The following is a very small sample of Glenn’s media coverage while he served as City Councillor for Ward 38, Scarborough Centre.
2018
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CBC - Metro Morning
Veteran councillor Glenn de Baeremaeker becomes the first municipal politician to announce he won’t run in the upcoming municipal election because of Premier Ford’s plans to reduce the size of city council.
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CP 24
Glenn De Baeremaeker says he won’t run again
After 15 years as the City Councillor representing Ward 38, Scarborough Centre, Glenn has decided not to run in the fall 2018 municipal election. Watch this interview with CP 24’s Nick Dixon, in which he explains his decision.
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CP24
City Council supports the Scarborough Subway!
“City Council has voted 10 times on whether to build the [Scarborough] subway or not build the subway. We voted 10 times; we voted ‘yes’ 10 times!”
2017
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Scarborough Mirror
Granite sculptures bring fresh life to Scarborough’s Knob Hill Park
The ‘Inukshuk,’ ‘Couple,’ ‘Cube’ and ‘Rock’ are all in place now.
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CBC
Expand Toronto exotic animal ban to include penguins, flamingos and cranes, committee says
Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker, a supporter of the move, said the city has to put limits on prospective owners of animals that require expertise. “We protect people and we protect animals,” De Baeremaeker said.
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Scarborough Mirror
Toronto Wildlife Centre to get new $30-million home in Scarborough
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority has approved for Scarborough what may be the largest wildlife hospital in Canada. Scarborough Centre Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker, a longtime TWC supporter and a Conservation Authority board member, said the new facility will be a fabulous place….
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CP24
Toronto launches public consultation to address exotic animal and mobile zoo problem
Staff with the City of Toronto admit that a bylaw on prohibited animals contains loopholes allowing so-called mobile zoos — which take animals around for events ranging from birthday parties to church picnics — to flourish with little oversight, raising concerns about animal welfare and human health.
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CBC
Family of late filmmaker Rob Stewart backs motion by councillors to ban shark fin sale
Glenn De Baeremaeker told CBC News that the support from Rob Stewart’s family is important because the legislation would honour his work. “We have to ban shark fin soup from the City of Toronto and every other city in Canada, because we are slaughtering tens of millions of sharks every year on the seven seas,” […]
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CP24
Transit access vital in Scarborough: Councillor
Mayor John Tory’s vision for Scarborough’s future must deliver better access to transit, says Coun. Glenn De Baeremaeker.
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The Toronto Star
Health board wants energy drinks banned from some city spaces
The Toronto Board of Health is asking council to ban the sale or distribution of caffeinated energy drinks on city-owned property or facilities, including recreation centres, parks, stadiums, public squares and right-of-ways.
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The Toronto Star
Toronto dog lovers are divided after a controversial new bylaw banning some dog collars kicked in this month.
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Scarborough Mirror
South Asian autism group finds new hope in vacant Scarborough building
Started in the basement of a Scarborough home eight years ago, the South Asian Autism Awareness Centre (SAAAC) has grown ever since. The community’s need is that big. Space in the charity’s current Ellesmere Road facility isn’t. Now the City of Toronto is helping SAAAC move to a larger building near Scarborough Town Centre, one […]
2016
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Scarborough Mirror
Scarborough Subway champions want TTC’s likely route changed
Two champions of the Scarborough Subway, Brad Duguid and Glenn De Baeremaeker, both say they dislike the TTC’s likely plan for a subway alignment around Scarborough Town Centre and its preferred spot for a station.
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Toronto Star
Meet the ‘kamikaze’ at the centre of the Scarborough Subway debate
Toronto won’t be a united city until people in Scarborough perceive they are getting their fair share, says Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker.
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Scarborough Mirror
Pickering Airport foes urge Prime Minister Trudeau to add lands to Rouge National Urban Park
Kill the Pickering Airport, and add its remaining lands to the Rouge National Urban Park, a Toronto councillor and others are telling Canada’s federal government.
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CBC
Make Rouge National Urban Park 10,000 acres larger, advocates urge Ottawa
Supporters of Rouge National Urban Park are asking the federal government to add 10,000 more acres to the park by cancelling plans for a Pickering, Ont. airport. “It has taken us decades to get to 20,000 acres. There’s one chunk of land left, where people are proposing to build the Pickering airport, and we’re asking […]
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CBC News
Toronto councillor calls UberX cabs illegal, unfair and unsafe
Toronto City Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker denounces UberX as a Toronto taxi protest is called off.
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Toronto Star
Subway touted as a way to awaken Scarborough’s downtown dream
For 40 years, Scarborough City Centre has been dominated by the mall known as Scarborough Town Centre. Its vast tracts of parking are chained off to repel commuters trying to board transit.
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CP24
New plan for Scarborough subway will allow city to ‘get on’ with project
Mayor John Tory says a revised plan for the Scarborough subway extension that will scrap two of the three planned stations and reinvest $1 billion in savings into the construction of a light rail transit line will allow the city to finally “get on” with the project.
2015
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CBC News
Blocked bike lanes heat up war between Toronto cyclists and drivers
Bicyclists say city should do better job enforcing no-parking rules in protected bike lanes.
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Toronto Star
Living on tree-lined streets has health benefits
Using data from Toronto, researchers find having 10 more trees on your block has health benefits akin to $10,000 raise or being seven years younger.
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CP24
Council gives ‘raccoon-resistant’ green bins the green light
After considerable debate and some product testing inside council chambers, the new “raccoon-resistant” green bins were given the green light at today’s city council meeting.
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CityNews
Local council seeks more outdoor ice rinks
There could be more artificial outdoor ice rinks in Toronto, if Scarborough community council gets its way.
2014
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Toronto Star
Deputy Mayor Glenn De Baeremaeker wants to change Scarborough subway plan
Mayor John Tory asked one of his deputy mayors, Glenn De Baeremaeker, to “champion” the planned Scarborough extension to the Bloor-Danforth subway line. De Baeremaeker says he is fully supportive of the three-stop extension he helped get approved. He has simply concluded that a four-stop extension would be much better.
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Inside Toronto
Scarborough subway extension needs Eglinton-Danforth stop: De Baeremaeker
Scarborough’s appointed “champion” for the Bloor-Danforth subway extension says that extension must be improved. “It’s no use having a subway if no one one can get access to it,” Glenn De Baeremaeker said of the $3.56-billion proposal last week.
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Metro News
Meet Toronto’s four deputy mayors
Ahead of his inauguration, mayor-elect John Tory has announced that he will appoint not one deputy mayor, but four…. Prior to being elected in 2003, De Baeremaeker made his mark as an environmental activist in Scarborough, leading campaigns against development in Rouge Valley and the Oak Ridges Moraine…. De Baeremaeker bikes 20 kilometres to City […]
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Toronto City Council
Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker speaks at Toronto City Council’s 2014 budget debate
2013
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The Toronto Observer
Development fees paying lion’s share of new dog park costs
Most of the tab for three new dog parks in Scarborough is being picked up by developers, Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker says. On Oct. 6, the Ward 38 councillor announced Scarborough will be gaining the three new dog parks.
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Toronto City Council
Why Scarborough needs a subway
Toronto City Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker speaks during Oct 8th, 2013 City Council meeting on why investing in Scarborough subway is the right thing to do for both Scarborough and the entire city of Toronto.
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Toronto Vegetarian Association
Why I’m Veg – TO Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker
For 25 years I have felt absolutely fantastic… I eat spectacular, amazing foods every single day and I protect animals and I protect the environment and I protect my own health.
2011
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CityNews
Toronto bans the sale of cats and dogs in pet stores
Toronto city council voted to ban the sales of dogs and cats in pet stores, becoming the second Canadian city to do so. De Baeremaeker proposed the bylaw, arguing that many of the animals come from puppy mills. “Animal cruelty has to stop,” he added.