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Next Public Meeting for the Shoreline is June 28th

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If you would like to be involved in the process of protecting the natural environment and shaping the future of Toronto's shoreline, please attend this meeting.  Keeping the remaining 2 km of sand beach natural is the best legacy we can leave for future generations. We do not need more paved and hardening shorelines. This project is based on outdated ideas from the past. In 1992 the province of Ontario established the Waterfront Regeneration Trust to implement recommendations of 'Regeneration', a Royal Commission report which included public consultations. One of the recommendations was to create a continuous waterfront trail along the shorelines of Lake Ontario. This is not a good reason to continue with this project. This is not 1992.  This project is not environmentally responsible. We need to let the TRCA know that we are serious about protecting what natural beauty and biodiversity remains and paving a shoreline is not the way ...