Staff Feature – Riley Valade and Evan Robertson

Conservation Parks are a very important interface where the Public gets to know who TRCA is and what we’re all about. After a nice afternoon and evening in Glen Haffy …

Staff Feature – The Durham Region Development Review Team

The Development Planning and Permits team (DPP) team reviewed 720 planning applications in 2019 and issued 1,192 permits for a variety of different development proposals. Each and every one of …

Staff Feature: The Carruthers Creek Watershed Plan Team

In March 2020, TRCA released the Carruthers Creek Watershed Plan for public review.  This was a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project that takes watershed-scale monitoring data and scientific analysis and translates this …

Supporting mental health: Managing anxiety as the world re-opens

This live webinar event was held July 8, 2020 – recording below You may have some anxiety as the world begins to re-open. You’re not alone – we’re here to …

Staff Feature – The Planting Team

Earlier this spring TRCA’s Restoration and Resource Management planting field staff planted 38,971 bareroot and container stems, 87,910 seedlings, 20,450 live stakes, and 2500 herbaceous plants throughout 83 sites across …

Staff Feature – Toronto Island Park Flood and Erosion Mitigation Project

Emergency Road Raising Works and Flood Protection Measures Recent high lake level events resulted in flooding on Toronto Island Park in 2017 and 2019 and impacted over 800 residents, emergency …

Staff Feature: The Virtual Public Information Center

On April 28, 2020, TRCA staff from Capital Projects (Melody Brown and Nick Lorrain) and Project Management Office (Crystal Robertson and Meg St. John) teams hosted TRCA’s first ever virtual …

File Sharing Best Practices

Staff Feature: The Lakeview Construction Services Team

Since 2016, TRCA has been working in partnership with the Credit Valley Conservation Authority and the Region of Peel to lead the construction of the 26 hectare Jim Tovey Waterfront …

Staff Feature: Viola McPhee and Amanda Billeter

Black Creek Pioneer Village TRCA’s Livestock team cares for over 60 heritage breed animals at BCPV. The largest group, the Border Leicester Sheep, are a rare at-risk breed that has …