Greenbelt
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Ex-Ontario minister Kaleed Rasheed not seeking re-electionKaleed Rasheed won't run for another term in office, an announcement that comes more than year after he left the Progressive Conservative caucus over a Greenbelt-adjacent scandal.PoliticsOct 11
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Greenbelt issue a barrier to support for speeding up infrastructure: government pollThe auditor general and the integrity commissioner found that the government's process to remove 15 parcels of land from the Greenbelt to build 50,000 homes favoured developers.PoliticsSep 13
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Finance minister says government is an ‘open book’ amidst RCMP Greenbelt probeLast week, Premier Doug Ford’s office said current and former staffers were being interviewed by the Mounties 'as witnesses' in the RCMP's investigation into the Greenbelt scandal.PoliticsAug 13
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RCMP interviews ‘currently underway’ in Ford government Greenbelt probeThe RCMP's investigation was triggered after two watchdog reports last summer into the Ford government's decision to remove 7,400 acres of protected land from the Greenbelt.PoliticsAug 9
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Government’s Greenbelt advisory group ‘dormant’ without a chair and only 2 remaining membersThe Greenbelt Council is supposed to meet 10 times per year but hasn't convened a session since December 2022, despite the Greenbelt scandal that engulfed the Ford government.PoliticsAug 9
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Ford government close to completing Greenbelt checklist, key recommendation will go to committeeIn her Greenbelt investigation, Ontario's auditor general set the Ford government 15 tasks to fix its internal processes. The vast majority of them are now complete.PoliticsAug 8
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Ontario privacy commissioner probing deleted Greenbelt emailsOntario's privacy commissioner says she will publish a special report about the use of non-government emails and deleted messages related to the Greenbelt.PoliticsMay 27
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Government by Gmail: Doug Ford’s chief of staff used private email for ‘political discussions’Patrick Sackville, Chief of Staff to Ontario Premier Doug Ford, told Integrity Commissioner J. David Wake: 'I do not conduct government business on my personal e-mail.'PoliticsMay 27
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Ford government faces new special report on Greenbelt communicationsIn a letter to the Ontario NDP, privacy commissioner Patricia Kosseim said her office has 19 active appeal cases 'concerning requests for records related to the Greenbelt.'PoliticsMay 27
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Government considered Greenbelt ‘medium’ risk before summer of scandal: DocsAn internal document labelled the Greenbelt policy as 'medium' risk just a week before the scandal blew up. Government sources say the document was written by civil servants.PoliticsMar 7
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