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These LEED certifications are ridiculous. Focus on the details, but lose sight of the big picture. A parking garage isn't environmentally friendly, no matter how many native plants you use or how many LED lights you have.#bloomington #ibidxa | IBI Group
Our design of the Bloomington GO Station in #Bloomington, ON, transformed the site’s environmental challenges into a LEED Gold space. Its design features unique elements that minimize the environmental impact of the station. Our integration of the station building and bus loop within the body of...
This should be the standard for any future upgrades, canopies, accessibility and prepared for level boarding retro, but no giant parkade. It looks sharp and just as good if not better that the typical regional station in Europe
I'm confused - I thought the Mississaugas of the Credit were a Toronto-based Anishinaabe people - what has that got to do with the Haudenosaunee? Surely the British and French (or heck the Irish and Iranian) peoples are more closely related than the Mississaugas and the Haudenosaunee (at least based on language)!
Which treaties are these? The Toronto purchase with the Mississaugas was only for the land from Etobicoke Creek, to somewhere near Victoria Park. So that doesn't cover either Mississauga or Scarborough - let alone the rest of the Lakeshore line! And it's only with the Mississaugas who lived in that area, not the majority of them in Southern Ontario!
I couldn't find a graphic that neatly depicted the 'jurisdiction' of the Haudenosaunee Development Institute, but it is certainly broader than what we currently know as Six Nations. Without getting into the weeds of Crown treaties, what their boundaries and terms are as well as any amendments, settlements, etc., this is a rough depiction of the scope of the '1701 Nanfan Treaty' ;There are indeed treaties - which from my understanding give pretty clear direction that the Haudenosaunee (or really, the Mississaugas of the New Credit) forfeited lands in the GTA to the Crown.
The reserve and lands along the Grand River are generally a bit more disputed, as the treaty isn't as clear (the reserve as originally defined in the initial treaties was land on both sides of the Grand River for most of it's length, later shrunk down to just Six Nations), but the treaties covering the GTA are not that disputed. Or at least, this is the first time I've heard of an indigenous group disputing title holding on the lands.
I think (i may be wrong) that the Haudenosaunee are claiming here that the lands are their "traditional territories" and they have a right to compensation based on that, regardless of what a treaty from the 18th century might say. And that's the overreach. They have a right to consultation and oversight on the matter, as Metrolinx has done, but not to compensation.
Highway 69 is a distinctly different issue as it actually runs through a current day indigenous reserve. Same thing with the Calgary Ring Road, it runs directly beside the Tsuut′ina reserve. It's not running solely on ceded territory like Metrolinx's Lakeshore West line.
The problem lies in this quote:
The problem is that Lakeshore West does not run through Indigenous lands or their territories. It runs through their traditional territories, but those are covered by those old treaties from the late 18th century and early 19th century showing the lands being ceded to the crown. The last known disputes on the Toronto purchase were settled in 2010:
Toronto Purchase - Wikipedia
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Interesting - particularly as some of that land in that treaty was Huron, which wasn't part of the Five (and later Six) Nations.
I mean duh of course it’s a shakedown.
The way I understand it, that was considered the 'Iroquois Influence'. I came across another graphic:
native-land.ca
Thanks for these! By the looks of it, 3 tracks expandable to add a 4th track on the outside of the east platform? Makes sense for a location that will likely be a short-turn location for Stouffville RER.
Now bring on the electric trains...
but seeing that they already have established the platform grade why not have the higher platforms as part of the base contract? why subject us to future cost escalation and doubling up construction? Its a tremendous waste of money especially if its already known exactly what our platforms need to be.
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Our design of the Bloomington GO Station in #Bloomington, ON, transformed the site’s environmental challenges into a LEED Gold space. Its design features unique elements that minimize the environmental impact of the station. Our integration of the station building and bus loop within the body of...
