Biodiversity and Climate Action Committee - Niagara

09/01/2026

08/29/2026

The Ford government needs to step up and put some money where their mouth is. Also, citizens need to press the provincial government to allow municipalities to implement green standards again — things like green roofs, rain gardens and other measures that help collect and contain rainwater. Taxpayers need to push their elected representatives, at all levels, to take the action needed to mitigate the impacts of climate change. That means better urban planning, protection of wetlands and green spaces, funding infrastructure upgrades and implementing low impact design standards. And finally, we need to work with each other, in own communities and with our municipalities to create resilient community plans that work on strengthening our neighbourhoods' response and adaptation to the serious challenges we will continue to face. Resilient communities also build a greater sense of community and local self-reliance. Connected communities are better places to live for all their residents. Learn more here: https://www.resilientneighbourhoods.ca and here: https://davidsuzuki.org/living-green/building-and-sustaining-resilience/ and here: https://resilientcitiesnetwork.org

08/28/2026

Captain Canada: As much as many of us may agree with Ford’s comments about what Trump could do with his nasty, weirdly puckered lips, I worry when Ford puts on his Captain Canada cape because it seems to serve as an invisibility cloak for all the terrible things he's done — the multi-million dollar deals he’s made with big U.S. companies that could have gone to businesses here at home; cuts to healthcare and education; dismantling good planning, environmental and climate policy; wrecking financial help for university and college students; and diminishing democracy in every way possible from no longer allowing Niagara residents to vote for their highest municipal official, to taking over school boards, to removing almost all the say local municipalities had in managing growth, and so much more.
Ford is no friend to the people of Ontario. He only cares about his developer friends and funders. Just because he’s got a big mouth, doesn’t mean he’s got a big heart.
Let’s keep reminding him that his Captain Canada cape isn’t big enough to hide all the bad things he’s doing to the people of our province.

08/21/2026

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Canada’s Big Four oil and gas companies just reported $13.3 billion in Q2 profits, up 144% compared to Q2 last year. The sector is set to make $60 billion total in excess profits by the end of the year as oil prices continue to rise.

Doctors see the health costs of these profits: more people in emergency rooms during heat waves, more children struggling to breathe through wildfire smoke. An industry profiting this much while making people sick can afford to pay for more of the public services that protect health.

An excess profits tax could raise $40 billion within a single year that could fund:
✅ 5-10 years of free public transit across all of Canada
✅ Clean energy infrastructure
✅ Affordable housing

Call on your MP and Prime Minister Mark Carney to tax the excess profits of oil & gas companies.

08/20/2026

Climate change is making the cost of living more expensive in fundamental ways: higher foods costs, energy cost, insurance cost etc. It's time we let our politicians know that we understand this and we want them to take action. We pay the price for their inaction.