LONDON, ONT. With Canadians spending more time in their homes over the last year-and-a-half, they’ve been investing in more home improvement projects than ever before. The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) conducted an analysis which shows the City of London is second in Ontario in residential building permits, behind only Brampton. The city issued 2,469 residential building permits in 2020, which is a 27 per cent increase from 2019. “Calls per week are definitely up. They’ve probably doubled since last year,” said owner of London Renovations, Jason McGuire. He is already booking projects for next spring, “I think because people aren’t going on vacations, they’re essentially taking those dollars to improve their home,” McGuire added.
Residents in Portland, Ont., southwest of Ottawa, are concerned expansion plans for a waterfront RV campground could have a negative effect on the local environment and municipality.
Nearly one out of six ground-oriented homes in Toronto has a secondary unit, which totals an estimated 75,000 secondary units across the city. This is according
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There were a few fiscal surprises in the first quarter of 2021 with the City of Timmins being in a “favourable position” heading into the final nine months of the year.
That was the message delivered by Natalie Moore, the city’s treasurer and director of finance and treasurer, during last Tuesday’s council meeting.
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Moore explained Tuesday’s presentation dealt with Fund 1, which is the taxation fund.
“In the first part of the report we highlighted some announcements that came out during the first quarter, so I will just touch on them quickly,” she said.
It's been a long 4-year battle for a Thunder Bay man to get property taxes lowered on his mother's Walker's Lake home. Keith Scott tells us after an a.