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The decision forces homebuyers to pay upfront for natural gas connections. The province says that makes building more expensive in the middle of a housing crisis. Environmentalists say it incentivizes cleaner heating options.
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Next week’s city operating budget talks could see an extra $2 million line item added into the mix to respond to a slow-footed response by the Ontario government to an emergency funding request by Mayor Neil Ellis to build ‘The Bridge’ hub to curb a growing homelessness and tainted-drug crisis unfolding in Belleville.
The mayor of Belleville says that if the province won’t help, it’ll have to find a way to tackle its growing drug and homelessness problem itself.
Mayor Neil Ellis says Belleville is preparing to fund The Bridge homelessness and addictions resource centre a...