CAPP Kemptville Media Releases

OCT 9, 2024: Media Advisory: Group of Kemptville residents attempt to present Ford and Clark with the new U of O Environmental Impact Study on the proposed Kemptville prison

OCT 9, 2024: New report shows environmental impacts of Ford and Clark’s prison plan for Kemptville while local residents vow to keep up their fight to stop it to save farmland

APR 15, 2024: Earth Day Webinar Apr 22, 2024 
CAPP invites journalists, municipal, provincial, and federal officials, as well as environmentalists and members of the public to attend a press conference and webinar

FEB 29, 2024: Judicial review litigants file an application to appeal the court’s dismissal of Kemptville prison case.

FEB 16, 2024: Public interest litigants consider appeal of the decision issued Wednesday by the Ontario Divisional Court to dismiss their judicial review application.

FEB 7, 2024: A precedent-setting case to review the Ford government’s decision to destroy prime agricultural land in Kemptville to build a 235-bed prison will be heard.

JAN 30, 2024: Public interest litigants fighting a push by the Ford government to make them pay $15,000 for trying to get information about prison plan in Judicial Review.

NOV 14, 2023: Superior Court of Ontario will hear oral arguments concerning a motion brought forward by Victor Lachance and Kirk Albert to compel the provincial government to disclose key records on Nov 15, 2023

OCT 11, 2023: Joining Forces Fundraiser in Ottawa headlined by Search the Landfills Advocate and Mohawk Singer-Songwriter Logan Staats 

SEP 6, 2023: CAPP announces the JOINING FORCES concert to raise funds for the Judicial Review

MAY 2, 2023: Judge does not grant the province’s Motion to Dismiss

MAY 2, 2023: MEDIA BACKGROUNDER

MAR 21, 2023: Kemptville residents want judges to weigh-in on the legality of buildng prison on farmland

DEC 6, 2022: Ford government wants to block review of controversial Kemptville prison plan, saying too much has already been spent

SEP 21, 2022: Save don’t pave the farmland

AUG 15, 2022: “Proposed provincial prison in Kemptville is illegal”, Notice of Application for Judicial Review Filed

AUG 15, 2022: MEDIA BACKGOUNDER

JUN 3, 2022: Post-Election rally to stop prison construction and save farmland in Kemptville and across Ontario

APR 11, 2022: Local Residents to Hold Protest Rally Ahead of North Grenville Session

OCT 14, 2021: Rally in opposition to the proposed Kemptville Prison to be held tomorrow at MPP Steve Clark’s Constituency Office in Brockville

JUNE 22, 2021: Local prison opposition groups to release details of an access to information request, respond to latest council statement

DEC 7, 2020: Online panel to discuss saving the Kemptville College Farmlands from prison development, and alternative approaches to community safety and economic developments