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Lorraine Johnson @ljohnsonauthor.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Sign this @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social Action Alert to urge your municipality to ensure that its property standards bylaws (grass and weeds bylaws, lot maintenance bylaws, boulevard bylaws etc.) support pollinators and biodiversity. davidsuzuki.org/action/bylaw... 3/3

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Tell your local government to update its bylaws for biodiversity!

Outdated municipal bylaws and enforcement policies limit the potential of habitat gardens to positively transform our cities, towns and communities

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Lorraine Johnson @ljohnsonauthor.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Leaving the leaves is a pollinator-supporting practice with benefits for biodiversity, soil health and water retention, yet many municipalities have bylaws that prohibit it. One more reason why these outdated, anti-ecological property standards bylaws need to be reformed. 2/3

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Lorraine Johnson @ljohnsonauthor.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Emily Noel has been told by bylaw officers in Oshawa that she has to remove the leaf mulch from her garden because leaves are considered "waste" under the city's Lot Maintenance and Property Standards bylaws. 1/3 #bylawsforbiodiversity #leavetheleaves #gardeningforpollinators #nativeplantgardening

Front yard garden and boulevard garden with leaf mulch, plants and flowers.

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Lorraine Johnson @ljohnsonauthor.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Looks like a great webinar on how communities can access public land to grow food. March 28th, noon to 1pm Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Lorraine Johnson @ljohnsonauthor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A significant victory in the legal effort to reform grass and weeds bylaws. Wolf Ruck of Mississauga was in the Ontario Court of Appeal yesterday, arguing that Mississauga’s enforcement against his naturalized garden were unjustified under Administrative law. 1/3 #BylawsForBiodiversity

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