Consuming Fish in the Toronto and Region Area of Concern: A Lake Ontario Evening

Missed our October 12 Lake Ontario Evening event? No problem — the full video is now available for viewing!

Consuming Fish in the Toronto and Region Area of Concern

Most resident Toronto and Region fish are safe to eat!

Levels of contaminants like mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have substantially declined in the Toronto and Region Area of Concern. These improvements to water and sediment quality have made both catching and eating fish in Toronto a reality.

This Lake Ontario Evening highlights some of the angler engagement surveys taking place in Lake Ontario, and explains how you can provide feedback on a recent assessment of the Restrictions on Fish Consumption Beneficial Use Impairment.

 

Following Toronto and Region’s Largest Waterfront Projects from East to West – Part Two: A Lake Ontario Evening

Missed our March 23 Lake Ontario Evening event? No problem — the full video is now available for viewing!

Following Toronto and Region’s Largest Waterfront Projects from East to West – Part Two

Large-scale projects are transforming the face of Toronto’s waterfront. These efforts to upgrade infrastructure, control erosion, and reduce elevated nutrient levels will deliver a number of benefits, from providing habitat for aquatic and terrestrial species to creating recreational opportunities.

Our two-part Lake Ontario Evening series highlights some of these major projects and reveals how they are helping to move Toronto closer to delisting as an Area of Concern (AOC). In part two, we focus on projects in the western side of the AOC, including the Don Mouth Naturalization and Port Lands Flood Protection Project, Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area, and various major maintenance projects.

VIEW PART ONE.

 

Following Toronto and Region’s Largest Waterfront Projects from East to West – Part One: A Lake Ontario Evening

Missed our February 23 Lake Ontario Evening event? No problem — the full video is now available for viewing!

Following Toronto and Region’s Largest Waterfront Projects from East to West – Part One

Large-scale projects are transforming the face of Toronto’s waterfront. These efforts to upgrade infrastructure, control erosion, and reduce elevated nutrient levels will deliver a number of benefits, from providing habitat for aquatic and terrestrial species to creating recreational opportunities.

Our two-part Lake Ontario Evening series highlights some of these major projects and reveals how they are helping to move Toronto closer to delisting as an Area of Concern (AOC). In part one, we focus on projects in the eastern side of the AOC, including the Ashbridges Bay Landform Project and the Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant Outfall Project.

Stay tuned for part two, coming Thursday March 23, 2023.

 

How Circulation Patterns Affect Water Quality Along the Toronto Waterfront: A Lake Ontario Evening

Missed our June 23 Lake Ontario Evening event? No problem — the full video is now available for viewing!

How Circulation Patterns Affect Water Quality Along the Toronto Waterfront

Knowing how water circulates can help us predict areas of reduced water quality on the Toronto and Region waterfront and focus our remediation efforts.This Lake Ontario Evening showcases some of the amazing work being done to better understand water circulation patterns and address water quality issues within Canada’s largest urban centre.

 

Lessons Learned in 30 Years of Restoration: A Lake Ontario Evening

Missed our March 8 Lake Ontario Evening event? No problem — the full video is now available for viewing!

Lessons Learned in 30 Years of Restoration

In the last three decades, extensive efforts have been made in restoring aquatic and terrestrial habitat along the Toronto and Region waterfront and within its watersheds. Join the Toronto & Region Remedial Action Plan (RAP) team to learn about these efforts in detail and explore some of the positive changes that have occurred.

 

Event: Lake Ontario Evening
– October 2021

All Our Relations: Water Beings of the Great Lakes

Date: Wednesday October 20, 2021
Time: 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Online (webinar)

Join special guest speaker Barbara Moktthewenkwe Wall at the next Lake Ontario Evening hosted by the Toronto and Region Remedial Action Plan (RAP).

Barbara Moktthewenkwe Wall
Barbara Moktthewenkwe Wall. Photo by Shelby Lisk.

Barbara is a Bodwewaadmii Anishinaabekwe of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Shawnee, Oklahoma and a traditional Knowledge Holder. She is a storyteller, educator, professional engineer, writer, and dreamer. Barbara retells Anishinaabe stories to audiences of all ages, weaving together teachings, humour and song.

Barbara’s essay “Nokmisag: Bemnigying” is the final piece in the forthcoming Grandmothers and Grandmothering: Creative and Critical Contemplations in Honour of our Women Elders. She is a professor teaching in the Indigenous Environmental Studies in Sciences program within Trent University’s Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies.

About the Talk

We, and the Great Lakes, are at a turning point. Restoring our relationships with the other than human beings that inhabit the land, water, and the cosmos is essential for sustaining the health of the Great Lakes. The protection of ecological integrity is intimately tied to relationship restoration.

Through story, prophecy, and song, this talk will share Anishinaabe concepts of relationality with, and responsibility for, the Great Lakes and the water beings that reside here.

This workshop will take place via GoToWebinar. After registration you will be emailed a link to join the webinar.


Lake Ontario Evenings is a free speaker series hosted by the Toronto and Region Remedial Action Plan. Each event covers a different Lake Ontario and/or Toronto waterfront related topic. Lake Ontario Evenings events are free and open to the public.

We are committed to creating an accessible experience for all participants. If you require an accommodation, please email tisha.tan@trca.ca at least seven days prior to the event.