Parks are not Dumps!

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Whereas, the City of Toronto used Christie Pits Park and other city parks as temporary dump sites during the garbage strike of 2002, and

whereas, Christie Pits Park is heavily used by children and adults, and the general garbage stream contains toxic material that leaks out into the surrounding area, and

whereas, the health threat to the community continues after the strike as the residue of pesticides, rodenticides, and other toxic liquids remains in the park close to where children play.

Therefore, we resolve that the Municipal Council of the City of Toronto remove Christie Pits Park and other city parks from the list of temporary dump sites effective immediately.

We further resolve that the city should investigate alternatives away from where children play such as: Municipal parking lots, Allan Lamport Stadium, city land in the portlands, under the Gardiner Expressway, parking lots attached to schools, and leased private lots.

We further resolve that dumping toxic materials in public parks makes no sense. Parks are not dumps!

792 Signatures

  • Govind Rao
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • Dump garbage in parking lots, not parks!
  • Eban Bari
  • Annie Ng Jon
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • Let's keep our parks green and usable 4 everyone!
  • Joanne Fisher
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Mark Evans
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Poonam Khanna
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • Parks are not dumps! They need to be safe havens free of toxic waste where our community can gather.
  • Patricia MacInnis
  • Oliver Heinrich
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • It does seem ironic that we immediately use our parks to dump garbage and not our parking lots
  • Jill Golick
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • В
  • Dawn Vrablic
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • Keep our children safe!
  • Catherine Roberts
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • Temporary dump sites should not be located in public parks. They should be located in paved parking lots where children will not be exposed to the garbage and residue
  • Michael Foster
    • City
    • Toronto
  • N.Joy
    • City
    • toronto
  • Douglas Moore
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • Amazing that a public park, the little slice of nature available to the neighborhood, is the first site chosen as a dump. That this kind of thinking continues to dominate, in Toronto is incredible. With this kind of thinking running the show, we are going to find ourselves a society distinguished by our wealth of hospitals. A hospital on every corner! Turn the parks into dumps, build more hospitals, with bigger parking lots. We can lie in bed and watch nature films all day, hooked up to life-support systems. The North American nightmare, alive and thriving in Toronto.
  • john cadiz
    • City
    • toronto
  • Scott McClellan
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Barbara Macgibbon
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Kyle Tingley
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Siobhan NiLoughlin
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • open temporary compost/recycling drop off centres and people can store their own dry garbage indefinitely
  • Ann Rauhala
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Jo-Ann Seamon
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • В
  • JAne Brooks
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • PARKS MUST BE THERE FOR PEOPLE NOT GARBAGE! THERE SHOULD BE NO STRIKE AS THIS IS ESSENTIAL SERVICE IN A CITY THE SIZE OF TORONTO!
  • Chris McNeil
  • Marcia Cunningham
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • В
  • GL Silverman
    • City
    • Clinton St , Toronto
  • Bruce McKinnon
    • City
    • toronto adjacent to christie pits
    • Comments
    • В
  • Leticia Gracia
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • No way is this a good idea!!!!
  • Angela Burns
    • City
    • toronto
  • Casey McKinnon
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Amy Rogers
    • City
    • Toronto
  • A. Lumsden
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Helena Betel
    • City
    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • Anne Nikkel
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Monica Gupta
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • PARKS ARE NOT DUMPS
  • Matthieu Schapira
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Paul Cowles
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Jenn St. Louis
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • В
  • Dianne Vandervlist
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Derek Anderson
    • City
    • Shaw Street - Toronto
    • Comments
    • В
  • Simone St. Louis - Anderson
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • В
  • Daphne Horn
    • City
    • Toronto
  • wendy Findlay
    • City
    • toronto
  • susannah hoffmann
    • City
    • toronto
    • Comments
    • parks are for kids in the summer, NOT garbage.
  • Jill Moriarty
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Peter Aghar
    • City
    • toronto
    • Comments
    • There are much better alternatives to dealing with garbage then dumping it on well used green spaces.
  • maury Chaykin
    • City
    • toronto
    • Comments
    • parks are for kids not garbage!
  • Karen Devonish-Mazzotta
  • Natalie Fawcett
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • It is a Public Health disgrace that garbage should be dumped where we live and play. I live a block away from Christie Pits. Don't let them dump garbage where my kids play!
  • Cheryl McKee
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Dianne Banasco
    • City
    • Toronto