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MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS: POLLUTION, TRAFFIC CONCERNS
Communities weigh putting brakes on drive-thrus
Options range from banning new outlets to tightening zoning bylaws to restricting hours of operation
STEVE LAMBERT
The Canadian Press
December 10, 2007
It might be tempting to pull up to the drive-thru window to fill up on food and coffee on frosty winter mornings, but some Canadian communities [...]
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Traffic, air-quality concerns could mean double-double trouble for drive-thrus
Steve Lambert, THE CANADIAN PRESS
December 08, 2007
It might be tempting to pull up to the drive-thru window to fill up on food and coffee on frosty winter mornings, but some Canadian communities are arguing that traffic safety and concern for the environment should trump convenience.
At [...]
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Banning the drive-thru
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Toronto Ponders Drive-Thru Ban To Help Environment
Monday December 17, 2007
CityNews.ca Staff
They’re fast, they’re convenient but are they environmentally friendly?
Drive-thrus have become a way of life in car conscious Toronto, as busy GTA residents find they don’t have the time to even get out of their vehicles for a coffee or a hamburger. But what [...]
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In the coming decades, our country is going to be transformed by climate change. According to Don MacIver, Director of the Adaptation and Impacts Research Group at Environment Canada in Toronto, there will be no part of Canadian life that won’t be affected by climate change. In this [...]
Hot Air: Putting Canada’s Inaction on Climate Change in a Global Context
Edmonton Journal, December 12, 2007, pg. 19
By Anthony Weis and Tim Weis
As the world leaders meet in Bali to find ways to stem the global climate crisis Canada is making its voice being heard, but sadly it is not the voice of leadership but [...]
Right now, a major UN summit in Bali has just a few days left to hammer out an agreement on stopping catastrophic global warming. But instead of helping out, Canada is actually sabotaging the UN talks! On Saturday, experts gave us the global "fossil" award for being the worst country in the world on [...]
