The One Fare program is funded by the Ontario government. For the bus and subway fares waived for riders, the provincial government reimburses the local transit agency.
An internal email sent by the Region of Peel’s top bureaucrat shows the local government has been sent invoices worth $1.5 million for work completed by the Peel Transition Board.
Ontario is considering adding student accommodation to its definition of new housing as it works to hit an ambitious goal of 1.5 million homes by 2031.
With 431 new housing units, the City of Kawartha Lakes achieved 90 per cent of its housing target in 2023. The municipality has been tasked with 6,500 home builds in eight years.
Marianne Meed Ward and fellow politicians expect to reconvene in mid-April for efforts to return some legislative power, reallocated by the province last year, back to council.
The decision by the Ontario Energy Board would increase costs for homebuyers by making them pay up front for the connection instead of over 40 years, Todd Smith said.
Government documents show the advertising campaign was set in motion 'in response to some early negative sentiment toward limited aspects of the plan.'
The four major teachers' unions have been in bargaining for a new contract with the government for more than a year and three say they are planning strike votes this fall.
The creation of an exploratory committee is the clearest sign yet that growing rumours about Bonnie Crombie's plans to run for the Ontario Liberal leadership are on the money.