A brooding, red brick building with boarded-up windows sits on the Hamilton mountain.
A 23-hectare wetland full of tall grass and bulrushes that birds flock to while migrating is nestled south of Highway 401 near Pickering, Ont.’s border with Ajax.
While a little over 100 kilometres separate Hamilton’s Century Manor, a 138-year-old former psychiatric hospital, and Pickering’s Duffins Creek, a provincially significant and protected wetland, they have something in common — they’ve been subject to a powerful and controversial tool the Ford government has used to accelerate development throughout Ontario.
A Minister’s Zoning Order, or MZO, is a trump card that lets the
