TRCA Receives 2022 Reach Out Brownie Award

November 25, 2022

We are thrilled to announce that TRCA has once again been awarded a Brownie Award for our ongoing engagement work on the Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area project in partnership with Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) and the Region of Peel.

Left to right: Quentin Hanchard, Chief Administrative Officer, Credit Valley Conservation; Don Ford, Senior Manager, Hydrogeology and Source Water Protection, TRCA; John MacKenzie, Chief Executive Officer, TRCA.

We would like to take this opportunity to recognize all the staff involved in the Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area project.

This includes our Construction Services team under the leadership of Mike Puusa, including Mark Preston, Rob Sgambelluri, Karl Petursson, Stephen Plume, Colin Kennedy, Kyle Fisker, Megan McNeely, Jake Thomas, Tony Lam, Dillon Gray, Peter OConnell and Ryan Bolton, as well as Dave Hatton, Don Ford, Rick Portiss and our Aquatic Monitoring and Restoration teams who conducted the environmental compliance monitoring programs, including Brian Graham, Brynn Coey, Don Little, Kirstin Pautler, Mathew Fraschetti, McKayla Jarvie, Samuel Burr, Brian Derro, Aliana Hellmuth and Stephanie Smodis.

We would also like to thank our Wildlife Management team including Ralph Toninger, Karen McDonald, Tyson Reid, John DiRocco, Danny Moro and Jacob Timmins.

Thanks as well to the Survey, Drafting and Design team, including Cathy Eden, Tim Wheller, Amber Bowman, Jessica Dalrymple, Cody Purchase, Cody Daluz, Kevin Burnett, Sarah Sang, Caitlin Giordmaina, Sasha Bobojchov, Premilan Thiyagarajah, Krista Lowery, Megan Las, and Glen Geddes.

Thank you all for your continued efforts on this project!

TRCA’s Don Ford delivers remarks at the 2022 Brownie Awards ceremony.

The Reach Out award is for excellence in communications, marketing and public engagement. It recognizes our close partnership with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation to ensure that the new Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area reflects Indigenous traditional knowledge in environmental restoration and creates a sense of place at this new waterfront conservation area in the City of Mississauga that will connect people and wildlife back to nature.

Since the onset of the project, we have made it a priority to engage with the local community through Public Information Centres that inform the public about the project and capture feedback from those who visited, as well as a direct email channel for questions or comments. Community members can also sign up to receive project updates and get involved with the project.

This project has a strong focus on combining fiscal responsibility with habitat creation. We have been able to accomplish this by using the cost savings on Peel capital projects from shorter hauling and lower tipping fees for material that didn’t need to take up landfill space.

Left to right: Quentin Hanchard (Credit Valley Conservation); Don Ford and John MacKenzie (TRCA); Marni Dicker (StrategyCorp)

The Brownie Awards recognize the builders, innovators and visionaries who are dedicated to the rehabilitation of brownfield sites that were once contaminated, under-utilized and undeveloped into productive residential and commercial projects that contribute to the growth of healthy communities across Canada. Learn more.

TRCA received the Reach Out Brownie Award in 2020 for our work on The Meadoway and the Best Overall Brownie Award in 2021 for our Port Lands Remedial Options Assessment.

The Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area will provide 26 hectares of new greenspace, transforming Mississauga’s Lakeview neighbourhood into a hub for passive waterfront recreation, a hotspot for wildlife migration, and a green oasis in the heart of the city. The new conservation area is named in honour of the late Mississauga Councillor Jim Tovey, a dedicated champion of conservation and a long-serving member of TRCA’s Board of Directors.