This page has not only the newest and past NEWS FLASHES, MEDIA RELEASES but also has ANNOUNCEMENTS and GENERAL NOTICES.
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.
The Main Index or Most Current Postings
Do not forget to check out my
YouTube site
where my videos are posted.
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.
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Your Financial Donations are Greatly Appreciated and Very Much Needed to Ensure the Survival of the Friends of the Cawthra Bush |
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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.
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The general Monarch
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June 24, 2013 |
For years I have said that because of my work in the community for peoples Democratic Rights and the Environment, which put me at odds with Hazel McCallion and her friends with guns, that it is legal to commit crime against me. Well here is the proof, that few could deny. A video that tell the story of how I was sent to prison for some 12 days, no call to lawyer and why? Because a neighbour presented a pack of lies to get me arrested. I have no reason to expect the Peel police to do the right thing and properly investigate BUT the Crown once they were shown the video would not totally withdraw the charges. That is right - the Crown is shown a video that proves the so-called victim and her husband are making false statements, assaulting me, threatening me and trying to destroy evidence - still they will not charge the accusers or withdraw the charges without me signing a Peace Bond. The Crown will withdraw all charges but I have to sign Pease Bond - why? Innocent people do not have to sign Peace Bonds - to do so implies they were in the wrong - totally misleading and puts me a further risk from people who are know to lie to police to get what they want & know their lies are welcome. The
legal way to attack your neighbours, I know this video is long on talking and short
on the video of the actual events but not easy for me to do better
right now |
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A case of election O-Z or they fooling us again? My letter about the cancelling (maybe) of the Sherway Power Plant which is currently under construction. |
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Sept. 16, 2011 |
My picture to mark the passing of Jack Layton - NDP -  |
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Sept. 19, 2010 |
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Point Pelee
National Park More importantly was able to
get the data that has been collected over the years regarding
Monarch Butterfly migration. |
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May 27, 2010 |
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Bernice Inman-Emery
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the Bird Lady of Mississauga She was one of the pioneers in Canadian of the environmental & animals rights movement who carried on the work of Roy Ivor, internationally known for his work with understanding and healing birds. His work was published in National Geographic - Seeing Birds as Real Personalities. Because he lived with birds he came to see them not as some biological machine drive by instinct but as living creatures that not only could learn, they showed a range of emotions, like a sense of humor. He and Bernice were best know for showing that tender loving care does heal and that even if an animal could not return to the wild, it could share their home. After the fire in 1970, that destroyed his home and most of the birds in his care, Mr. Ivor at age 90, was giving up. If it were not for the efforts of Bernice and others in the community that would have happened. Since that time Bernice played a more centre stage role of running the sanctuary and carrying on the work after Roy Ivor’s death in 1979. The Bird Sanctuary has run about 75 years and if the community wills it - it could go past 100. Efforts are being made to try and get the City of Mississauga to work with the Toronto Wildlife centre to keep the Roy Ivor’s dream of a Bird - Wildlife Sanctuary alive, to show the current and future generations that we do care and did make right environmental choices. Part of the effort to make sure this proud chapter in Canadian/Mississaugan history does not become just dust on the wind, is to find and retype all the news articles (and there are many), to not only file on-line, in our libraries but to try and use them support the case for awards, for Bernice and her life time of achievements to be property recognized. Please come out to meet others in the community who share your concerns for nature and wildlife and to show your respects. Feb. 8, Sunday - 1 to 3 pm -
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Scoop -- -- Scoop !!!! City of Mississauga buys Roy Ivor Bird Sanctuary !!!! in So why is the South Peel Naturalists as the City of Mississauga to buy it now? And what is the City saying it is try to buy it in 2009? More on this confusing story here. |
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Anthropomorphic picture of how tax paying Canadians feel when it comes time to deal with their government, to get services they have paid for.  From birthday card by Palm Press - photo by Craig Orsini |
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Historical pictures of old Cooksville (about 1957), and Applewood plaza (1962). |
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Roy Ivor - the Birdman of Erindale & Bernice Inman-Emery - the Bird Lady of Mississauga More about the death of the dream of a Bird Sanctuary in Mississauga, ruled by the Queen of Sprawl. New
evidence of how
important Roy Ivor's gift to Mississauga
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2008
Persons of note who attended the
Monarch release. Events & Projects; |
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!!!! Christiana Hucker brings a dead Cedar back to life !!!! |
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All hail the flying Monarch |
Due to Bail conditions I am not allowed in Mississauga City
hall, but currently
by local artist - Lauire Kallis but she did not frame me!
Apr. 6 - 2007
The greatest irony is what this show is called!
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Save
Mississauga's Forests
An
Internet Petition - To the Legislative
Assembly of Ontario |
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Concrete? Dec. 8 - 2006 What's for dinner when we choose to build houses on our best GTA
food lands? |
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Voting for Fennell/McCallion
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Excessive
Logging - 1/4 Billion Monarchs Die On Jan. 12,
2002, an estimated 250 million monarchs died - an |
Best Election Sign Ever!
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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.
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Sierra Club Settles For More
GTA Sprawl
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
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Oct. 11
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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, calledat 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! 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.
Lois Stevens (the "Cat Lady"), writes about 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 Aug. 23 - 2006.
To cover the
Rogers Cable 10 News - First Local.
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.
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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
My Efforts Rescuing Canada Geese July 21 - 2006
A Risky & Oily Rescue.
Up Dates to the July 3 - 2006
Gore's message strikes home - An
Inconvenient Truth
IMPORTANT
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.
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A
Certificate of Appreciation
From the Canadian Wildlife Service.
Web-page.
As well as other items.
Discovery During a
School Outing.
that the high paid
government consultants
could NOT!
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Dec. 3
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A Mississauga environmentalist activist Her Mississauga News - Guest Column - May 18, 2005 Preserving nature benefits all of us |
PRESS RELEASE - November 30, 2005
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,
&
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
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 !
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
French draining of a wetlands by an underground large pipe
the C.N. Rail road tracks
as noted in the Culham Brief
The Bob Hunter Tribute Book
&
Memorial to Community Heroes & Eco-Warriors
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
**** 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
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
http://www.againstEPCOR.com
More about what the Friends of
the Cawthra Bush are doing to help.
endanger supplies, create shortages & drive prices up?
The
letter to Tim Peterson MPP about Natural gas supplies.
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.
Ontario Municipal Board
&
The Culham Brief
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 !!!!!
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?
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
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Another story first made public
on this Web-site! ]
The Draining of the
Cawthra (Bush) Wetlands
by a Very Large
Watermain Trench
The
Culham Trail becomes the Culham Creek
and a fine place to canoe!
The Mississauga City Council - Mar. 31-04 - Meeting
The re-Zoning from HELL!
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.
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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;
Town
of Mississauga City
Of Mississauga
The
Ontario Vernal Pool Association
The Positive Benefits of Urban and Forest
in General to the Surrounding
Human Community
and other interesting effects.
DEATH'S BOUNTIFUL BANQUET
The Negative Impacts on the Environment by
Human and Urban Development
The City is again trying to inappropriately Rezone the Cawthra Bush
&
decommission or destroy Cawthra's wells
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
both the Northmount community & the Cawthra Bush.
Notice
of meetings
Petition
Is the City's latest notice of a public meeting
Your community is to be
ELIMINATED
by order of City Council, says developer.
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
to endanger a Provincially Significant Wetland Complex, habitat for the Jefferson Salamander and eliminate the community that has protected it.
INDEX OF THE
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
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
but not all that explain them.
You still have surf around a bit.
A-R-I-S
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
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
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 a
n 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, calledat
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
"personal information", that is a No-No
& the IPC ruled against the City.
INVESTIGATION REPORT I94-045M
& 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)
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
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
Have been caught forwarding my FOI requests to the
City of Mississauga.
I say it is improper and is the City running a unlawful personal information bank that tracks the FOI requests made outside the City?
??? Is this BIG SISTER watching us by way of FOI requests ???
Request for special reconsideration
TO
The Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario
Ann Cavoukian
So further damage to our Democracy and its supporters will not occur.
Freedom of Information Petition
during the Green Party's Leaders visit - Sept. 22-03.
Stripping Canadians of Our Democratic & Human Rights!
How far will this go? Will you be next?
TO ACCESS GOVERNMENT RECORDS USING THE
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOI)
SO ALL ONTARIANS
CAN BE MEANINGFULLY INVOLVED IN THEIR GOVERNMENT!
Jefferson salamanders in Ontario.
That responsibility cannot be taken lightly."
This
includes
the Jefferson Salamanders!
MISSISSAUGA'S
ENVIRONMENTAL NEWSPAPER
Oct. 15 - 2002
V.4 N.1, Oct. - 2002
Featuring
- What you can do to help
& upcoming important dates. Oct. 17, 23 & 24.
- Development on Northmount
Ave., that will see a population explosion around the Cawthra Bush.
- General UPDATE - in brief,
some of what has happened since the last newsletter, Aug. 2000.
- How far will the City go in
eliminating the FCB & those who disagree with Mississauga's
politicians?
An article about the Cawthra Bush & our work, has been printed in the
[The newsletter of the Adopt-A-Pond,
Wetland Conservation Programme,
at the Toronto Zoo OR on this web-page
with colour pictures]
Sorry that this web-site has not
been fully updated with all the details and pictures from this springs
Vernal pond work.
We are working each day on some
part of making it happen & generally redo this whole web-site.
If you would like to be informed
when the web-site is updated then send us an e-mail
and you will be added to the list.
If you want a copy of this
newsletter
you can contact either us or the Adopt-A-Pond program - we love to
hear
from you & maybe you could renew your membership.
The article
by:
Bentley
Christie & The Vernalis Project
Photo
Gallery
details about the all that lives in the
Cawthra Bush
More updates in the matter of a City of Mississauga and its staff making
false statements.
This also involves a Freedom of Information (FOI) request made to the City.
"Complaint and Analysis of Commissioner's Response" and
"How did the City Commissioner make false statements
before a formal tribunal?"
As well as.
The response to the false written statements of Mississauga Commissioner
before a tribunal of the
Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO).
http://www.geocities.com/internet_public_hearing/commissioner.html
A
CHRONOLOGICAL
PUBIC MEETINGS AND EVENTS, etc.,
BY THE FRIENDS OF THE CAWTHRA BUSH
Something this web-site has needed for a long time.
Chair of the
COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF ENDANGERED WILDLIFE IN CANADA (COSEWIC),
Writes to us about the Federal ranking of the Jefferson Salamander.
Clayton C. Ruby
- Barrister -
wrote a letter in our defence!
For years the City has harassed our members and there was little we could do as the police were becoming the weapon of choice by the City, against us.
Now the City is on notice that it is out of line by one of Canada's leading human rights lawyer. Also a police complaint is being dealt with in which the police filed false notes about our members peacefully getting petitions signed in a City park.
We know the
City
takes this letter very seriously by the effort it makes to
try and hide it!
Check out
the other list of new items as the Peel police, the same police
force
the City likes to use against us, are now
arresting
people for just writing letters!
Liberals
make a sham of
Access
to Information Act
Now, proof that this part of a growing trend in Canadian politics, comes by way of a newspaper articles. Not only are we losing our right to know but a corner stone of democracy itself!
The Urban Amphibian Bunker
Amphibian - Mole (Jefferson) Salamander
&
Herptile in General
Habitat Creation and Protection,
in Urban/Park Forests/Wetlands.
This a discussion page about what
can or could be done, not just protect amphibians and their habitat but
to provide what is necessary to ensure their survival and population
growth.
Your input is greatly appreciated!
Click
here
Have
you ever seen a duck
in a tree
?????????????????????????
interesting and beautiful birds
in the Cawthra Bush
Includes;
- Pileated Woodpeckers - Saw-Whet
Owl - Scarlet
Tanager - Wood ducks
by the
Leader of the Green Party Ontario
Nov. 10 / 2001
As well as, the City's efforts to remove the habitat that rare and threatened wildlife depend on.
THE GREEN PARTY OF ONTARIO
ACCESS TO CITY OF MISSISSAUGA RECORDS.
CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
AN OFFICIAL
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
THAT WAS A PART OF THE GREEN PARTY'S EFFORT TO
HELP MISSISSAUGANS SAVE
THE CAWTHRA BUSH
AND THE
JEFFERSON SALAMANDERS,
DENIED !!
The Green Party of Ontario, has had its Freedom of Information (FOI), request denied that was presented to the City of Mississauga to discover the facts about what the City was doing to the habitat of the Jefferson Salamanders and the rare Walled Garden in the Cawthra Bush. It is hard to believe but it is true. A recognized and legitimate political party in Canada has been told by City staff they can not have access to City records they need to help Mississaugans.
If that
was not unbelievable just wait to you hear the reason.
The City is claiming guilty by association
as a lawful reason. That is right, the City of Mississauga is
claiming,
that it believes there is some kind of association between the Green
Party
and the President of the FCB & Chair of the
CRRA.
The inquiry that is reviewing this could set a very dangerous legal
precedence.
THAT THIS IS HAPPENING IN CANADA
BUT IT IS !!!!!!
Walled Garden
Photo's
by the City of Mississauga
- 1994 -
This is what started it all and as the story was best told in pictures, until now there was little room to do so on this web-site. Now the disrupting pictures can be shown about how the City wrongly took chain-saws to the Cawthra Bush. The event that has made the Cawthra Bush and those who have stood up for it, so well known. And the City never admitted any errors or even said it was sorry. Right to the pictures.
so lets have a web-page
CELEBRATION
and what better way then to start posting pictures
- after all they are worth a thousand words.
URGENT
APPEAL TO SAVE THE SALAMANDER !!!
STOP THE BAYVIEW EXTENSION !!!
CLICK HERE
The public meeting is Oct. 3 - 2001 at City hall.
If you miss that meeting you can get your two cents worth in if contact
the right people very soon.
Lakeview Gas Conversion not as promised
(Tories not keep a promise and endanger our lives because of it - sad to say that is not news)
If
you would like to tell the government that they should
keep
their promises - then
click here.
The Provincial government has
set a deadline of Aug. 2 / 01 for
the
public to respond with their concerns.
Another
example of Freedom of Information
abuse
and bias service;
Concerning the City of Mississauga
The City of
Mississauga
would have people believe that I am the only person who has a problem
with
the way it denies the public their right to City records under the
Freedom
of Information Act. That my claim that a false affidavit being
signed
by its FOI staff, is the only one, not so !
That the Information and Privacy
Commissioners (IPC) Office of Ontario, the Provincial agency that is
suppose
to be fair and unbiased, in ensuring Canadians right to access
Provincial
and Municipal records, in fact , the IPC is prejudice toward the City
of
Mississauga.
Canadians right to access government records is a corner stone of our democracy.
In this case the IPC aids the City of Mississauga in covering up its investigation of how an employ had Hydro Mississauga trucks do their landscaping but were caught in the act and were investigated.
Mr. Feyz requested "All information available to the City of Mississauga inclusive of Hydro Mississauga and Mississauga Transit on diversion of our public services for private use". Few records were found, he pushed harder and more records mysteriously were found but clearly not all. After the IPC Inquiry it was clear the IPC have again shown a bias in favor of the City of Mississauga. Mr. Feyz wrote me that the IPC is currently aiding and abetting the violation of criminal code in not pursuing a false affidavit issued by the City and it is backed by irrefutable evidence.
In an Internet
first
Mr. Feyz has posted all the documents about this matter,
so you can
be the judge.
Mark Feyz has written about this in the past.
( Mr. Feyz appears to be the first to put up all documents of a Request and Appeal, that I know of - I have posted a number of my FOI documents on the web, earlier. Had to blow my horn a bit. )
Appeals the City of Mississauga's refusal to recognize our ratepayers group.
Of all the examples I present as to how the City is shutting down Taxpayers efforts at trying to form a meaningful working relationship with the City of Mississauga, this is the clearest. As you can see from the items below the City has gone on the record with some very outrageous claims. The City also takes a shot at trying to control our membership and what other groups we affiliate with.
*
Ratepayers groups can't be allowed if they disagree with the
City's
goals !!!!
*
City staff can't reconsider their own decisions, no matter how
wrong?!? Etc.,
Etc.,
Etc.
And an
extra
special thanks to Councillor Gyles
(Ward 5), for his motion that our request for a review of City staff's
decision not to recognize our Ratepayers' group (in Ward 1), and for
the
City Manager to report back on it.
THE
WALLED GARDEN
Just as the Jefferson Salamander was being declared a Federally THREATENED species the City of Mississauga was planning how to eliminate the Jefferson Salamander from the Cawthra Bush. I led the community effort to try and stop this from happening and was in part successful. In the end, it was my call to the Ministry of Natural Resources that got the City to stop the work they were specifically, in writing, told not to do as it would remove habitat.
But not before the City banned me from the property for 30 days for catching them red handed, in the Act.
(or the lack of it)
&
CITY STAFF IN A MAJOR CONFLICT OF INTEREST
for telling the truth? Believe it.
Joan
LeFeuvre, FOI Coordinator and Arthur
Grannum,
Clerk,
have gone on the
record
that they are planning to a lawsuit for my
Nov.
9 / 2000 letter noting that between them, they have, violated
provincial legislation,
violated a City By-Law
and a signing false affidavit.
And now the City thinks it is
right
to allow persons who are on the record as bring a legal action against
me to deal with me as a part of their jobs!
This is the most complete section
on how the above persons have taken directions from the Hazel McCallion
to unlawfully stop community representatives from standing up to City
Hall
and how far ot low, City staff will go to serve the Mayor's political
agenda.
Stewardship program
for the
Cawthra Bush
Other Green Groups
The
Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology & Human Rights
Tel.# (905) 849-5501
occpehr@the-activist.org
www.occpehr.the-activist.org
They are having a Eco
Festival June 9 - 10 / 2001
Save The Mimico Marsh!!
Brampton Greens meet on the second Sunday of every month at 3:30 at
TRACKS BREW PUB
http://www.canadiangreens.org/brampton/
This is what City staff think is funny?
An example of how City staff treat the Cawthra Bush as a joke. No
doubt because politicians have told them to be confrontational with
those
who defend the Cawthra Bush, (especially Mr. Barber).
A face is carved into a stump along side a path with a chain saw by
the wild and crazy guys that the City gives chain saw to do forest
management.
A Provincially Significant forest and they think it is appropriate to do chain saw carvings right where everyone will see it. Is this the lesson the City is hoping the public will learn by its example, show no respect for a community treasure, abuse it at will like a cheap toy? City staff by showing disrespect to the forest . I protested City staff's actions and it was removed but not before I got some pictures of what the City, will do.
UFMAC
One thing is for sure they like to sit and just stare and forget how to speak when the Cawthra Bush comes up.
Only one member could find the energy to ask questions and make intelligent comments.
Federally
New Section - Literature
This section
is for all past flyers, notices, newsletters etc., put out by the FCB or CRRA or both.Check out the new, Feb.- 2001 flyer, now going out.
This web-page begins to detail this unseen danger to all our lives.
What can
you
do? What meetings can you express your concerns?
What
groups
are collecting information and spear heading the efforts to get the
best
deal??
Don't forget to tell them you heard about them from this web-site.
The Burnhamthorpe Cat ShelterThis battle took place between 1989 to 1991 and why is it here? The issues of the day are still not resolved and persons who are looking out for the welfare of cats and other pets, live in fear of the City swoop down on them, to shut them down. Many people in Mississauga are very disappointed that the Burnhamthorpe Cat Shelter, with its "NO Kill policy" for cats was shut down as it was the model of efficiency. That earned it praise from all quarters. Except for certain politicians, that leaves you wondering, does she hate living things?
A truly interesting study of people only trying to do the right thing and how political forces crushed them. Some say this was the beginning of the end for Councillor Dave Culham political career because of the way he tore apart the "sloppy arguments", "weird and wonderful arguments", claims of "influence with the Ward Councillor", and noted there was "no evidence" to back up City staff's claims regarding the home slipping into the valley.
It is not often you can read how a Mississauga Councillor (putting it in writing), that City staff, and fellow elected officials are full of it, on all counts.
Cawthra Bush from a 1988 parks manual
reason for concern, even today.
NEW, news articles have been added,
they are the bottom of the list
A new section has been added - EVENTS - so far it contains:
Jan. 23/99, a protest rally was held at the entrance to the Cawthra Community Centre, during its grand opening.
Sept. 6/2000 - Bob Hunter from CITY - TV comes out to cover the Cawthra Bush being declared at Provincially Significant Wetland Complex, story and City staff showed up to harass & intimidate us!
The Cawthra Bush Wetlands Evaluation has been reviewed by Steve Varga (Inventory Biologist), Ministry of Natural Resources and he states "it is a
Provincially Significant Wetland Complex." Click here.The City's plans call for a dry park, not a wetlands and wetlands take more effort to keep a wetland. If the public didn't fight so hard for a wetlands evaluation, petition and letters, it would never been done. In the words of David Culham, ex-City Councillor, to me about the wetlands evaluation,
"I think you are to be commended because it is your efforts that made that happen".That is right the residents have been right all along in saying the Cawthra Bush is a wetlands deserving the highest level of environmental protection and the City, along with its Urban Forest Management Advisory Committee (UFMAC) (experts from the community that the City selected and who are on the record saying no to a wetlands evaluation), have not only been in the wrong for years but at great cost to the tax payers as well!
The City and UFMAC were very much in the wrong at the Dec. 29/99 meeting where they approved a forest management plan for the Cawthra Bush, that didn't call any parts of the Cawthra Bush a wetlands. Very much in the wrong to withhold from the public, before the meeting, the draft results of the wetlands evaluation, as a wetlands/forest is managed in a very different way from a dry forest. And the Friends of the Cawthra Bush are right to appeal the City's forest management plans.
The wetlands evaluation is still lacking in some ways, it was done in a drought years after a couple of drought years but a wetlands evaluation is not a closed document we can study the forest to find significant species not found in the City funded evaluation, to further increase Cawthra Bush's environmental significance's. The evaluation lists a total of 3 visits to the Cawthra Bush for a total of 12 hours of study on site! I am sure the Friends of the Cawthra Bush can do better. It also notes that there are 12 individual wetland sites in the Cawthra Bush complex none are 2 ha in size, the smallest allowed by the provincially guide lines for a wetlands but as they are throughout the forest and come to total of 6.75 ha, we still made it as a wetlands complex. The full understanding of this report will take some time.
Any way there is a membership drive on, if you would like to be apart of this success story, let me know, it is only $10 and we really need it as the City will soon be coming at us with rezoning and a master plan for the Cawthra Bush.
After almost 6 years the City forces the
Cawthra Bush Management Plans past public opposition!
Dec. 15/99 the Cawthra management plans were approved by City Council. It is clear that politics not reason rules at City hall and some of this is noted in my letter about the events of that day (our Mayor not allowing a Councillor to express his opinion). We are not defeated!!!! Our group will remain active in the community, and as promised and today, Jan. 23 - 2000 a public protest was held at the entrance to the Cawthra Community Centre, as its grand opening was being held. The Mayor and our Councillor (Carmen Corbasson for Ward 1), were very aware of both our presence and that we are not going away.
In the middle of a Canadian winter more then 20 Mississaugans came out to hold signs and hand out flyers. The horn honking support made the 2 hours on the sidewalk, fun! We are all were very happy for the support received.
I will soon be publishing my report on the last 6 years and provide details on how our "government" deals with people trying to save salamanders and our democratic rights. If you want a copy please make sure to e-mail me your address.
May the 4/2000
A public meeting was held and members voted to Appeal
the City's forest Management Plans for the Cawthra Bush. To it
properly
a membership drive is necessary to have the numbers to be successful.
PLEASE take the time to become a paying member!
Memorial
to the late Lorrie Mitoff
and
the proposed rededication of Garnetwood Park as a permanent memorial to
Lorrie Mitoff,
we can make it happen!
lot
more has been added to ARCHIVES
ALSO
READ ABOUT HOW RESIDENTS
REJECTED
CITY FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS
**** ANNOUNCEMENTS ****
an online PETITION/FORM LETTER. Now you can give support to this worthy cause, read our latest fact sheet and action plan!
UFMAC - the City created committee to save the Cawthra Bush or is it a rubber stamp to aiding the City of Mississauga in destroying the Cawthra Bush for future development.
The Cawthra Ratepayers' and Residents' Association has formed. It is a local ratepayers and residents group whose main focus is to save the Cawthra Bush.
Boingdragon
Counters
Counter started (at 0), Jan. 3-04,
after redoing the whole web-site.