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The Canada Lands Company demolished a Canada Post mail processing plant, so that the land could be transferred to developers, including the Montreal-based Claridge Inc., a Bronfman family company. YouTube has a video showing 3-D images of the massive, future residential project, google "Les Bassi...

Canada Lands Company is bulldozing heritage buildings at the Pickering Airport Lands. Websites asking CLC to leave: Save Griffintown! Save Downsview Park; S.A.V.E. Senneville; Remembrance Park Senneville; Save Shannon Park Halifax; Upton Farm Coalition; Save Richmond's Garden City Lands; SAVECHIL...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada declared the Portsmouth Harbour in Kingston, Ont. "surplus" in the year 2003. Google the website "Directory of Federal Real Property"; and in the column "Search for properties and buildings by number" type in "23173". Even though I am not a Kingstonian, I would hate to...

The People of Canada lost 92 acres of Experimental Farm land: "Order in Council: February 25, 1988 - Surplus Crown Assets Act - Sale to the Regional Municipality of Ottawa of a surplus parcel of vacant land (37.63 ha.) forming part of the Central Experimental Farm, which is situated on the west s...

Canadians, we own Jasper National Park...not the politicians, developers or foreign companies and governments. Send a message loud and clear---Jasper National Park is not for sale. For years, the Fraser Institute has been lobbying for the privatization and devolution of federal property-Google t...

The Prison for Women in Kingston was a Classified Federal Heritage Building, before the Canada Lands Company acquired the property. According to a document I read, all the historic federal prisons in Kingston may be declared "surplus" and transferred to Canada Lands---that includes the Collins Ba...

Ottawa City Councillor Peter Hume wants to see Tunney's Pasture transferred to the Canada Lands Company and real estate developers. (Canada Lands Company already owns the AECL land at Tunney's Pasture.) Alta Vista residents are still angry and dismayed by the Canada Lands Company controlled redev...

On July 18 2000, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced that they were seeking a buyer for 608 CBC transmission towers, 750 transmission sites and 2,500 CBC transmitters. Less than a year later, this improbable accident happened. CBC executives privatized billions of dollars worth of Cro...

The Calgary Airport Authority GAVE an aircraft hangar to the Aero Space Museum of Calgary---rent-free, in perpetuity. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the museum during their summer tour of Canada. Parc Downsview Park should be as patriotic and generous as the Calgary Airport Authority i...

The Air and Space Museum may owe $100,000 to Parc Downsview Park; but Parc Downsview Park owes the People of Canada $19 million dollars. (Google:auditor-general Downsview). The land was sold to Costco and Best Buy, and the proceeds were never deposited into the Consolidated Revenue Fund. Guess wh...

My father was an RCAF pilot during World War 11, based at Rockcliffe (Ottawa) and an English base. I am disgusted by the actions of the Canada Lands Company and its subsidiary, Parc Downsview Park. How dare they evict the staff and museum, with it's priceless airplanes and artifacts. Canada Lands...

Canada is a country in mourning. We have lost a great leader, a Peacemaker, Jack Layton. Jack Layton was a politician who cared about the homeless; the elderly; people who were denied pension benefits; people who were ill and suffering. This is an excerpt from Mr. Layton's final letter to Canadia...

The Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal was owned by the People of Canada; then the Canadian National Railway was privatized. Now, Fairmont, Carl Ichan and a Saudi Prince own/owned Canada's Crown jewels, the CN and CPR hotels.The room where John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded "Give Peace A Chance" sh...

The Canada Lands Company is a federal Crown corporation that buys property from DND; AECL; Natural Resources Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Agriculture Canada; Transport Canada; Canada Post; Corrections Canada (P4W in Kingston and Laval Pen). The Canada Lands Company paid 27 million for the...

The Canada Lands Company bought the former RCAF/CFB Downsview from the federal government; Canada Lands paid for 31 acres of the military base with an unsecured, non-interest bearing promissory note, payable in 50 years. Costco and another retailer now occupy that space. At one time, CFB Downsvi...

The Canada Lands Company is a federal Crown corporation that buys property from DND, Agriculture Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Transport Canada, Canada Post, Natural Resources Canada, Atomic Energy of Canada, Veteran's Affairs, Corrections Canada (Prison for Women in Kingston, Laval Pen), ...