Press Releases

ONTARIO GOVERNMENT RULES OUT ROAD THROUGH
BOYD CONSERVATION AREA
Area Excluded From Pine Valley Environmental Assessment

Greenbelt Saves Boyd Park
Friends Congratulate Premier McGuinty's Vision

March 05, 2005

• "Pierre Berton joins battle against Pine Valley link."
  - by Roy Green for the Vaughan Citizen, 2004.
• "Closed Door Politics: Road decision made with virtually no public input."
  - by Robert Racco for the Toronto Star, Letters section, Feb. 19, 2004.
• "Contentious Route."
  - The Vaughan Citizen, Feb. 15, 2004.
• "New road will allow developers to exploit area, Berton tells crowd."
  - by Mike Adler for the Vaughan Citizen, Sept. 23, 2004.
• "Reader recalls memories of Boyd Park."
  - by Marion Ford in the Vaughan Citizen, 2004.
• "Pierre Burton 'mad as hell' about road."
  - by Jim Wilkes for the Toronto Star, 2004.
• "Pine Valley extension always been part of plan."
  - by Franca Stirpe, Letters to the Editor, the Vaughan Citizen, Feb. 19, 2004.
• "Pine Valley extension would destroy gift."
  - by Linda Mae Maxey, Letters to the Editor, the Vaughan Citizen, 2004.
• "Oponents battle Pine Valley extension."
  - by Mike Adler for the Vaughan Citizen, Feb. 15, 2004.
• "Need for road challenged: Greenbelt curbs should kill planned extension: Ecologists."
  - by Gail Swainson for the Globe and Mail, Sept. 5, 2004.
• "Boyd is a slice of serenity in chaotic city."
  - by Paul Leavoy for the Vaughan Weekly, 2004.
• Article in two parts:
  1) "Opponents vow to stop road."- by Leslie Ferenc.
  2) "Access is expected to east traffic congestion." - conclusion by Leslie Ferenc.

More articles coming soon - please check back.

Television

Huron Wendat first Nations look for their roots in Boyd Park

CBC News - July 19th, 2005,  Mike Chambers - Reporter

Individual Environmental Assessment Terms of Reference Challenged by Friends of Boyd Park

CBC News - June 3rd, 2005 , Mike Wise - Reporter

Pierre and Janet Berton Memorial Trail
to Replace Pine Valley Link

Rogers T.V. - First Local News - March 28th, 2005 , 
Katie Smitko - Reporter