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A Certificate of Property Use was issued to The Corporation of the City of Guelph for the property located at 200 Beverley Street, Guelph on April 20, 2022.

This proposal notice invited stakeholders of northern Ontario, Indigenous communities, organizations and people, and interested members of the public to review and provide comments on the Discussion Paper, Towards a Northern Ontario Multimodal Transportation Strategy.

Approval granted to amend site plan of ARA licence to Lafarge Canada Inc. for Roehner Pit.

Pursuant to Section 53 of the Planning Act, provisional consent was granted on December 10, 2020 in respect of Application 56-C-200496 to transfer mining lands described as PIN 65379-0185 (LT) and PIN 65379-0186 (LT) in Guibord unincorporated township, District of Cochrane. The last day this decision can be appealed is December 30, 2020.

The Ministry did not adopt the Canadian Water Quality Guideline for Nitrate Ion as an interim Provincial Water Quality Objective.

Fairgate (Ninth Line) Inc. application for a permit for activities with conditions to achieve overall benefit to the species under the Endangered Species Act clause 17(2)(c) has been approved.

A decision was made on April 7, 2026 to approve, with modifications, the County of Simcoe Official Plan Amendment (OPA) 7 , as adopted by By-law 6977. The approved OPA 7 guides growth in the County to 2051, identifies employment study areas and districts, recognizes the Provincial South Simcoe Growth Strategy and in-effect Minister Zoning Orders.

The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing has introduced legislation to allow for the creation of an administrative authority to deliver building code services. No decisions have been made at this time about what services would be delivered.

A decision has been made to implement an automatic financial penalty as part of a graduated penalty approach for hunters who fail to submit their mandatory hunter report(s). This penalty is an additional tool to promote hunter reporting compliance and improve reporting data used to make wildlife management decisions.

We have completed our public consultation on the plain language regulatory proposal relating to excess soil management.

We are notifying the public that we issued an amendment to ESA Overall Benefit Permit #KV-C-007-15 to authorize the removal of additional Blanding’s Turtle habitat. The permit includes conditions to minimize adverse effects and provide beneficial actions for Blanding’s Turtle as well as monitoring and reporting requirements.

Ontario Regulation 161/17 and Ontario Regulation 239/13 were amended to allow short-term bridges, geotechnical investigations, and mobile wind testing and environmental monitoring equipment on public lands provided conditions are followed, including location registration. In addition, the definition of “shore lands” was amended.

A decision was made on October 22, 2025 to approve, with modifications, the Town of Caledon Official Plan, as adopted by By-law 2024-014.  The approved Caledon Official Plan outlines a comprehensive framework of new and revised policies to guide growth and development to 2051. 

The Director of Mine Rehabilitation has made a decision on the Madsen Mine Amendment to a Closure Plan submitted by Pure Gold Inc. The decision is to file the Amendment.

On July 1, 2019, amendments to O. Reg. 509/18 made under the Electricity Act, 1998 came into force. These amendments further harmonize requirements for six products with Canadian and U.S. standards, and make editorial changes to keep the regulation up-to-date.

We have amended the Emissions Performance Standards (EPS) and greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting programs to provide voluntary participants with more flexibility to exit the EPS program.

This ministry has approved site-specific standards for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and sulphuric acid for Ontario Power Generation’s Lennox Generating Station in Napanee, Ontario for a 10-year period.

Approval was granted for a site plan amendment to allow Walker Aggregates Inc. to allow importation of 5,975,000 cubic metres of excess soil in the Town of Fort Erie.