{"id":30768,"date":"2025-01-31T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/?p=30768"},"modified":"2025-02-01T00:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T05:18:27","slug":"highway-413-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/highway-413-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 413 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"30768\" class=\"elementor elementor-30768\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50137c2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50137c2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0531637\" data-id=\"0531637\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5fa5d1a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5fa5d1a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Highway 413 Update<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7d1b3f7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7d1b3f7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5835eca\" data-id=\"5835eca\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20efd1c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"20efd1c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Construction of the controversial Highway 413, which will arch north of Highway 401 from Halton to York Region, is scheduled to start this year. The mega-project \u2013 a $6-billion, six-lane highway stretching 52 kilometres \u2013 will cut through 220 wetlands, 85 waterways, the Ontario Greenbelt, and the protected habitat of 11 at-risk species, including those of seven birds.<\/p><p>Despite protests from almost every community north of Toronto that the highway is meant to benefit \u2013 including Mississauga, Vaughan, Halton Hills, Orangeville, and Brampton \u2013 Premier Doug Ford has introduced amendments the Ontario Species-at-Risk Act that will reduce the amount of time a habitat can be protected. Currently the Act states that if a species-at-risk has occupied a particular habitat in the past 20 years, that habitat must be protected or restored. The new legislation would reduce that period to 10 years.<\/p><p>In October 2023, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Ontario\u2019s Impact Assessment Act was unconstitutional, and in April 2024, the federal government dropped the need for an Environmental Assessment on the proposed highway route.<\/p><p>The advocacy group Environmental Defence made a formal request to federal environment minister Steven Guilbeault to impose federal oversight on the project, but just before Christmas the federal government announced online that there will be no review.<\/p><p>As Environmental Defence executive director Tim Gray old The Narwhal, the decision to allow the project to proceed without an environmental assessment is \u201ca sad commentary on both our provincial and federal governments,\u201d and has paved the way for future \u201cenvironmental destruction.\u201d<\/p><p>At-risk bird species that will be adversely impacted by the highway include the Chimney swift, the Barn swallow, the Olive-sided flycatcher, the Bobolink, the Bank swallow, the Eastern meadowlark, and the Wood thrush.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fe53813\" data-id=\"fe53813\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-537665e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"537665e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-swallow-davison.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Barn swallow - Photo by Bill Davison\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6MzA3NzEsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC9waWJvLmNhXC9lblwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvYmFybi1zd2FsbG93LWRhdmlzb24uanBnIn0%3D\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-swallow-davison.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-30771\" alt=\"Barn swallow - Photo by Bill Davison\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-swallow-davison.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-swallow-davison-750x750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-swallow-davison-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-swallow-davison-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-swallow-davison-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-swallow-davison-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-swallow-davison-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/barn-swallow-davison-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">The Barn swallow is one of seven at-risk bird species threatened by Ontario\u2019s proposed Highway 413. Photo by Bill Davison<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highway 413 Update Construction of the controversial Highway 413, which will arch north of Highway 401 from Halton to York Region, is scheduled to start this year. The mega-project \u2013 a $6-billion, six-lane highway stretching 52 kilometres \u2013 will cut through 220 wetlands, 85 waterways, the Ontario Greenbelt, and the protected habitat of 11 at-risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":30771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30775,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30768\/revisions\/30775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}