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Ontario's Environmental Commissioner Delivers Straight Talk on Waste
Diversion
Toronto, Ontario, July 27, 2010 – The Association
of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) applauds the Environmental
Commissioner Gord Miller’s Special Report on Ontario’s Plan for Municipal
Hazardous or Special Waste. The
Report provides straight talk on the urgent need to divert
hazardous household waste from landfills, and the wisdom of holding
industry stewards – not taxpayers – responsible for the
disposal costs of what industry produces. Read more here. |
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AMO Releases Paper on Property Assessment Limits
AMO commissioned one of Canada's foremost experts in municipal finance,
Dr. Enid Slack, to write a paper on some of the alternatives to current
value assessment. Please see Dr Slack’s guest column or click here for the paper and its
significant conclusions. |
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Accessibility Standards
The Government of Ontario’s’ commissioned report, Releasing Constraints: Projecting the Economic
Impacts of Increased Accessibility on Ontario’s
Economy, examines the broad, beneficial economic
impacts on individuals, markets and society of implementing the AODA,
specifically, the current five standards. However, AMO asks
how implementation costs of standards may affect Martin Prosperity
Institute analysis. |
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Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act
The intent of the proposed Act is to establish a framework to drive
innovation, create economic opportunities, sustain water infrastructure
and conserve Ontario’s water. Read more here. |
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Wind Turbines
A technical working group led by the Chief Medical Officer of Health
(CMOH) has just released a synopsis of existing scientific
evidence on the potential health impact of noise generated by wind
turbines. Read more here. |
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AMO Seeks Liability Reform
AMO presented its paper on joint and several liability
reform to the Attorney General’s Office highlighting how
municipalities have become the targets of litigation when other
defendants do not have the means to pay high damage awards. The
price communities are paying is steep. Municipalities should not be
insurers of last resort. Read more here. |
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Student Vote Day
Have your say and vote! Learn about the roles of elected officials.
Investigate local candidates and issues. Participate in the Student Vote
election. Student Vote is a non-profit, non-partisan organization
working with educators to engage young Canadians in the democratic
process. For more information, click
here. |
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80% of Ontarians will have a chance to help their community win the
PowerPledge Community Challenge
83 Ontario communities have
signed up to be named Ontario's most conservation-conscious communities.
The winners will gather the most Pledges per capita and use as little
electricity as possible on Challenge Day, August 11, 2010. Click here to see how your community is
doing. If your community isn't on the map call your leaders
and give them a nudge! Winning won't be easy. Last year's
winners - Sioux Lookout and Kingston - are back in the game and
preparing to defend their titles.Take The Power Pledge challenge
at powerpledge.ca! |
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ALSO IN THE NEWS
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Electronic Municipal
Directory
Municom’s Electronic Municipal
Directory is here! Included with a Municom subscription, users are now able to
access Municom’s Online Municipal Directory. Search
elected and key appointed officials, look-up addresses, email and
websites, fax numbers, population/households and other municipal
information. You will be able to easily generate reports and much more!
Directory information is updated daily so check back frequently.
It’s easy, it’s green, and it’s available 24-7!
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