefferson Salamanders, necessary for designing proper conservation plans.

Natalie Helferty is an amphibian biologist & natural heritage ecologist with expertise regarding the Jefferson Salamander and actively involved in protecting the habitat of this endangered species within the Jefferson forest in Richmond Hill on the Oak Ridges Moraine.  She has written a report for Save the Rouge System Inc. and the City of Toronto, called

Natural Heritage Planning for Amphibians and their Habitats
at
http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/moraine/reports.htm

It is a 71 page report, on page 18 & 19 is reference to what I have both observed and supplied two pictures of, Jefferson Salamanders nesting/denning communally.  On page 60, References, it states
"Barber, Don. 2000. Friends of the Cawthra Bush. Personal Communication."
It is very rare for a grassroots group to be honoured so but we earned it.


INVESTIGATION  REPORT  I95-091M

Nov. 6  - 2003
I Caught the Mayor, Hazel McCallion red-handed with my
"personal information", that is a No-No
& the IPC ruled against the City.

INVESTIGATION  REPORT  I94-045M
I Caught City of Mississauga red-handed with my "personal information"
& the IPC ruled against the City.

I was winning this struggle but it only made the City fight dirty


The
Canadian  Environmental  Law  Association
(CELA)
Nov. 6  - 2003
Made a submission on our behalf and how sweet it is to have the written opinion of a lawyer regarding the claims (or as I would say lies!), by the City of Mississauga.  This is not the only time a lawyer has explained why the City was in the wrong or
the Information and Privacy Commissioner Office but it is in writing.

"We submit that this claim, on the part of the City,
lacks credibility."


A BIG & SERIOUS
Compliance Complaint against the City of Mississauga

Nov. 6  - 2003
"personal information" was inappropriately Broadcast
to all City staff, Blacklisting me from getting services at City hall.
Including talking to an elected official!
The City's FOI Co-ordinator claims the
Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario
ordered her to do it.
Or was it the Devil???
Or was it Hazel McCallion???

A
Compliance Complaint Against
Region of Peel
Ministry of Natural Resources
&
City of  Mississauga
Nov. 6  - 2003
The Region of Peel and the Ministry of Natural Resour