In the News

February 5, 2024

Below is a partial list of articles about ALO activities: 

August 30, 2023: Franz Hartmann (ALO Coordinator) is featured on CBC Radio’s The World At Six and CBC Newsworld on the Greenbelt Scandal.

August 24, 2023: Alliance Founders David Crombie and Anne Golden have an OP ED in the Toronto Star about our call to the Auditor General and Integrity Commissioner to expand their investigations into other planning decisions

August 19, 2023: Margaret Prophet, (Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition) is quoted in Simcoe.ca about the ALO letter to the Auditor General and Integrity Commissioner calling on expanded investigations into other land use planning decisions.

August 18: 2023: ALO letter to the Auditor General and Integrity Commissioner is mentioned in the Toronto Star and TVO.org.

August 11, 2023: Franz Hartmann (ALO Coordinator) is featured on CBC Radio and the CBC website calling on the public to contact their elected officials about the Auditor General's report.

August 11, 2023: Burkhard Mausberg (Small Change Fund) mentions the ALO Environics poll in a moving Toronto Star OP ED about the Auditor General's Report.

June 1, 2023: ALO Media conference is broadcast live on CHCH

May 12, 2023: Franz Hartmann (ALO Coordinator) is mentioned in the  Newmarket Today and the National Observer in a talk about the importance of Greenbelt protection and dealing properly with the housing crisis.

March 19, 2023: Story in The Pointer about ALO helping build opposition to bad provincial planning policies. 

March 2, 2023: CBC runs a story about a new report commissioned by ALO and written by expert planner Kevin Eby about enough land already available to build over 2 million homes by 2031.