By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer Dark clouds hovered over Queen\u2019s Park. Thunder cracked and the sky wept as Caledon grandmother Betty de Groot and Stouffville grandmother Victoria Creese waited anxiously for what this year\u2019s budget might bring. On March 26, they stood alongside fellow members of Grand(m)others Act To Save The Planet (GASP) with a single, urgent plea for the Doug Ford PC government: \u201cDon\u2019t bulldoze our future.\u201d It\u2019s not their own future they fear losing. It\u2019s their children\u2019s, their grandchildren\u2019s. That\u2019s what brought them here \u2014 through wind, through rain, through yet another provincial budget day where hope felt increasingly fragile. Standing shoulder to shoulder, the two women talked about what they hoped to see and about everything they knew was at stake. \u201cI would… <\/p>\n
By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer Dark clouds hovered over Queen\u2019s Park. Thunder cracked and the sky wept as Caledon grandmother Betty de Groot and Stouffville grandmother Victoria Creese waited anxiously for what this year\u2019s budget might bring. On March 26, they stood alongside fellow members of Grand(m)others Act To Save The Planet (GASP) with a single, urgent plea for the Doug Ford PC government: \u201cDon\u2019t bulldoze our future.\u201d It\u2019s not their own future they fear losing. It\u2019s their children\u2019s, their grandchildren\u2019s. That\u2019s what brought them here \u2014 through wind, through rain, through yet another provincial budget day where hope felt increasingly fragile. Standing shoulder to shoulder, the two women talked about what they hoped to see and about everything they knew was at stake. \u201cI would... <\/p>\n