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Welcome to the Great Lakes Town Hall!
Like the town meetings on which it is modeled, the Great Lakes Town Hall
provides a "space" for you to come together with your neighbors
around the basin to share and explore what it means to be a Great
Laker. Have something to say about the Great
Lakes? Join the discussion on the Town Hall today!
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This Week's Daily Post Writer
![RyanLaFlamme140.jpg]() As Communications
Coordinator, Ryan LaFlamme
works closely with Lake Ontario Waterkeeper Mark and Vice President
Krystyn to help make sure LOW’s message is reaching the ears of the
people who need to hear it, and the voices we need to hear are also
getting through to us.
Ryan relocated from Sudbury to Toronto 10 years ago, and completed concurrent
degrees in Political Science and Philosophy at Glendon
College at York University.
Ryan has spent time as a policy analyst at Queen’s Park and at
not-for-profit and charitable organizations. He has worked as a freelance
writer and journalist in radio, online and magazine media, covering
music, news and political issues. Ryan also writes and performs music,
snowboards and cruises local farmer’s markets in Toronto’s west end.
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Our Weekly Editorial
Each week, one of our moderators, Dave Dempsey, Gary Wilson or
Brenna Wanous, writes an essay describing, praising, questioning or
highlighting a Great Lakes issue.
This week, Gary delves
into the promise of Great Lakes
restoration that legislators![Gary Wilson 150.jpg]()
are working on making come to fruition. Will this stimulus package
offer enough support to accomplish meaningful restoration in the
region? Gary
also gets perspective from the Great Lakes Coalition's Chris Grubb on the
logic behind the stimulus. Gary
writes,
"The House version of the
bill just passed and it includes $2.2 billion to fix the region’s aging
waste water infrastructure. $2.2 billion doesn’t do the job but it’s a
start. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that there isn’t
any money in the stimulus package to clean up the 30+ toxic sites
scattered around the Great Lakes. $1
billion would facilitate real progress and $2-4 billion would accomplish
the task."
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Monthly Feature: 5 Questions
Each month we premier one of three added features of the Great Lakes Town Hall.
These three consist of Opinion Polls, 5 Questions and the Great Lakes
Spotlight.
![jennifer.jpg]() This
month, Jennifer
Browning, Executive Director of the Biodiversity
Project, is in the hot-seat as we feature the 5 Questions section.
One question we asked Jennifer was
"You're responsible for messaging for two
of the world's greatest watersheds, the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. How are they similar or
different?"
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